Firefighters in southeast Kansas have received trained in ways to rescue people who are engulfed in grain at storage facilities. They practiced last week using a mobile trailer from the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute, which can simulate rescues …
A recent fire in Meridian’s tallest structure has renewed talk about what should be done with the building. The Mississippi town’s mayor Cheri Barry tells WTOK TV that the fire on the 12th floor of the “Threefoot” building remains under …
Police say floods in Indonesia’s capital have killed at least 26 people and sent more than 100,000 fleeing their homes. Jakarta police spokesman Col. Rikwanto said Monday that most of the victims were electrocuted or drowned in floodwaters reaching up …
Assumption Parish officials say scientists have noticed a recent increase in seismic activity near the huge sinkhole at Bayou Corne, La., and worry that it might grow again. Parish emergency preparedness director John Boudreaux tells The Advocate that the increase …
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger has promoted a staff attorney to director of the office’s Consumer Assistance Division. Praeger notes that Jennifer Sourk began working for the Insurance Department in 2007 as a consumer representative in the same division she’ll …
Preliminary figures show nine of the 12 people killed in highway construction zone accidents last year in Tennessee were motorists. The other three were members of construction crews who were working on roads. Tennessee Department of Transportation spokeswoman B.J. Doughty …
Environmentalists are decrying the placement of 18,000 damaged automobiles on a runway at a New York defunct defense plant on eastern Long Island. The vehicles were destroyed by flooding from Superstorm Sandy. The town supervisor in Riverhead disputes the idea …
Irene Sobolov believes the first floor of her house is just that. The federal government and her insurance company say it’s a basement. The semantics, Sobolov has learned, are very expensive. Sobolov and others whose lower-level apartments or businesses sustained …
Three Tennessee counties will begin issuing secure driver’s licenses this spring. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the new process for licenses is being piloted at the Hamilton County Clerk’s office, as well as two driver service centers in Sumner …
Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe has reappointed Philip Alan Hood to the state Worker’s Compensation Commission. Beebe on Friday returned Hood to the panel for a six-year term as the labor representative. The three-member commission administers the state’s workers’ compensation laws …