A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced Monday in federal court to three years probation on one count of wire fraud. …
Wrestler Hulk Hogan has filed a lawsuit against the Tampa-based Laser Spine Institute, saying the clinic did unnecessary surgeries that damaged his career. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Hogan filed the lawsuit Monday. He filed under his real name, …
The financially troubled Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust will disband, forcing school districts to search for new providers of workers compensation, property and liability insurance policies. The closure means financial consequences for all of the state’s 174 school districts, which …
German police say robbers dug a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as they left to cover their tracks. Berlin police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf says the …
A man who took a $40,000 SUV on an unauthorized test drive in Central Texas has been accused of selling the vehicle for two rocks of crack cocaine. Travis County Jail records show 50-year-old Carlos Sergio Valdes was being held …
The National Weather Service’s office in Wichita, Kansas, will be offering advanced storm spotter training for the first time since it started giving basic sessions more than 50 years ago. The Wichita Eagle reports meteorologist Robb Lawson will present the …
Traffic deaths rose slightly in Nevada last year, but serious injury accidents dropped dramatically and the number of fatalities still remain nearly half as low as they were just six years ago, thanks in part to motorists buckling up. The …
Federal workplace safety officials say a Rochester, N.Y., roofing contractor faces nearly $160,000 in fines for fall hazards at job sites. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it has cited A.M. Stern Inc. for repeated and serious violations of …
Raymond Weiler’s childhood home was ravaged twice: first by Superstorm Sandy three months ago, and then by a city bulldozer on Monday. Weiler hugged his sister as the machine tore into the house where their mother, Veronica Weiler, reared them …
Doyle Ronald Wheeler, 36, of Spokane, Wash., has been charged in Spokane County Superior Court with first degree felony theft for illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits. Wheeler collected benefits from 2008 to 2011 on a workplace-injury claim for a neck …