Prosecutors say a building contractor has pleaded guilty to attempted arson in an East Texas dispute over competition for methadone clinic patients. A federal magistrate in Tyler on Wednesday accepted the plea from 54-year-old Daniel Kubisty. No sentencing date was …
The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has cited the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for 15 worker safety violations following an investigation into the drowning death of a DNR diver last summer. The citation carries a proposed penalty of …
An eastern Idaho jury has found not guilty a man charged with negligence and gross negligence while operating a boat after the 14-year-old girl he was pulling on a tube behind his boat died when the tube collided with another …
Charges have been filed against an Oklahoma City couple for allegedly devising a scheme to obtain insurance money, according to Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s Workers’ Compensation and Insurance Fraud Unit. Hai Thanh Tien, 41, a licensed chiropractor who operates Extended …
More time and money will be needed to remove the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the rocks off Tuscany where it capsized last year, in part to ensure the toxic materials still trapped inside don’t leak into the marine sanctuary …
Failing brakes were the cause of a traffic accident in Haiti that killed four Michigan residents on a medical mission, Haitian police said Saturday. Garry Victor of Haiti’s national police department said the Toyota Landcruiser carrying the four Americans and …
Relatives of four passengers killed last month with Jenni Rivera in a plane crash in Mexico filed a lawsuit against Rivera’s company Thursday alleging the singer was negligent when she hired a faulty Learjet 25. The civil lawsuit filed in …
Federal officials say they’ll provide an Alabama town with $840,000 to fund the long-delayed demolition of buildings that were badly damaged in the 2011 tornado outbreak. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says the grant will cover 90 percent of the …
The First Party Claims Conference (FPCC) has gone bicoastal for the second year. FPCC West, a one-day seminar that is similar in format to the two and a half day October east coast event, will take place on March 12 …
Businesses and individuals who claim BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company’s class action settlement with a team of private plaintiffs’ attorneys, court-supervised claims administrator Patrick …