Perdue Farms is seeking up to $2.5 million in attorney fees following its victory in a poultry pollution case that had been closely watched by environmentalist and agriculture interests for its potential impact on the industry, a company spokeswoman said …
Junior Seau, one of the NFL’s best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press on Thursday. Results of an NIH …
A southern Oregon family says a refrigerator-sized boulder crashed into their manufactured home, leaving a giant hole in one wall and the huge rock in their living room. The Klamath Falls Herald and News reports that no one was injured. …
The Doctors Company, a national medical malpractice insurer, announced that important tort reforms have been signed into law in Michigan. The Michigan State Medical Society, with significant support from The Doctors Company and its trade organization, the Michigan Insurance Coalition, …
A nighttime fire in a Tucson, Ariz., swimming pool is being called an accident. Fire Capt. Barrett Baker says eight units and 21 firefighters responded to the fire in the boiler room of a building at the Terra Del Sol …
Most of the contributors to a New Jersey town’s fund to rebuild a boardwalk destroyed by Superstorm Sandy are out-of-towners. Belmar has raised $250,000 since its “Buy a Board” campaign began in late November. Mayor Matt Doherty tells the Asbury …
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the government to clean up a lead-polluted creek and pay nearly $4 million in compensation to local villagers as part of a legal battle that lasted almost a decade. Over the past 15 years, …
The mother of an Ohio college student who died at a ski area in Steamboat Springs, Colo., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Authorities have said 19-year-old Cooper Larsh suffocated after falling head first into deep snow …
An attorney has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the widow of an Illinois State Police trooper who was killed in a tractor-trailer crash. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Swansea attorney Thomas Keefe filed the lawsuit on behalf …
Does man’s best friend have sentimental value under Texas law? That’s the question the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday will tackle in a case being closely watched by animal-rights advocates. It involves a Fort Worth family whose Labrador escaped from …