A group focused on pipeline safety in Iowa is offering training. The Iowa Pipeline Association is conducting training scenarios throughout February at various locations around the state. The training sessions began Monday in Spencer, and several more are scheduled through …
Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation Tuesday that would require California gun owners to buy liability insurance to cover damages or injuries caused by their weapons. Similar bills have been introduced in other states after the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. They include …
Motorists caught driving without insurance could have their license plate confiscated under legislation being pushed by Oklahoma’s Insurance Commissioner. Commissioner John Doak is promoting separate bills that would allow law enforcement officers to remove an uninsured motorist’s tag and replace …
The Louisiana Department of Insurance is investigating reports that insurers are not renewing homeowner’s policies of residents evacuated due to the large sinkhole in Assumption Parish. Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon told The Advocate that his office has not received a …
A northeast Kansas man is dead after a crane he was operating at a construction site tipped over and he was pinned beneath it. The Coffey County Sheriff’s Office says 51-year-old Eric Spaar of Holton was killed in the accident …
Authorities say a fire in a bathroom at Lafayette High School is being investigated as arson. Classes at the Mississippi school resumed Tuesday. Lafayette County School Superintendent Adam Pugh tells the Oxford Eagle that the fire was started in the …
Private and federal mine safety inspectors can be held liable and sued when a negligent inspection results in the wrongful death of a coal miner, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in handing a victory to the widows of two …
Power fluctuations during rehearsals for the Super Bowl led organizers to use generators at Sunday’s game, which was then interrupted for 35 minutes by a partial blackout, a National Football League official said. About half of the Superdome in New …
Software makers Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp said they disrupted a global cyber crime operation by shutting down servers that controlled hundreds of thousands of PCs without the knowledge of their users. The move made it temporarily impossible for infected …
Allstate Corp’s quarterly profit fell 45 percent on losses from Superstorm Sandy, but the home and auto insurer said it has paid out about 95 percent of Sandy claims and is seeing rate increases across businesses. The largest publicly traded …