The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio says there were 71 train-vehicle crashes last year, down from 112 in 2003. The statistics are in the commission’s Ohio Grade Crossing Statistics Report for 2012, released last week. The report says more than …
Myanmar state media say a bus traveling from Yangon to Mandalay has skidded off a bridge, leaving 11 dead and 16 injured including an American citizen. State newspapers reported Sunday that the accident occurred Saturday when a tire on the …
School district officials in Wichita, say a violent storm that swept through the Kansas city last weekend caused extensive damage to several schools. The Wichita Eagle reports district officials estimate the total damage at $2 million. Insurance is expected to …
Demolition has begun on some of the last buildings in Tuscaloosa, Ala., slated to be torn down after being damaged by a massive tornado in April 2011. The Tuscaloosa News reports about 30 homes and other structures sat virtually untouched …
Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound. The crossings are kept standing by engineering design, not supported with brute strength or redundant protections …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working with South Dakota officials on the reimbursement process following an April snow and ice storm, but individual homeowners will be out of luck in receiving any of the federal money. That’s because at …
Partly for safety reasons, permits are required to hunt for fossils at a St. Paul, Minn., park where a rockslide killed a fourth-grader on a field trip, left one missing and injured two others. St. Paul requires applicants to sign …
Mitchell, a technology, connectivity and information provider to the property/casualty claims and collision repair industries, announced the commercial release of Decision Point 7.4, an automated medical bill review for first and third-party liability adjusters. Developed and delivered using Agile Development …
An injured hunter who “fell” down a 150-foot ravine and a mushroom hunter who went “missing” in the Brighton Recreation Area had to be rescued recently by firefighters and park rangers. Those were the two scenarios played out recently by …
A group of U.S. accountancy professors is backing BP’s fight to rein in compensation it has to pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is threatening to add billions of dollars to its growing bill for the …