A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that 47-year-old Connie Knight, formerly …
The Alabama Supreme Court has reinstated a $3.2 million malpractice verdict awarded to the estate of a Montgomery woman who died in 2005 after being treated at the Baptist East Emergency Room in Montgomery. Lauree Durden Ellison had visited the …
About 1,500 members of the South Carolina Army National Guard are taking part in five days of training involving potential responses to a natural disaster. Staff Sgt. Tracci Gorgan says the exercise begins Friday and runs through Tuesday. Units are …
A mother and daughter have been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the older woman’s home in Stratford. Police tell the Connecticut Post they became suspicious after finding valuables and all the food from the mother’s refrigerator in …
Fifteen people were injured, 10 of them hospitalized, when an escalator packed with people at San Antonio’s convention center malfunctioned and jerked to a stop, causing a tumble of bodies down the steps. The incident happened about 1 p.m. Wednesday …
BNSF Railway and ADM have settled a lawsuit filed over injuries suffered by a railroad conductor during a Lincoln, Neb., accident in 2008. Court records say BNSF sued ADM in September 2010 to recover the $405,000 it paid conductor Robert …
Since an earthquake rattled central Virginia and the East Coast nearly two years ago, more than 450 aftershocks have been recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. The latest occurred Wednesday when a magnitude-2.3 quake struck about 6 miles south-southwest of …
The nation’s largest retail industry organization fired back Friday, outlining reasons why a legally binding global pact to make Bangladesh clothing factories safer would expose merchants to undue legal exposure. The move came as U.S. retailers face increasing pressure from …
Country star Randy Travis has filed a lawsuit to prevent two state agencies from releasing a patrol car video of his 2012 DWI arrest in North Texas. The Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday that the lawsuit filed in Austin names the …
University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have developed a website that walks healthcare providers through the challenging transition from the current International Classification of Diseases — ICD-9 — to the new ICD-10. Doctors, hospitals and all other healthcare providers have …