The city of Niota, Tenn., is again without insurance and has shut down most city services. According to The Daily Post-Athenian, only a skeleton staff remains in the city of about 800 residents. Coverage through the Tennessee Municipal League lapsed …
The company that insures most of Kansas’ school districts says it won’t provide coverage for districts that allow armed employees. EMC Insurance Companies has told its agents around the state not to offer policies to school districts that allow concealed …
The National Flood Insurance Program has paid more than 800 claims totaling more than $31 million to property owners in Rhode Island after Superstorm Sandy. The Providence Journal reports that the federal program also rejected about 200 claims. The total …
President Barack Obama has issued a disaster declaration for Michigan to aid the recovery effort from severe spring flooding. Tuesday’s declaration will allow federal funds to flow to 16 Michigan counties to aid with cleanup costs from the flooding that …
A flash flood unleashed by a major thunderstorm has inundated the Austrian village of Hallstatt, which has been awarded special status by the U.N. because of its unique beauty. The storm late Tuesday turned the placid village creek into a …
Investigators in Central Texas have asked for the public’s help in solving about two dozen suspicious fires that could be arson. Waco police and fire officials are seeking tips after blazes in the past 18 months mainly at vacant homes. …
Most jurisdictions hold that every contract form contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing that prohibits either contracting party from preventing or injuring the other party’s right to receive the agreed benefits of the contract. Practical Tools …
He who dies with the most toys wins … unless trapped under all those toys during a fire when rescue workers can’t get to you. The compulsive hoarding of both animals and material goods has become a “grave problem in …
An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze that officials said Tuesday has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people. California Department of Forestry and Fire …
A librarian in a small upstate New York village is back on the job two weeks after she was fired for closing the library 40 minutes early amid a tornado warning. Theresa Marchione shut down the Round Lake Library on …