A massive hailstorm that blanketed the Texas panhandle city of Amarillo on May 28 is proving costly. An estimated 35,000 vehicles and thousands of homes were damaged in the May 28 storm. Insured losses are expected to reach $400 million. …
Months before a Montana state senator and Blackfeet leader allegedly fled a sheriff’s deputy who suspected him of drunken driving, a tribal judge expunged two DUI convictions from the record of the senator’s brother and said the tribe shouldn’t have …
It’s clear that Mark Brown is a smart guy, maybe even borderline brilliant. But what’s astounding is the way prosecutors say he apparently pulled off a major, years long financial fraud, taking in big corporations, courts and attorneys across the …
More than 100 residents of an assisted living center in Chattanooga, Tenn., are being moved to hotel rooms. The move comes six days after an electrical fire forced their evacuation from Patten Towers and into a shelter, where they have …
For the second time in two years, Lambert Airport in St. Louis, Mo., is cleaning up after a tornado caused significant damage to Missouri’s largest airport. Strong storms, including two tornadoes, ripped through the St. Louis region Friday night. The …
The head of a group that represents Kansas emergency responders says it’s time to consider rules for storm chasers in the wake of the deaths of three professional chasers in Oklahoma. Three veteran chasers were killed Friday when a tornado …
The Texas Department of Public Safety will take part in a nationwide commercial vehicle inspection program known as Roadcheck 2013. DPS troopers, inspectors and investigators will join other law enforcement groups in the increased safety effort Tuesday through Thursday. Officers …
Workers are still removing pieces of Washington’s Interstate 5 bridge that fell into the Skagit River on May 23 when an oversize truck hit a girder. A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, Peter Knudson, said Monday in an …
State law enforcement agencies will begin increased enforcement of distracted driving law. The Office of Highway Safety says the campaign will run Tuesday through June 17 to try to reduce the incidence of cellphone-related crashes. The campaign is part of …
Arson is suspected in eight fires reported over a six-block area of San Bernardino, Calif., including one blaze that destroyed a recreational vehicle owned by a Fire Department battalion chief. Fire Capt. Jason Serrano tells The Sun newspaper that the …