Gov. Rick Perry said Friday he may add reshaping the troubled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association to a special legislative session he’s already convened on redistricting, but wouldn’t yet say for sure whether he’ll give lawmakers more to do. Perry called …
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While urging coastal residents to prepare for the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials said Friday that they were doing what they could to get ready for a storm season that includes furloughs in the agencies that forecast and respond to …
What goes up must come down – and if it’s a floating lantern, it poses a serious danger. That’s why the Illinois fire marshal’s office has issued an official notice banning sky lanterns in the state. The pretty but hazardous …
Norwegian police say a 48-year-old man died when he accidentally fell 40 meters (130 feet) into a ravine during an amateur bicycle race. Police spokesman Frode Kolltveit says the cyclist landed on railway tracks below. There were no trains passing …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, seized 3,082 counterfeit items with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of more than $1 million from a Baton Rouge business Thursday. The seized …
The next time meteorologist Mike Bettes talks about the power of tornadoes on The Weather Channel, he can speak from personal experience. Bettes was nursing minor injuries on Saturday, a day after the “tornado hunt” SUV that he and two …
Nationwide, an average homeowner paid $909 for homeowner insurance coverage in 2010, up 36 percent from 2003. Inflation rose 19 percent during the same period. Here’s a look at what homeowners in states bordering the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of …
Oklahoma officials say powerful storms that rolled through the state and spawned several tornadoes also damaged and destroyed homes in El Reno and Union City. An estimate of the number damaged was not immediately available. The Canadian County cities about …
A truck driver who was critically injured in an accident at a giant U.S.-owned mine in Indonesia died Saturday in a hospital. Mine operator PT Freeport Indonesia said liquid ore material flowed into a truck during maintenance activities on Friday, …