The LSU AgCenter’s LaHouse Home and Landscape Resource Center will showcase hurricane and flood-hardy features for homes at an open house on July 27. The open house from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. will focus on improvements that minimize potential damage from …
The pressure drop ahead of a tornado that destroyed the tiny South Dakota town of Manchester 10 years ago remains the largest ever recorded. As the half-mile-wide twister approached the prairie community on June 24, 2003, the air pressure dropped …
Sexual misconduct claims at prisons and regional jails have cost West Virginia nearly $12 million over the last decade. Board of Risk and Insurance Management records obtained by the Charleston Daily Mail show that prisoners and their lawyers received more …
A jury has convicted the owner of two Kentucky pain clinics on 21 federal charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy. The Lexington Herald-Leader cited a statement from U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey in reporting that the jury returned …
Insurance policies assign several duties to the insured in the event of an occurrence that may result in a claim. For example, insureds must notify the insurer of any occurrence that may result in a claim and provide details of …
Officials in at least two Arkansas cities are asking their residents to let them know if they have storm shelters, while a third says he wants to update his city’s maps of the shelters. City officials in Searcy have asked …
A new report says that West Virginia has some of the nation’s worst bridges. The report from Transportation for America ranks West Virginia as having the 14th worst rate of deficient bridges in the nation. West Virginia improved since the …
Safeco Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Insurance company, began selling its personal lines insurance products in Massachusetts this month. Safeco provides a broad suite of auto, home, motorcycle, watercraft, RV and other specialty insurance products through 400 independent agencies across the …
The owners of a landmark restaurant in eastern Indiana hosted nearly 70 firefighters for a free meal, thanking them for their work putting out a blaze that badly damaged its building a year ago. The firefighters from some 10 departments …
A southwest Missouri woman has been sentenced to four years of probation for defrauding victims of the 2011 Joplin tornado. The Lebanon Daily Record reports that 57-year-old Gloria Schoeller of Springfield was sentenced this month for unlawful merchandising practices and …