Workers in one state office plan to go to as many tailgating events this fall as possible as college football season gets started, but they aren’t going for fun. Alcoholic Beverage Control Enforcement Division investigators will be working to deter …
Federal prosecutors are charging seven people with mail fraud and false claims related to the BP oil spill. U.S. Attorney Pamela Marsh announced that five of those charged had been employees at a Pensacola Beach, Fla., restaurant during the time …
A Gulf Coast business says the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources brought in a boat for repairs and refitting and now the company wants to be paid $93,325 for work on the 45-foot cabin cruiser. That’s according to a lawsuit …
The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in the wrongful death suit brought by the parents of two Virginia Tech students slain during the 2007 campus massacre. According the docket posted Tuesday, the full court is scheduled to …
Fire crews are wrapping the landmark Blue Mountain Lookout in foil to protect it from an encroaching fire. The Missoulian reports the Lolo Creek Complex is just one drainage from the lookout and observatory. To the southwest, a 500-kilovolt Bonneville …
Sioux City and Sunnybrook Community Church have settled with the owners of five homes for damage caused by a water line break two years ago. The Sioux City Journal says the City Council on Monday approved the agreement. The Iowa …
Shelby, N.C., police have charged a woman with driving while impaired after finding her slumped over the wheel of a car stopped in the drive-through line at a fast-food restaurant. The Shelby Star reports that police said officers responded to …
More than half of Fire Island’s beaches and sand dunes were lost during Superstorm Sandy, weakening the island’s ability to withstand damage from future storms, a new U.S. Geological Survey study concluded. Located in the Atlantic Ocean five miles off …
Each summer, microscopic dust particles kicked up by African sandstorms blow thousands of miles (kilometers) across the Atlantic to arrive in the Caribbean, limiting airplane pilots’ visibility to just a few miles and contributing to the suffering of asthmatics trying …
A lawyer for the relatives of victims in a deadly tour bus plunge in southern Italy says an initial technical examination of the wreckage is pointing to a transmission loss and brake failure. Andrea Pianese, a lawyer and technical expert …