M.I.A. said she’s been subjected to a year and a half of legal harassment by the National Football League since she extended a middle finger while performing alongside Madonna at the American football championship Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in …
Police in Utah say they’ve arrested two people accused of an elaborate scheme to steal expensive graphing calculators. The Salt Lake Tribune reports police caught on to the operation when the manager of a Salt Lake City Rodeway Inn hotel …
The most likely cause of a fatal house explosion in Murray is a leak in a liquid propane line, the Kentucky State Fire Marshal said. Fire Marshal Bill Swope told the Murray Ledger & Times it appears that a leak …
A 74-year-old man is recovering from an accident at the Kansas State Fair that put him in the hospital. Valley Falls resident Earl Stevens suffered broken facial bones and other injuries in the accident two weeks ago. The Hutchinson News …
The number of laborers and others killed in accidents on Illinois farms is falling. The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that the number of fatalities in the 12 months ending June 30 was the lowest in 35 years. According to the insurance …
Florida’s largest insurer could be shifting thousands more of its policyholders away from the state-created company and into private insurance companies. The head of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. announced Friday that as many as 200,000 customers from across the state …
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s concerned about new federal flood insurance rules. Warren is pressing Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate about the impact of the new rules on families in Massachusetts and across the country who have …
More than two months after a tanker truck crash and subsequent fire damaged a Los Angeles, Calif., freeway interchange, Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency to free up funding to finish repairs. The governor issued the declaration …
Commercial driver license holders in Wisconsin face a Jan. 30 deadline to provide the state with information required by the federal government in order to remain on the road. The Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles is reminded CDL holders that …
Somewhere out west in recent days, cross-country truck driver Warren Greeno passed the 4-million-mile mark without an accident. Wal-Mart celebrated the achievement Saturday and Greeno didn’t have to drive in to join the party. “There was a half-dozen times there …