The state-run property insurer of last resort in Louisiana plans to lower commercial rates. The Advocate reports the bulk of those cuts would benefit the 352 commercial policyholders Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. covers in coastal areas. Those policyholders would …
Schools in Brownsville are closed and shrimping boats are taking cover on the Texas border as Tropical Storm Ingrid moves through Mexico. Ingrid weakened to form a hurricane after making landfall Monday. The storm came ashore near La Pesca, about …
A wildfire that burned 600 acres in Ashley County has now been contained. The Arkansas Forestry Commission said Sunday that the fire started Saturday afternoon and crews fought the blaze until about 3 a.m. Little Rock television station KATV reports …
U.S. farmers who were prevented from planting by rain this year filed crop insurance claims on six times more land than last season, the government said. Farmers filed claims on 8.213 million acres of grains, oilseeds, cotton and sugar as …
Drunk driving arrests are way down in Miami Beach, Fla., but that doesn’t mean people are drinking and driving any less. City police say that a reorganization of patrol zones in 2011 made officers forgo DUI stops to target other …
Engineers on Monday succeeded in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from the Italian reef where it has been stuck since it capsized in January 2012, leaving them cautiously optimistic they can rotate the luxury liner upright and …
South Florida officials are considering improvements for a memorial and mass grave for hundreds of victims of the 1928 hurricane, still the deadliest natural disaster in state history. A fence and marker were installed in 2003 at the West Palm …
A powerful typhoon lashed Japan with torrential rain Monday, leaving two dead as it damaged homes and flooded parts of the country’s popular tourist destination of Kyoto, where 260,000 people were ordered to evacuate to shelters. Typhoon Man-yi, packing wind …
The Chicago Transit Authority has a message for riders: stay off the tracks. The rail and bus service is rolling out a series of new public safety ads Monday. The Chicago Sun-Times says the number of people making their way …
The Associated Press analyzed the federal National Bridge Inventory to focus on the thousands of bridges that have the unfortunate designation of being both “structurally deficient” and “fracture critical” – a combination of red flags that experts say indicates significant …