Two Greensboro, N.C., men have been arrested and charged with taking $50,000 worth of socks from a HanesBrands Inc. distribution center in Kernersville. The arrests were part of an investigation of the loss of about $2 million in merchandise in …
A $1.2 million deal in a federal lawsuit over the alcohol-withdrawal death of a woman who was in custody at the Lenawee County jail in Adrian has been approved. Thirty-seven-year-old Brenda Sue Smith was arrested for parole violation in 2007. …
A new Joplin High School that will replace one destroyed by the May 2011 tornado is on track to be opened in time for the start of school next year, and two elementary schools and a middle school are scheduled …
Karen Clark & Company (KCC), independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, today issued a report, in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane, examining the impact of a comparable storm making …
According to Travelers’ Consumer Risk Index, 63 percent of Americans believe their world is becoming a riskier place, while only 15 percent feel it is less risky. The greatest levels of concern focus on their financial security, loss of privacy …
The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has proposed an average 2.7 percent rate increase for 2014 workers’ compensation premiums, an increase of less than 2 cents per hour worked. Over the past two years, workers’ compensation surveys have shown …
Officials at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have discovered a $3.4 million theft by an employee who died in a December car accident. School leaders told The Boston Globe an internal investigation found that for five years financial analyst …
Three buildings were a total loss in Friday’s blaze that damaged several businesses, apartments and a mosque in an older part of downtown Winona, Minn., Fire Chief Curt Bittle said. Bittle told reporters the fire apparently began in the Winona …
It’s back to the trial court for a Vermont case in which a woman lent her car keys to a man, who then gave them to the woman’s boyfriend, who then got into a fatal accident. The Vermont Supreme Court …
An appraiser sent by the state recently assessed the value of Bob and Pat Smith’s house, nearly a year after floodwaters from Superstorm Sandy reached midway up the living room walls. Like the 75 other homeowners living near the South …