A fund established more than 30 years ago to protect the victims of unscrupulous lawyers is being revised to offer even more protections. The Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection is supported by annual fees paid by Tennessee attorneys. According to …
Toyota Motor Corp said it is recalling around 200,000 hybrid SUVs globally including the Lexus RX400h, due to a glitch in the hybrid system’s inverter. The Japanese carmaker also said on Wednesday it was separately recalling around 169,000 vehicles including …
A Pennsylvania prosecutor said Wednesday that he found no criminally reckless behavior related to the collapse of heating and air conditioning ducts in a Pittsburgh-area school cafeteria last year. As a result, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. said …
A new study says man-made global warming may further lessen the likelihood of the freak atmospheric steering currents that last year shoved Superstorm Sandy due west into New Jersey. But don’t celebrate a rare beneficial climate change prediction just yet. …
New York authorities say they’ve charged an employee of a Hudson Valley watch outlet store with stealing more than 800 watches worth nearly $250,000. Police in the Orange County town of Woodbury tell the Times Herald-Record of Middletown that 23-year-old …
A growing sinkhole just south of Louisiana Highway 70 in has raised worries in Assumption Parish about subsidence that could cut off the highway and force commuters and school buses to make a 90-minute-plus detour. In response, the state Department …
A former chairman of the Arkansas Waterways Commission says it is difficult for towboat operators to navigate past Little Rock because of the way a number of bridges are configured. Mike Metzler, a towboat captain who helped wrangle runaway barges …
Despite a rash of deadly train crashes, the railroad industry’s allies in Congress are trying to push back the deadline for installing technology to prevent the most catastrophic types of collisions until at least 2020, half a century after accident …
Law enforcement officials say a greater awareness of risks has led to one of the safest summers on record on Georgia’s lakes and rivers. Authorities say boaters have become more aware of and more careful to avoid the inherent risks …
The Granite Mountain Hotshots battled numerous wildfires across West in recent years, netting reimbursements that paid for most of the city of Prescott’s expenses for maintaining the elite crew which lost all of its members but one in the Yarnell …