Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two years ago. New York Party …
Three potential tropical systems stretch across the Atlantic from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula to Africa’s west coast, though none is expected to become a major threat this week, forecasters said. The westernmost of the three, over the Yucatan, has a 20 …
The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office has found no criminal wrongdoing in the July drowning of a 14-year-old boy at Cajun Lagoon water park near Denham Springs. Nick Kissner, of Port Allen, drowned July 30 at the park, located off La. …
There was nothing dirty – or defamatory – about including a Tennessee hotel on an unflattering list on a travel website because it’s clear the inclusion was based on opinions, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The U.S. 6th Circuit …
Albuquerque refuses to pay for damage to a home struck by a city-owned bait car driven by teens. Bait cars are vehicles deployed to catch thieves. Peter Kopczuk says the bait car crashed into his home on July 15, shoving …
Vienna Insurance Group AG, Austria’s biggest insurer, reported second-quarter profit plunged after the worst central European floods in a decade caused damage compensation to triple. The shares fell. Pretax profit for the period ending June 30 dropped 69 percent to …
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the conviction of Alain Guevara, 29, of Lehigh Acres for staging a motor vehicle accident. Guevera pleaded guilty this week at the beginning of a jury trial scheduled in the 20th Judicial Circuit …
Driving without auto insurance could mean losing out on court damages if Missouri lawmakers push forward with an effort to override one of Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes. Under the legislation, drivers lacking insurance would forfeit the ability to collect for …
There is a renewed push to scrap a unique New York state law that makes property owners and contractors liable for most “gravity-related” injuries to workers on construction sites. Some government agencies and contractors say the 1885 Scaffold Law doubles …
A lack of training and experience combined with poor decision-making were contributing factors in the sinking of a commercial fishing boat off the New Jersey coast in 2009 that killed six people according to a report released Friday by the …