Seatbelt use among Louisiana motorists is up this year. The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission says an annual survey to determine how many people buckle up showed the percentage had risen to 82.5 percent of drivers and front-seat passengers following the …
The family of a Minnetonka native is suing the organizers of a wilderness expedition over the accidental death of the man during a hike in India. Twenty-year-old Thomas Plotkin slipped on a rain slickened path in the Himalayas in September …
Relatives of two people killed in a head-on crash on the Pell Bridge two years ago have sued the state Turnpike and Bridge Authority, accusing it of negligence. The Providence Journal reports that the lawsuit says the agency, which owns …
A federal appeals court is allowing a Texas man to sue southern New Mexico officials for not promptly providing him medical care after being arrested for drunken driving although he was suffering from West Nile virus. The Denver-based 10th U.S. …
A Mississippi woman has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge involving $17,000 in oil-spill recovery money. The Sun Herald reports Kim Marie Isabell is free on bond pending sentencing Jan. 28. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in …
A jury has awarded more than a dozen firefighters a total of $3.7 million in a case where the San Francisco Fire Department was accused of age discrimination. The San Francisco Chronicle reports jurors voted 9-3 Monday in favor of …
The owner of a former central Idaho hotel must pay a $21,000 fine for asbestos safety violations after failing to test for the cancer-causing material before demolishing the century-old structure. The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday BBA Winchester LLC, owned …
The Department of Financial Regulation says a Wisconsin-based insurance company has paid nearly $16,000 in restitution to Vermont auto insurance customers whose damage claims were not evaluated properly. An investigation by the department determined that Dairyland Insurance Co. had inaccurately …
Many of us make light of that relatively short drive home. But getting behind the wheel when you’re sleepy can cost lives and lead to imprisonment and a hefty fine. Drowsy drivers number in the millions. In a 2011 National …
A year after Superstorm Sandy drove Deborah Dinan from her Milford home, she lives above a loud bar and is often reduced to tears as she struggles to return to her flood ravaged home. Dinan, a 59-year-old former nurse on …