Melanie Bassi’s mother promised to wake her up from a nap with a phone call on Christmas Day six years ago, but instead, she received a message from police in her Connecticut hometown. A neighbor was concerned about a large …
Vermont’s Federal Emergency Management Agency office closed its doors Friday after more than two years of helping the state recover from flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene, but the agency will continue to process property buyouts and reimbursements through its …
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) announced that Michael Clingman will be joining WCRI in January as a regional director. Clingman will be based in Oklahoma. “Mike joins our new team of three regional directors who will be the face …
Liberty Mutual Insurance is working with National Equipment Register (NER) to provide its Inland Marine Contractors’ Equipment customers increased protection from equipment theft. The insurer is now offering an endorsement that waives the theft deductible up to $10,000 if customers …
BP Plc delayed efforts to cap its Macondo well in 2010 by misrepresenting how much oil was gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, lawyers for spill victims said, urging a judge to find the company grossly negligent. BP was unprepared …
Removing trees from part of Interstate 385 has reduced the number of crashes and deaths along a stretch of the highway in Laurens County, according to the South Carolina Department of Transportation. Workers cut down trees within 50 feet of …
Jurors have awarded $390,000 in damages to the estate of a teenager fatally shot in 2011 at an after-hours party in Tacoma, Wash. The News Tribune reports that the estate of 17-year-old Billy Ray Shirley III sued Bill’s Towing and …
Two West Virginia agencies should force coal operators to install detectors that automatically shut down mobile machinery in mines when people get too close, according to a lawsuit. Mountain State Justice lawyers filed an emergency petition Friday with the state …
Two apparent tornadoes touched down in Arkansas on Saturday, injuring at least five people and damaging about two dozen homes. St. Francis County Sheriff’s dispatcher Leslie White said a suspected tornado damaged three homes and injured three people late Saturday …
Authorities say icy roads caused by freezing rain helped cause at least three dozen accidents in the Reno area. Sgt. Frank Hernandez of the Nevada Highway Patrol says most of the crashes were on Interstate 395 late Friday and Saturday. …