Attorney General Jim Hood says three Biloxi, Miss., residents have been arrested and charged with insurance fraud. Hood’s Friday news release said 47-year-old Rosemary Henderson, 38-year-old Lavon Donnell Cherry and 30-year-old Johnny Lewis were arrested Thursday by investigators with the …
The city of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is replacing a fire station that was destroyed by the killer tornado that devastated the town on April 27, 2011. Officials broke ground on the building Thursday in the Alberta community, which was one of …
St. Charles County, Mo., drivers pulled over at several recent weekend safety checkpoints received something other than the usual verbal warnings, traffic citations or even tickets for drunken driving. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that private government subcontractors working …
Financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which saw 658 of its 1,000 employees killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, has nearly completed a settlement with American Airlines and insurance carriers, according to documents filed in federal court. A final signed agreement …
State fire officials say a blaze that tore through a Crisp County home and killed a 76-year-old man has been ruled accidental. State Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Ralph Hudgens says Moses Jimmerson was killed in a fire Wednesday afternoon …
President Obama on Friday declared a major disaster in California as a result of the Rim Fire that burned for more than two months, ravaging 400 square miles of the state. The declaration means that federal funding will now be …
Three men have been charged with federal crimes in an arson-for-profit scheme at a Providence, R.I., apartment building. The Providence Journal reports that an indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Providence charged Abraham Kerkula of Pawtucket and Gbabia …
After a four-year legal battle, Toyota is entering settlement talks on nearly 400 state and federal lawsuits that allege sudden unintended acceleration problems with its vehicles led to deaths and injuries. Joint motions filed late Thursday in U.S. District Court …
Officials with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo say a zebra attack that seriously injured a veteran zookeeper was the result of human error. The zoo released a summary of its safety investigation into the incident on Friday. It says the 900-pound …
The operator of a 71-year-old northern Idaho silver mine that was beset by fatal and injury accidents two years ago has been hit by another lawsuit, this time filed by four miners who say managers dispatched them deep underground into …