The last handful of Federal Emergency Management Agency mobile homes brought to Minot following historic Souris River flooding two years ago are on their way out of the city. FEMA made more than 2,000 of the homes available to residents …
An overnight fire at a farmers’ market in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen killed at least 16 people and injured five others, local authorities said Wednesday. The Shenzhen municipal government said in a statement that the fire broke out …
An Idaho inmate has been ordered to serve 33 months in prison and repay more than $59,000 collected by purporting to be a claimant in class-action lawsuits and bankruptcy settlements across the country. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also …
A legal advocacy group says farm and ranch laborers in New Mexico are covered by workers’ compensation protections because of recent state court decisions. The Center on Law and Poverty applauded on Tuesday a decision by the state Court of …
An insurance agent in central Illinois says he’s noticing an increase in the number of inquiries about renters’ insurance following the deadly November tornadoes. The (Peoria) Journal-Star reports one of the newly insured is Jesse Hunter. The Washington man and …
It’s been five years since a devastating ice storm hit New Hampshire, leaving more than 400,000 residents and businesses without power – the most widespread outage in state history. Emergency management officials said over 200 communities had experienced power loss …
Officials say a gas main leak that led to an underground fire in Oakland, Calif, and forced the evacuation of several homes has been capped. No injuries were reported. Fire officials told the Oakland Tribune the line was capped Tuesday, …
Weak computer passwords and vulnerable software have left some Kansas agencies vulnerable to hackers gaining access to confidential data or internal breaches, according to a new information technology audit. Some of those problems have been identified in the past but …
A $100 million lawsuit has been filed against a Florida billionaire over a 2012 helicopter crash in the Bahamas that killed a prominent tax attorney. The widow of attorney Lance Valdez filed the wrongful death suit Monday in Miami federal …
A national research group said Monday that 28 percent of Mississippi roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 22 percent of bridges in the state need to be repaired, improved or replaced. “The numbers here in Mississippi add up …