Prosecutors have filed 81 formal charges against a former Livingston Parish contractor accused of falsifying billing invoices and theft related to parish Hurricane Gustav cleanup work. The Advocate report district attorney’s office filed a bill of information Tuesday charging Corey …
Workers at a construction site for the new FBI headquarters in South Florida have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in copper wire. The three men work for a subcontractor at the site in Miramar, west of Fort Lauderdale. …
A jury has recently awarded an additional $18 million to a woman whose botched surgery at a Wenatchee, Wash., hospital left her unable to speak. The Wenatchee World reports that Becky S. Anderson was having polyps removed from her vocal …
A Sacramento Countym Calif., jury has awarded nearly $32 million to a woman who was paralyzed and suffered brain damage in a 2010 traffic collision. The Sacramento Bee reports Saturday that jurors found Silva Trucking must pay 56-year-old Debra Hackett …
The fatal crash of a truck tractor into a horse-drawn Amish buggy over the weekend underscored the continuing danger faced by those who travel the state’s rural roads in animal-driven vehicles. Since Oct. 1 there have been at least five …
The Memphis Fire Department in Tennessee has inspected bay doors at all its stations after firefighters missed calls because they were trapped inside their station during a power outage. The Commercial Appeal reports a fatal house fire occurred on Nov. …
Drivers would be barred from talking on their cellphones while in a construction zone under a bill being circulated in the Wisconsin state Legislature. Republican Sen. Jerry Petrowski, of Marathon, emailed the bill on Friday seeking co-sponsors. The ban would …
The devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s Tohoku region in March 2011 was touched off by a submarine earthquake far more massive than anything geologists had expected in that zone. Now, a team of scientists including McGill University geologist Christie Rowe, …
A two-day undercover operation in Manatee County focusing on unlicensed contractors that failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance, resulted in the arrests of nine men, according to CFO Jeff Atwater. The operation was conducted by the Florida Department of Financial …
State workplace safety officials probing the deaths of 19 firefighters in an Arizona wildfire were denied access to key witnesses as they worked to determine the tragedy’s cause, according to a letter from a federal agency. Investigators with the Arizona …