When Amy Derby started working at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s as a registered nurse 13 years ago, she had to lift patients manually with the help of other staff members. Every year, Derby said, it seems as if the number of …
U.S. health officials will board a cruise ship docked in the U.S. Virgin Islands to investigate an illness outbreak that has sickened at least 300 people. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 281 out of 3,050 passengers …
Crews pulled just two more bodies from the ice-covered rubble of a Quebec retirement home on the third day of the excruciating search, bringing to 10 the number of confirmed dead from a massive fire. The effort to recover another …
Organizers of a donation fund set up to help South Dakota ranchers hurt by an early October blizzard are preparing to distribute an additional $3.3 million to producers, after earlier doling out about $775,000. The fund was established by the …
According to fraud statistics compiled by the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority, suspected insurance fraud referrals increased by 9 percent in 2013 while criminal convictions increased 24 percent. In the latest issue of Pennsylvania Fraud Stories, Ralph Burnham, executive director …
KKR & Co., the private-equity firm run by Henry Kravis and George Roberts, is nearing an agreement to buy Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. from Hellman & Friedman LLC and Stone Point Capital LLC for more than $2 billion, according …
Spain is to install new safety measures on its high-speed rail system six months after a serious train crash killed 79 passengers and injured 100 others. Public Works Minister Ana Pastor says video and audio recordings will be made inside …
West Virginia’s governor on Saturday ordered the company at the center of a chemical spill that tainted the state capital’s water supply to remove all above-ground storage tanks from the Charleston operation. A statement released by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s …
Michaels Stores says it is investigating a possible company data security breach that may have affected its customers’ payment card information. The Irving, Texas, company said Saturday that it launched the probe after learning of possible fraudulent activity on some …
A rare dust storm forced state transportation authorities to shut down a 5-mile stretch of a central Illinois highway because of low visibility and a series of crashes. Friday’s dust storm near Carlinville caused several car crashes on Illinois 108, …