The National Park Service is making $1.5 million available for owners of historic properties that sustained damaged when Hurricane Sandy lashed Virginia in October 2012. The grant money is available to private property owners, organizations or local governments. The properties …
Sunset Drive homeowner Wally Cantrell’s finished basement was destroyed in the June 2008 flood in Columbus, but his flood insurance policy helped cover a good bit of the repairs. Now, Cantrell wonders if he will soon face a related disaster …
Investigators have concluded that the sinking of a Lake Mead yacht owned by Las Vegas entertainer Wayne Newton was an accident, a National Park Service official said Thursday. The Oct. 18 sinking of the 65-foot (20-meter) vessel was traced to …
House Republicans are proposing a revised overhaul of Michigan’s auto insurance system and to guarantee a 10 percent cut in premiums for two years. The plan unveiled Thursday does away with unlimited medical benefits for people catastrophically injured in car …
Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum and his former San Francisco, Calif., landlord have agreed to a $100,000 judgment in Lincecum’s favor, ending a long legal dispute that began with allegations that he left a townhouse he rented during the 2010 season …
An Ohio man was ordered to repay nearly $60,000 in workers’ compensation death benefits. Adam Osterman pleaded guilty Feb. 13 in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree felony. “As the …
BP is pressing a federal court to disallow a $7.9 million Gulf oil spill claim awarded to a Louisiana law firm. Friday’s filing in New Orleans is the latest development in disputes involving the Andry Law Firm, BP and former …
A 27-year-old man has lost his job and Iowa unemployment benefits for using a forklift on a malfunctioning vending machine. The Des Moines Register says Robert McKevitt had deposited money in a vending machine last fall, but the candy bar …
A fast-moving fire that sent up a towering cloud of black smoke destroyed at least seven boats and damaged others Friday at a marina near this northwest Washington community. Six of the seven boats sank after the flames raced through …
North Carolina’s top insurance regulator is scheduling an August hearing for insurance companies to explain their request to raise the cost of homeowners coverage by an average of 25 percent. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin’s office said Wednesday the hearing was …