California’s high court has ruled that hosts who charge admission to parties may be held legally responsible if a drunken underage guest is hurt or injures someone else. The state Supreme Court said in the unanimous ruling Monday that a …
Pittsburg-based G.S. Jones Restoration and Consulting named Paul E. Long director of Facilities Services. G.S. Jones is a family-owned business providing specialized disaster recovery services for commercial, institutional and residential properties that have sustained fire, water, storm, explosion and other …
This winter has been the wettest in the United Kingdom since detailed data was first published in 1910, and the rainfall total for January was the highest recorded since 1766, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Beginning with a …
Three people, including a doctor and a former police officer, have been indicted on federal charges of operating pain clinics that sold prescriptions for highly addictive drugs. Dr. Joseph J. Mogan III, Tiffany Miller and Donald Nides, a former New …
Officials say state of Ohio snowplows have been involved in 80 crashes so far this winter, with other drivers causing most of them. The Ohio Department of Transportation says plow crashes are up from the past two winters, but there …
The Norphlet Volunteer Fire Department will receive $5,000 after being selected a grand prize winner in the National Fire Protection Agency’s 1,000 Safer Places: the Firewise Challenge. The funding is to be used for activities such as chipping of brush …
Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued an order allowing a decision to stand in an emotional distress claim. According to the Pennsylvania Defense Institute, the high court ruled that an uninjured bystander who witnesses an accident is not required …
The brutal winter has prompted pothole complaints across the state, but they’re so bad in one western Pennsylvania town that the county transit agency is rerouting buses around one especially bad section of road. CamTran, which runs the buses in …
An Italian court has agreed to let the captain of the Costa Concordia go aboard the shipwreck for the first time since it capsized two years ago as part of a new court-ordered search. Consumer groups and lawyers for Capt. …
A Northern California man convicted of his eighth drunk driving charge has been sentenced to a maximum term of six years in prison. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported Monday that Pablo Servin Sanchez’s latest violation was Oct. 3, when …