Gov. Bill Haslam is requesting a presidential disaster declaration for nine Tennessee counties affected by extreme winter weather last month. The federal assistance programs would provide access to a 75 percent reimbursement of the eligible costs to Carroll, Cheatham, Dickson, …
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm released the Insurance Department’s annual Consumer Assistance, Enforcement Action and Fraud Report indicating almost $6.3 million was recovered or saved for North Dakota citizens in 2013 through the department’s intervention. The figure represents money …
Relatives of a University of Alabama student who drowned after falling from the Bama Belle riverboat during a 2012 sorority party have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Tuscaloosa News reports that Tre’ Jones family is seeking at least $10 …
The majority of young adult renters (56 percent) do not have renters insurance, according to a new survey by Nationwide Insurance. Additionally, 75 percent of those without renters insurance don’t realize they can get monthly coverage for as little as …
The widow of a firefighter who was killed in February after a walkway collapsed at a University of Missouri apartment complex has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school’s board of curators. In a petition filed Monday, Leigh Britt …
A captain’s error, compounded by confusing controls and lax safety regulations, led to the January 2013 ferry crash that injured 80 people in Lower Manhattan, federal investigators said Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators said the ferry’s captain, Jason Reimer, …
A bar that opened Monday in the city of Palouse, Wash., has been destroyed by fire. Fire broke out about 4 a.m. Tuesday in the century-old building that housed the Brick Wall Bar & Grill, formerly known as the Palouse …
An unexplained blast this week at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in rural Washington state, which injured workers, forced an evacuation and raised alarm about a potentially large second explosion, could focus attention on the risk of storing massive …
A Nevada jury is awarding comedian George Wallace $1.3 million in damages for a leg injury he says he suffered while performing at a Las Vegas Strip resort in 2007. Tuesday’s verdict from an eight-member jury comes after two weeks …
The state of Illinois is giving local governments $100 million to help repair roads and address other transportation needs following a particularly brutal winter. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the funding during a news conference in Chicago on Monday. The money …