Federal officials have announced $3.6 billion to make public transportation more storm resistant in New York, New Jersey and other parts of the country damaged by Superstorm Sandy. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and other officials announced the funding for …
Fifteen luxury vehicles were destroyed and five others were damaged in a massive fire Monday at a Sudbury, Mass., auto dealership. There were no reports of injuries. The fire at a lot at Herb Chambers Land Rover and Jaguar on …
The owner of an insurance adjusting firm has pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges stemming from a scheme to defraud the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and several insurers. Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old Robert Napolitano, of Clifton, entered his plea Monday. …
A campaign to remind people to stay off city train tracks appears to be paying off as the Chicago Transit Authority said reports of people trespassing on its tracks have dropped significantly in the last 12 months. “We’re pleased to …
The largest mudslide on Northern California’s Mt. Shasta in two decades may be related to California’s prolonged drought, experts said Sunday. The mudslide began Saturday after a glacier holding pockets of water either shifted or melted, releasing water down the …
A new study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming. The …
Emergency management officials in a northwest Ohio area will review policy on sounding tornado sirens after they went off for approaching bad weather. The (Toledo) Blade reports that a dispatcher sounded the alarms at about 7 p.m. EDT Saturday, apparently …
After being hard hit by major flooding in April, the Panhandle town of Gulf Breeze is working to reduce its flood risks. The Pensacola News Journal reports that the city is moving forward with many ideas suggested by a taskforce …
ACE Group announced executive appointments in its high net worth personal lines insurance business, ACE Private Risk Services, naming Clyde Douglas as senior vice president, Claims, and Eileen Castolene as vice president of Operations. Based in Salem, Virginia, Douglas will …
Deb Savely’s lost childhood Bible was discovered in a box from Vol State after 40 years. In 1961, John Savely made a rare shopping trip to buy a Bible for his only daughter’s seventh birthday. He died 10 years later, …