It’s been five years since the ground shook violently in and around the overcrowded capital of Haiti, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country, raising a cloud of dust over the smashed city and outlying towns. The devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck …
Richland County Council members are expected to write off nearly $15 million in debt from people who used the South Carolina county ambulance service and didn’t pay their bills. The State newspaper reported a County Council committee unanimously recommended the …
The State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council plans to meet this week in Albany to discuss possible updates in New York’s codes. The Thursday meeting at Empire State Plaza Convention Center is scheduled for a live webcast starting at …
The DuPage Children’s Museum is closed because of heavy water damage. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports the museum announced Friday it would be closed for repairs for an unspecified period. WLS-TV in Chicago first reported that a burst water …
A judge is pushing attorneys for a trial by November in the capital murder and aggravated assault case against the driver accused of smashing into a crowd of South By Southwest festival goers, killing four. State District Judge Cliff Brown …
Two more wrongful-death lawsuits have been filed in connection with a helicopter crash in South America that killed five Americans and two Peruvians two years ago. The Jan. 7, 2013, crash occurred in eastern Peru. The lawsuits filed this week …
Hamblen County officials are trying to determine the source of several mysterious loud booms heard in and around Morristown, Tenn., over the past two years. The latest occurred Tuesday morning. Chris Bell is the director of the Hamblen County Emergency …
The Maryland Transportation Authority has clocked thousands of E-ZPass users speeding through state toll facilities, but the agency isn’t issuing speeding tickets. The Baltimore Sun reports the agency began recording the speed of E-ZPass drivers in 2002. Last year there …
Highway officials say the number of traffic fatalities in Delaware in 2014 was 20 percent higher than 2013. The Office of Highway Safety said in a news release Friday that 125 people were killed in traffic incidents in 2013. In …
A fire that started after an explosion on Saturday at Husky Energy Inc’s 155,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil refinery in Lima, Ohio, has caused extensive damage to a unit at the plant, a fire official said Sunday. No injuries were reported …