September 11, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A northern Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay nearly $191, 000 and stop hiring children under 16 to settle a federal lawsuit labor regulators filed after a teenager was killed on the job this summer and …
September 8, 2023
South Dakota regulators on Wednesday denied a construction permit for a carbon dioxide pipeline project, one month after a North Dakota panel did the same to a similar project by another company. Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to build a 1,300-mile …
September 6, 2023
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — The owner of an Iowa apartment building that collapsed in May, killing three people, has filed a lawsuit that blames an engineering company for not warning the building was structurally unsound and that residents should be …
September 6, 2023
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A pier filled with people celebrating Labor Day on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus partially collapsed into a lake, leaving one person hospitalized and slightly injuring about 20 others, officials said. Video shot from Lake Mendota`s …
August 31, 2023
A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data breach. Attorneys for the two plaintiffs said in …
August 24, 2023
The U.S. workplace safety regulator said on Wednesday it was investigating a recent chemical solvent leak at an Ohio battery plant jointly owned by General Motors and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution The joint venture, Ultium Cells LLC, said on …
August 21, 2023
Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge ruled a former railroad employee could proceed with a lawsuit claiming he had been harassed for years by managers who said he reported …
August 4, 2023
A dump truck driver last year may have never seen an oncoming Amtrak train before it was too late, federal investigators concluded in a report, finding that a steep, poorly designed railroad crossing in rural Missouri contributed to last year’s …
August 1, 2023
Amendments to Michigan’s no-fault law passed by the state legislature in 2019 do not allow auto insurers to cut fees or limit hours of attendant care provided to auto accident victims who were injured before the changes took effect, the …
July 31, 2023
A federal appellate court revived a potential class action lawsuit against PayPal filed by a disgruntled charity donor who alleges that the payments company misled her and others about how their charitable contributions would be used. The 7th Circuit Court …