The U.S. Agriculture Department has designated 15 Washington counties as primary natural disaster areas due to extreme weather conditions in the first seven months of 2011. Sen. Maria Cantwell says farmers in those areas are eligible to apply for USDA …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has expanded its wildfires disaster declaration area for Texas to include 119 counties. Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday announced FEMA has granted the state’s request to increase the original 45 counties eligible to seek disaster …
Officials say user fees to maintain the radio system used by public safety agencies to communicate won’t cover the cost of maintaining weather alert sirens. The sirens sound during a tornado threat or other emergency in Calhoun and Talladega counties. …
A man who suffered a broken neck after twice falling off a bench at the city-county detention center in Livingston in May 2009 has settled a lawsuit against three law enforcement agencies and the arresting officer. William Meigs reached a …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says residents in Franklin and Johnson counties whose property was damaged by tornadoes or severe storms that struck May 24 through May 26 have two weeks left to seek government disaster assistance. FEMA officials said …
Officials in two counties in north-central Ohio say they’re widening a possible arson investigation after finding evidence of at least 27 suspicious fires since February. The fires have hit abandoned homes, barns, outbuildings, fields and ditches in Hardin and Union …
Six Kansas counties have been added to a state disaster declaration generated by storms and flooding. The Hays Daily News reported that Gov. Sam Brownback signed the disaster proclamation Tuesday for the six counties, which are Rush, Barton, Hamilton, Kearney, …
The record number of Texas counties with outdoor burn bans has reached 236 as the drought continues. A Texas Forest Service map Thursday showed southern and northeast parts of the state as the only areas without burn bans. Texas has …
Gov. Jack Dalrymple said Morton, Renville and McHenry counties have been declared eligible for individual flood aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. President Obama earlier approved individual assistance for homeowners and business owners in Ward and Burleigh counties. Dalrymple …
Gov. Bill Haslam says U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has designated 15 counties a natural disaster for agriculture as a result of storms and flooding in April and May. Counties designated as primary natural disaster areas include Dyer, Giles, …