A magnitude 6.1 earthquake jolted Indonesia’s popular resort island of Bali on Thursday, injuring more than 50 people and sending others fleeing from their hotels and houses in panic. Ceilings caved in at two high schools and several ancient Hindu …
Engineers are removing parts of a pinnacle at the top of the Washington National Cathedral that were damaged by the August earthquake. Scaffolding was built around the spires of the top of the tower, about 330 feet high Thursday. Sections …
The Cincinnati Insurance Companies’ property casualty group expects its third-quarter results to include pre-tax catastrophe losses of approximately $88 million to $98 million, with its commercial lines insurance segment accounting for almost two-thirds of that total. Steven J. Johnston, president …
A Dracut, Mass., woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she was drunk when she crashed a van transporting special needs adults in Billerica last week. Melissa Rich pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Lowell District Court to charges including …
A Michigan man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges he agreed to buy two tour buses from a Vermont company for $600,000, but then took them without paying for them. Fifty-four-year-old Seth Murdock of Detroit entered the pleas Tuesday …
German police say two more attempted arson attacks on Berlin’s railway network have been thwarted after workers found suspicious devices near the tracks. It brings the total of attempted arson attacks in and around Germany’s capital to five since Monday. …
Farmers in northern Idaho believe they were the target of arson after a string of fires in recent months consumed $142,000 worth of baled hay. Fire officials have deemed the four blazes reported since July as suspicious and have launched …
A lawsuit filed by residents in southeastern Kentucky blames a mining company’s surface mining practices for stoking a flood that killed a man and damaged homes in Knox County this summer. The suit against Nally & Hamilton Enterprises includes more …
A decision is pending from the Mississippi Supreme Court in another wind vs. water case, this one involving a Pascagoula home subjected to 6.3 feet of storm surge. The National Flood Insurance Program paid Jackson County sheriff’s deputy Michael Robichaux …
Dubuque County recreation areas face over $600,000 in damage from heavy rains that caused major flooding this summer. Storms dumped over a foot of rain in late July, flooding basements and roads – and leaving behind a mess in several …