Zeb Postelwait always wanted to build a treehouse for his sons. He got the chance last summer after moving into a Wenatchee, Wash., home with a big tree in the front yard. Two months later he received his first notice …
Customers of a Birmingham, Ala., jeweler are getting about $70,000 in refunds because of the Super Bowl. Jeff Dennis Jewelers in Gardendale ran a promotion offering a cash refund on purchases if either Denver or Seattle scored a safety during …
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee says it has reached a settlement with one of its major insurers as it works to resolve its bankruptcy case. The Wisconsin archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in 2011, saying it wouldn’t have the money to pay …
Vermont’s largest city has purchased an insurance policy for protection against potential lawsuits in connection with its airport. While exploring the legal possibility of banning F-35 fighter jets from the Burlington International Airport, city attorney Eileen Blackwood discovered Burlington wasn’t …
A federal grand jury has indicted a former Logan, Va., city councilman and three others on claims they purchased a vacant building, inflated its worth on an insurance policy and burned it down. Indictments unsealed on Tuesday name former councilman …
The Indiana Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a woman convicted of fatally poisoning her estranged husband to collect on an insurance policy. Bartholomew County Prosecutor Bill Nash tells The Republic the court’s refusal last week her …
The University of Kansas athletics department has collected nearly $500,000 so far of the estimated $2 million lost in a ticket scandal involving seven employees. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that $250,000 comes from the department’s insurance policy against employee theft. …
Churchill Downs Inc. plans to stop paying the trade association representing jockeys to fund riders’ off-track needs, such as benefits or health insurance coverage that’s not racing related. Churchill spokeswoman Julie Koenig Loignon told The Courier-Journal that the company’s four …
Three men have been convicted in a foiled 2009 plot to murder a woman so one of them could collect a $300,000 insurance policy. A Davidson County Criminal Court jury on Monday found Brian Dunkley, Donte Chestnut and William Irish …