The small northern Minnesotan town of Babbitt has lost its only grocery story in a huge fire that caused an estimated $1 million in damage. Babbitt Fire Chief Ryan Scharber tells the Duluth News Tribune the first started about 2 …
A group of Beebe residents who sued Union Pacific over claims the railroad was responsible for flooding in their subdivision have lost their case. The Daily Citizen reports that a federal jury in Little Rock ruled Monday that flood damage …
Atlanta firefighters have put out a fire in a building at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. The blaze was reported around 6 a.m. Wednesday at a building about half a block from King’s tomb. Battalion Chief Todd …
Water from a broken air conditioner hose has soaked the offices of the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. The hose was on the fifth floor of the granite courthouse, which opened in 1888. The water leaked into the …
About 50 firefighters battled a blaze at an apartment building in downtown Madison, Wisconsin Thursday. The fire at the Capitol Hill Apartments still burned more than five hours after it began at 5 a.m. Plumes of black smoke and flames …
Officials in Salt Lake County are preparing for potential flooding this year by filling thousands of sandbags and stockpiling large rocks. The Deseret News reports the county will have about 10,000 sandbags filled by the end of April. The mountains …
Montgomery County fire officials say someone threw an incendiary device into a classroom at Walt Whitman High School, located in Bethesda, causing a small explosion and fire. Assistant Chief Scott Graham of the Montgomery County Fire Department says officials aren’t …
Water caused $9.1 billion in annual homeowner policy property losses from 2007 to 2009 – approximately 23 percent of all homeowner property losses. But up to 93 percent, or almost $8.5 billion, of the cost of water damage could have …