A group of five public pension funds, including state funds in Ohio and Texas, have won the right to lead investor class-action lawsuits against Bank of America Corp over its ...

The Obama administration is not fighting a nearly $500,000 judgment for a Library of Congress hiree who lost the job while undergoing a gender change from a man to a woman. ...

A Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee in February had feared the animal might hurt someone and described him as mean and so strong that she had to repair his ...

All 14 hospitals in Rhode Island have agreed to adopt a uniform set of precautions to prevent surgeons from operating on the wrong body part or committing other grievous ...

A New Jersey man whose driver's license has been suspended 78 times has pleaded guilty to his 15th drunken-driving offense. Shaun Campbell told a judge in Morris County he ...

A federal judge ruled that a New Hampshire campground wasn't negligent during a 2004 storm that downed trees, injuring a couple trapped in their trailer by a pine tree. U.S. ...

Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received $5.9 million from insurance companies during the first half of 2009, the department has ...

Fargo, N.D., voters have overwhelmingly approved a half-cent sales tax increase for flood protection. The unofficial totals from the June 30 special election showed 11,520 ...

A survey of business leaders in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests that the region's economy continues to show signs of improvement, but job losses persist. The ...

A man has been charged with setting two fires in Hinton, and residents hope the 19-month string of arsons in their town has ended. Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Michael Brown ...

A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store. The complaint by 58-year-old Larry ...

A federal lawsujit has been filed by 66 people in Mobile Couty against the manufacturers of travel trailers they say exposed them to dangerous levels of formaldehyde after ...

Florida returned over $173 million in unclaimed property for the most recent fiscal year-- the largest amount in state history, according to CFO Alex Sink and her Bureau of ...

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said June 30 that it found no problems with the brakes on a tractor-trailer that plowed into stalled cars in an accident on the Will Rogers Turnpike ...

The FBI is now investigating a prank phone call that caused $50,000 in damage to a Conway, Ark., hotel. Conway police spokeswoman Sharen Carter said the FBI is looking into ...

Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion ...

The spouse of an injured employee may be entitled to workers' compensation benefits in exchange for providing home care, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled. According to ...

Two California men have been arrested in connection with auto insurance fraud, the California Department of Insurance reported. Dong Suk Choi of Union City, and Timothy Zen ...

A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to 'B++' (Good) from 'B+' (Good) and the issuer credit rating to "bbb" from "bbb-" of Guam-based Pacific Indemnity ...