U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem has introduced a bill that would require the Army Corps of Engineers to notify the public whenever expected high runoff could cause flooding along the Missouri River. South Dakota’s lone member of the U.S. House says …
A central Ohio couple is pressing legal action against a university over the 2008 suicide of their son, saying campus police could have prevented it. The Columbus Dispatch reports that the wrongful-death lawsuit charges that Wright State University campus officers …
Youngstown’s fire chief says there’s no obvious pattern to a series of intentionally set fires that have destroyed at least 10 vacant houses in the northeast Ohio city over the past week. Fire Chief John J. O’Neill Jr. tells The …
The Cincinnati Bengals are asking a federal judge to enforce an order that requires dozens of former players to move their workers comp claims from California to Ohio. At issue is a lawsuit that says players’ contracts require workers compensation …
Attorneys and judges in the southwest North Dakota oil patch are struggling to keep up with a climbing caseload. The Dickinson Press reports that cases in Southwest District Court increased more than 9 percent from 2010 to 2011. Some counties …
A Fort Wayne, Ind., man accused of driving three blocks with four children strapped to the hood of his car while he was intoxicated now faces formal charges, including three felony counts of neglect of a dependent. Aaron Stefanski, 29, …
The State Highway Patrol is marking National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month this May by reminding drivers to be extra careful with more motorcycles out and about as the weather gets warmer. The patrol says crashes involving motorcycles killed more than …
Jurors have convicted a former northeastern Indiana volunteer firefighter of starting a blaze in his neighbor’s cabin and then showing up on a fire truck. The DeKalb County jury reached the guilty verdict Thursday against Lee Yoder of Spencerville on …
The Michigan appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against lifeguards who were accused of gross negligence in the death of a woman at a Detroit-area wave pool. The court overturned a decision by Wayne County Judge Michael Sapala. Lisa Cox …
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied $107,000 in fines against four companies after the death of a painter who fell to his death while working on the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. The agency …
