Insurance industry groups are lining up quickly with responses to the Bush administration’s proposed overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation’s financial services industries, including insurance. The sweeping regulatory reform proposal announced by Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson …
A woman who lives somewhere near Dartmouth College is suing an online sex site, claiming it identified her in her area even though a nude photograph purporting to be her was not. The woman, suing under the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” …
A jury has awarded a developer $3 million in a lawsuit in which he argued the city of Bozeman, Mont. undermined his plans to purchase and develop land north of the city. The 12-person jury deliberated for about four hours …
The safety of rail tank cars that carry the most dangerous hazardous materials will be improved under the “most sweeping and revolutionary proposal in decades,” according to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters. “This proposal is designed to significantly …
Flood fighter Dave Rogness said he usually gets restless at the end of March, when the National Weather Service releases its second set of river level predictions for eastern North Dakota. “This is the one we watch to really get …
Flames swept through a public housing complex in Kent, Washington forcing 19 people from their apartments. There were no injuries. It took firefighters about 45 minutes to contain the two-alarm blaze at the Valli Kee Apartments. The blaze was reported …
An aging water main that broke three weeks ago at a major downtown Cleveland, Ohio intersection, collapsing part of the street and flooding basements in at least four buildings, also caused other damage, city officials said. The break on March …
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources is launching a program to inspect as many as 4,000 water wells for possible damage from the 2005 hurricanes. The need for this emerged shortly after the storms. But finding the money for the …
Progressive has opened a new service center in Pennsylvania where insureds with damaged vehicles can drop off their cars, get a ride to a rented one and hand off the processing a repair job to the company. Those using the …
The chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Vermont House says he’d like lawmakers to consider lowering the threshold at which a driver is drunk behind the wheel from a blood-alcohol content of .08 percent to a lowest-in-the-nation .05. “We’ve …