Investigators will assume the cause of a massive apartment fire that reduced a Norwich, Connecticut apartment complex to smoldering rubble is suspicious unless proven otherwise, a police official said. “They’re going to treat it as suspicious until they find out …
Indiana Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, recently announced that it is taking its Safer Schools Seminars to Iowa and Minnesota in May. Designed for superintendents, principals, resource officers, and risk managers, these free, half-day seminars inform school …
Thousands gathered at St. Patrick’s Cathedral for a Mass organized by New York City construction workers to remember more than two dozen of their colleagues killed on the job in the past year. The memorial comes barely a week after …
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine visited the city of Suffolk to comfort storm victims and to survey the damage caused by severe weather that hit central and southeastern Virginia. The governor walked through neighborhoods where homes were badly damaged and went …
Weary residents of the southern Virginia city of Suffolk, some awakening in emergency shelters, braced themselves to see what was left of their homes and livelihoods Tuesday after three tornadoes smashed houses, piled cars on each other and injured more …
A rash of sewer grate thefts around northern Kentucky has police worried about safety as scavengers seek scrap metal to sell. Thieves stole at least 26 sewer grates this month from streets in Newport, Covington, Fort Thomas, Wilder, Southgate, Bellevue …
West Virginia’s second largest city has voted to ban all-terrain vehicles from public roads and property. Huntington’s City Council voted unanimously April 28 to endorse the measure that was sought by police who were concerned about children using ATVs on …
A bill pending before the governor would require all private and public companies that run underground lines to join Mississippi’s “One Call” network. Gov. Haley Barbour has until May 12 to act on the bill, which passed the House and …
An unusual alliance of insurance and environmental groups is urging lawmakers to focus on policies that encourage property mitigation and environmental protection in catastrophe-prone areas, rather than expanding the government’s flood insurance or “bailing out” Florida’s catastrophe plan. The coalition, …
The state board of Coal Mine Health and Safety plans to revisit West Virginia’s regulations for sealing abandoned sections of coal mines. State law requires the board to review West Virginia’s regulations because the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration …