The Gage County Board of Supervisors has again rejected a grant to hire an attorney to prosecute alcohol-related crime. The board says it would cost the county too much in the long run because the grant did not cover insurance …
Arson investigators are probing the cause of a fire that destroyed an Evanston fireworks store. Uinta County Fire District Chief Don Bodine says the fire broke out early Wednesday morning. It destroyed the Jolly Jacs building and an adjacent semi-trailer …
A Pittsburgh professor who worked in the Clinton administration has been charged with drunken driving three times in eight days, and police say they’re hoping to get him off the street before he hurts someone. Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeffrey …
An upstate New York factory worker is dead after he was crushed by a five-ton piece of equipment. Authorities say Eric Lehman died when a wedge-shaped piece of steel casing fell from its support stands at the Alstom Air Preheater …
Scientists at Oregon State University say a new analysis of a 200-mile-long fault line off the southern and central Oregon coast shows it is more active than the San Andreas Fault in California, blamed for the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. …
Jurors convicted a former nuclear plant engineer of hiding information from government regulators about the worst corrosion ever found at a U.S. reactor. Prosecutors said Andrew Siemaszko and two other workers lied in 2001 so the Davis-Besse plant along Lake …
Authorities say storm damage in Georgia counties, Hall and Jackson, may have been caused by apparent tornadoes. The severe weather caused no deaths. In Hall County, a funnel cloud was spotted and, according to Hall County Fire Marshal Scott Cagle, …
A judge has upheld the verdict in the case of a North Dakota couple who were awarded more than $2 million in a lawsuit against an insurance company. Timothy and Sylvia Moore of Mountain sued American Family Insurance after fire …
Counterfeit auto insurance cards have been a problem for years, say Connecticut insurance officials, but recently, the department’s fraud and investigations’ divisions have been seeing seen a lot more of the cards. All Connecticut drivers are required to carry the …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon held a press on Thursday, Aug. 28 to discuss the preparations made by the Department of Insurance (DOI) in the event the state is impacted by Gustav as a major hurricane. The storm is expected …