Despite shaking a large swath of Southern California, a magnitude-5.4 earthquake was not the “Big One” that scientists have long...
Monthly Archives: <span>August 2008</span>
Although this new suburb of 80,000 people was just a few miles from the epicenter of a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, the...
West Virginia’s medical malpractice insurer will pay a total of $3 million to five people who sued a former West...
The federal government approved a disaster declaration to cover the losses Big Island farmers have suffered as a result of...
Senator Tom Harkin says more than $10 billion in disaster aid, including $182 million for a new federal courthouse in...
Authorities in eastern Idaho say a series of wildfires in recent years, including the largest so far this year, may...
An insurance company’s attorney suggested during a sworn deposition that former Mississippi U.S. Sen. Trent Lott urged witnesses to give...
Fire gutted a historic building in Oacoma, S.D. and officials believe the blaze was the work of an arsonist. The...
Lightning strikes during a Georgia thunderstorm caused nine reported building fires in Gwinnett County, including a severe house fire. Capt....
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued more than two dozen people on a charter fishing boat off the North Carolina coast...