Charleston, W.Va., officials are deciding how best to renovate the mausoleum at historic Spring Hill Cemetery. The mausoleum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The roof of the 102-year-old Moorish style structure was severely damaged in a …
A former executive of a business that specialized in disaster recovery has pleaded not guilty to securities fraud in Texas. Federal prosecutors in Dallas say Brian Marshall of Tampa, Fla., appeared Tuesday before a magistrate and was freed on bond. …
A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld a $420,000 verdict against two Mississippi lawyers accused by a railroad company of committing fraud during an asbestos lawsuit they filed in 2001. McComb attorneys William Guy and Thomas Brock sued Illinois …
Washington homeowners with garden hoses helped firefighters battle a three-alarm grass fire that burned about 100 acres in the East Valley community near Yakima. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the fire threatened four homes Monday in gusty winds but no structures …
Officials are urging New York City residents to get ready for hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts on Friday. The city’s Office of Emergency Management has a new edition of its Ready New York hurricane guide. It’s available …
A longtime state health official has been tapped to oversee job safety in Wyoming. New Mexico state epidemiologist C. Mack Sewell told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Monday that has accepted a position analyzing occupational deaths in Cheyenne, Wyo. …
State police say a bank got wise before a western Pennsylvania county lost any money from $53,000 worth of forged government checks cashed at eastern Pennsylvania Wal-Mart stores. State police in Indiana, Pa. have yet to charge anyone in the …
Authorities in Delaware are investigating a deadly trench collapse at a construction site in Sussex County. Authorities said 47-year-old Richard A. White of Milford died Thursday morning when the trench he was working in collapsed at a job site in …
Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP’s catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear. Usually folks are upbeat and busy in May, when shrimpers get …
Two dozen black pilots alleged in a lawsuit on Tuesday that United Continental Holdings, the parent of United Airlines, passed them over for management promotions because of race. The world’s biggest carrier denied the allegations and said it would fight …