It has been a year since officials with the National Hurricane Museum and Science Center signed a cooperative agreement with Lake Charles City Hall to build the $60 million-plus facility on property near the Civic Center. On Tuesday, the American …
A Clarkston, Wash., woman whose medical marijuana was stolen can’t recover the loss under her renter’s insurance policy because no legal value for the drug can be established. The Lewiston Tribune reports a judge in Dayton dismissed claims Tuesday against …
Poland’s national carrier LOT says it is selling a Boeing 767 plane that belly-landed last year. The company said Wednesday that repairing the damaged plane would cost too much. The plane, carrying 231 people from Newark, New Jersey, made an …
London Fire Brigade says Rihanna was among 300 people evacuated from a hotel after an early-morning fire in an elevator shaft. The 24-year-old Barbadian singer tweeted news of the fire early Wednesday to her 21 million Twitter followers, posting a …
President Obama is expected to sign into law a mammoth bill passed by Congress Tuesday that reshapes how the Food and Drug Administration assures the safety of the drug supply, particularly imported medicines. The bill is a must-pass piece of …
A Florida woman is suing a western North Carolina company, saying she suffered in the recent salmonella outbreak because of the tempeh maker. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported a nurse, Mary Ann Hurtado of Jacksonville, Fla., said she suffered shaking, headache, …
The defendants in a Hilton Head, S.C., defamation lawsuit want a new trial and say the $6 million award in the case is excessive. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that Municipal Court Judge Maureen Coffey sued the Sea …
The American Civil Liberties Union will help the Ku Klux Klan in its bid to join Georgia’s highway cleanup program as a legal fight looms. ACLU of Georgia Executive Director Debbie Seagraves tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the civil rights …
Widespread misunderstanding regarding the proper use of certificates of insurance has led to new changes relating to their use that will become effective July 1, 2012, according to Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance. The Bureau reported that some private and public …
Government scientists on a recent survey of southeast Alaska beaches found a number of large black buoys, the likes of which they hadn’t seen in the region on a 2008 trip. But they cannot say if the buoys are related …