Texas / South Central News Louisiana Parishes Want to Be Part of Levee Plan Louisiana residents and parish officials are lobbying the Army Corps of Engineers to include Ascension and St. James parishes in... Read More
Texas / South Central News Texas DPS Ends Valley Roadblocks A newspaper analysis shows that two Texas border counties singled out for traffic checkpoints have lower crash rates than other... Read More
Midwest News Police: Bag on Missouri Clinic Roof Failed Try at Arson Investigators say they’re looking into a failed arson attempt at a southwest Missouri Planned Parenthood clinic after a bag containing... Read More
News P/C Industry Valuations Stable: Conning Property/casualty insurance stocks have now risen beyond the sub-book-value multiples that existed for many companies over the preceding four years... Read More
News GM Recalls 1,658 Small Sonic Cars for Fuel Tank Issue General Motors Co is recalling 1,658 Chevrolet Sonic cars, as potentially faulty strap welds could cause the fuel tank to... Read More
International News China Evacuates 417,000 People Ahead of Typhoon Hundreds of thousands of people in southeast China were evacuated and fishing vessels called back to shore on Sunday because... Read More
West News Toyota Rebuffed by U.S. Supreme Court on Prius Brake Lawsuits The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Toyota Motor Corp. appeal that sought to force arbitration of California lawsuits over... Read More
East News New Jersey Governor Blames Civil Servant for Sandy Train Damage New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says a low-level manager – not the state’s mass transit chief – was to blame... Read More
West News Erin Brockovich Resolves Nevada Drunken Boating Case Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has pleaded no contest to operating a boat while intoxicated following her arrest at Lake Mead.... Read More
Midwest News Parents File Civil Suit Against Iowa Boat Operators The parents of an Iowa man killed in a Mississippi River boating crash filed the first of what could be... Read More