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A cut-rate demolition contractor was found guilty of manslaughter Monday, more than two years after a towering wall fell on... Read More

It’s common knowledge that driving with blood alcohol content higher than .08 violates the law. But with marijuana, things are... Read More

Atlanta-based Crawford & Company, a global independent provider of claims management solutions, has named Robert C. Welsh managing director and... Read More

State and federal agencies began working Thursday on a $32.5 million storm control project to protect the northern end of... Read More

Deaths from heroin and opioid use outnumbered highway fatalities in Virginia for the first time last year, officials said. Records... Read More

A Connecticut woman who sued her 12-year-old nephew for $127,000 over injuries she received when he exuberantly greeted her at... Read More

Michelle Tetreault’s daughter didn’t know what “repent” meant when she spotted a man with a sign around his neck warning... Read More

The way prosecutors see it, Oneil Sharpe Jr. was drunk when he raced down a Long Island, N.Y., highway at... Read More

A small-time contractor “valued money over human life” when he cut corners on a demolition project, causing a building collapse... Read More