International News New York Lawsuit Seeks Sackler Family Investments Abroad April 2, 2019 A New York state lawsuit is renewing longstanding questions about where some members of the billionaire Sackler family have invested... Read More
Art Dealer Pays $4.2 Million to Settle `Fake’ Old Master Dispute April 2, 2019 By Kaye Wiggins Art dealer Mark Weiss and his company have paid $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit with Sotheby’s auction house after... Read More
New Orleans Sue Several Oil, Gas Firms over Coastal Erosion April 1, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The City of New Orleans is suing several oil and gas companies over coastal erosion. Mayor Latoya... Read More
International News Regulators Knew before Crashes that 737 MAX Trim Control was Confusing April 1, 2019 By Jamie Freed SINGAPORE — U.S. and European regulators knew at least two years before a Lion Air crash that the usual method... Read More
International News Ethiopian Crash Could be Largest Non-War Aviation Reinsurance Claim: Willis Re April 1, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn LONDON — Liability claims related to the Ethiopian Airlines crash and the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft could... Read More
Texas / South Central News Chemical Disaster Zone Remains No-Go Zone Two Weeks After Blaze April 1, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Kevin Crowley Two weeks after a chemical storage complex near Houston erupted in flames and menaced tens of thousands of people with... Read More
Wall Street Embraces Weather Risk in New Era of Storms, Drought April 1, 2019 Every uptick in wind speed along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline is of enormous interest to Mike Eilts. Eilts, senior... Read More
Texas / South Central News Firefighters at Houston Chemical Disaster Scrambled for Foam April 1, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Kevin Crowley Firefighters confronted with the worst Gulf Coast industrial disaster in 14 years had to call on outside sources to augment... Read More
Southeast News 9-1-1 System to Increase State and Local Fees in Maryland April 1, 2019 By Jared Beinart ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Legislation that would increase state and local 9-1-1 fees in Maryland — part of the Next Generation... Read More
More than 1 Million Acres of U.S. Cropland Ravaged by Floods April 1, 2019 By P.J. Huffstutter, Humeyra Pamuk 6 MIN READ CHICAGO/COLUMBUS, Neb. — At least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland were flooded after the “bomb cyclone” storm left wide... Read More