Southeast News

A McDowell County, West Virginia man accused of faking numerous accidents has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Insurance Commissioner Jane... Read More

The federal government has sued an eastern Kentucky mine operator for nonpayment of civil penalties assessed after a 2006 explosion... Read More

The widow of an eastern Kentucky coal miner who died on the job last year has sued one of the... Read More

A sharply divided Florida Supreme Court says law enforcement agencies can be sued over “safety checks” that go bad. The... Read More

Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine reported that the fire that gutted the Farm Commodities Peanut Warehouse... Read More

The government has opened a criminal investigation into the Georgia peanut-processing plant at the center of the national salmonella outbreak,... Read More

In some parts of rural Kentucky, they’re getting water the old-fashioned way — with pails from a creek. There’s not... Read More

The owner and operator of a private jet that crashed last year, killing four people, is suing the South Carolina... Read More

North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin reported the arrest of an Edgecombe County man. The warrant alleges Johnny Harper, Jr.,... Read More

In the midst of a winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians without electricity, a minor earthquake... Read More