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Georgia County’s Experience Shows Perils of Ransomware

JEFFERSON, Ga. — On the first Saturday in March, computer screens at the 911 dispatch center in this small town went dark. Staff at the county jail around the same time could no longer open cell doors remotely with electronic …

Mystery Surrounds Loss of Records, Art on 9/11

Letters written by Helen Keller. Forty-thousand photographic negatives of John F. Kennedy taken by the president’s personal cameraman. Sculptures by Alexander Calder and Auguste Rodin. The 1921 agreement that created the agency that built the World Trade Center. Besides ending …

Report: Massey Mine Had 2 Sets of Records

The owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men died in a blast last year kept two sets of safety records, one that it concealed from federal safety officials, National Public Radio reported Wednesday. The government-subsidized radio network …

April Storm Damage Claims Set Kansas Record

Insured property damage loss totals for April 2011 have set a Kansas record, according to figures compiled by the Kansas Insurance Department (KID). Sandy Praeger, Commissioner of Insurance, said the April estimated property damage loss from storms stands at $502.5 …