Wednesday 31 August 2011

Daily Headlines: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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August 31, 2011
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National

Fighting Insurance Fraud: The “Fraud Dog” Talks Tactics

Linda Webb has a background in fighting crime and fraud. A stint early in her career as a white collar crime detective led in 1994 to a ...

Holes Remain in Flight School Scrutiny After 9/11

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, government screening has made it harder for foreign students to enroll in civilian flight schools like a ...

Tropical Storm Katia Strengthens in the Atlantic

Tropical Storm Katia has formed and is slowly strengthening as it moves across the Atlantic. Katia has maximum sustained winds late Tuesday ...

Lexington Insurance Company Expands Spoliation Insurance Product

Lexington Insurance Company, a Chartis company, announced its spoliation insurance endorsement will be offered to a broad array of ...

MSHA to Publish Rule on Proximity Detectors

Federal regulators are publishing a proposed rule this week that would require U.S. underground mines to install equipment which ...
East

Hurricane Knocks Out Power to New York Jets Homes, Facility

Bart Scott's home in New Jersey has no power because of Hurricane Irene, and he's unsure when the lights will go back on. Still, the New ...

Massachusetts City Settles Suit Alleging Police Brutality

The city of Worcester has settled a federal lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that two city police officers beat and falsely arrested ...

Virginia County School Damage Estimate Could Reach $60 Million

Louisa County officials say it could cost up to $60 million to replace a high school and an elementary school damaged by last week's ...
Midwest

Nebraska Claims Examiner Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud

An Omaha man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud while he was working as a claims examiner for an insurance company. The U.S. attorney's ...

Former Missouri Priest Faces Seventh Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

A former Kansas City priest is named in a seventh lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse. The lawsuit filed Monday against the Rev. Hugh ...

Indiana Attorney General Seeks Dismissal of 1 Fair Collapse Lawsuit

Indiana's attorney general wants a judge to dismiss one of the lawsuits filed over the Indiana State Fair's deadly stage collapse. Attorney ...

Wisconsin Clinic Warns of Possible Disease Exposures

A Madison-based clinic is trying to track down hundreds of patients after a nurse apparently spent years improperly using diabetic ...
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Southeast

Collapsed Wastewater Basin in Tennessee to be Replaced

The operators of Gatlinburg's wastewater treatment plant say a concrete basin that collapsed, killing two workers and allowing millions of ...

Kentucky Man, 78, Charged After Road Rage Crash Injures Two

Police have charged a 78-year-old Corbin man who they say forced his older brother and sister's van off a road and into a parked service ...
South Central

Louisiana’s Justice Department Obtains $70K Settlement in Housing Lawsuit

The Justice Department says a group of New Orleans landlords has agreed to pay $70,000 in damages and penalties to settle a lawsuit ...

Arkansas Man in Plane Spots Home Being Burglarized

A Bay man on his first airplane ride asked the pilot to fly over his home so he could take some aerial photos. What he saw was two men ...

Ex-Volunteer Firefighter in Texas Accused of Arson

A former volunteer firefighter in North Texas has been accused of arson. Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford says 21-year-old Patrick David ...
West

County, Couple Settle Oregon ‘Treesort’ Suit

A Washington state couple has settled a lawsuit against Josephine County for $1.2 million after they were injured in a fall from a ...

NTSB to Decide Cause of Gas Pipeline Explosion

A federal safety panel on Tuesday is expected to reveal the results of a yearlong investigation into a natural gas pipeline explosion near ...

Arizona Man Survives Pruning Shears Impalement

Hospital officials say an 86-year-old Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled himself with pruning shears. ...
International

Cost of New Zealand Quakes Rises to $17 Billion

The cost of the deadly sequence of earthquakes in the New Zealand city of Christchurch has gone up, and will now likely top $17 billion. ...

Powerful Quake Hits Off East Timor; No Damage

A powerful earthquake hit waters off East Timor on Tuesday, but officials said it was too deep to trigger a tsunami. There were no reports ...

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