Friday 2 September 2011

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September 2, 2011
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National

Report: Homeowners with Flood Insurance Less Satisfied Than Those Who Opt Out

Among homeowners insurance policyholders, those with flood insurance tend to be significantly less satisfied with their policy coverage, ...

10 Companies Recall Fuel Gel for Firepots

Ten companies are recalling 2 million bottles and jugs of the gel fuel used in outdoor decorations known as firepots because of the risk of ...

BMW to Recall 2,120 X5 SUVs

BMW of North America is recalling up to 2,120 of its X5 xDrive 35d sport utility vehicles because its fuel-filter heater could overload and ...
East

Massachusetts Family Gets $7M in Death of Daughter

A Hamilton family has been awarded a $7 million judgment by a Suffolk Superior Court jury that determined a doctor and a nurse at Beth ...

Parents of Virginia Drowning Victim Urge Tubing Safety

On the afternoon of July 23, two Amherst County deputies came to the home of Katherine and David Tyree with very bad news. For their ...

FEMA Opens Hotline, Website for New Jersey

Individuals and business owners in five northern New Jersey counties can begin seeking federal assistance to recover from Hurricane Irene. ...

New York Governor Cuomo Says Damage from Irene to Hit $1B

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he expects damage in the state from Tropical Storm Irene to total $1 billion. He spoke Wednesday in ...
Midwest

Nebraska County Must Pay $407K in Lawsuit

Furnas County has been ordered to pay more than $407,000 to a man injured in a car accident. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that U.S. ...

Missouri Coal Ash Pond Leaking Since 1992

A coal ash pond next to an Ameren Corp. power plant in Labadie has been spilling up to 35 gallons of toxic coal waste for two decades, ...
Southeast

Mississippi Judge Orders Rosemary Barbour to Pay Damages

A federal claims court has ordered Rosemary Barbour to pay more than $350,000 in penalties and damages to FEMA in what the judge described ...

2 West Virginia Mines Risk Becoming Pattern Violators

Two West Virginia coal mines have been warned they could be labeled pattern violators for failing to report accidents. The Mine Safety and ...

Irene: Less Than $5 Million Insured Damage in South Carolina

Hurricane Irene's brush with the South Carolina coast last week caused less than $5 million in insured damage, an insurance industry ...
South Central

Texas Wildfire Destroys More than 3 Dozen Homes

Kathy Lanpher was showing a property to a client when she heard the improbable, gut-wrenching news: a wildfire like the one that destroyed ...

Bulldozers Used Against Oklahoma City Grass Fire

Bulldozers will be used in an effort to fully extinguish a smoldering grass fire in northeast Oklahoma City. Deputy Fire Chief Marc Woodard ...
West

Montana Jury Awards $2M in Injury Lawsuit Against Railroad

A jury has awarded a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway employee $2 million in a lawsuit over a 2001 back injury that required surgery ...

California Hotel Owner Sentenced for Soliciting Arson

The owner of a downtown Oakland residential hotel has been sentenced to prison for hiring someone to try to burn down the hotel. Federal ...

Feds Seek Cause of California Plane Crash

Federal investigators are listening to Santa Monica Airport audio tapes and interviewing maintenance workers in an effort to determine the ...

Officials Examine Crane Accident at California Park

A small Northern California amusement park remains closed while safety officials investigate how a maintenance crane collapsed, injuring ...
International

Japanese Whistleblower Wins Damages in High Court

The still fledgling protection for whistle-blowers in Japan received a boost by a high court that reversed an earlier decision and rewarded ...

Man Steals 8-Foot Whale Tooth from Norway Museum

The tooth fairy in disguise? No, just a simple tooth thief. A man dressed in a black leather hat and a dark coat on Wednesday ran off with ...

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