Wednesday 22 August 2012

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August 22, 2012
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National

Study: Hurricane Andrew Three Times as Costly in 2012

There have been 28 storms in U.S. history since 1900 which if they were happen today would each cause $10 billion or more in insured ...

EEOC Reports Federal Discrimination Complaints Down

Federal employees and applicants filed 16,974 complaints of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2011, down about 3.5 percent from ...

Nissan Recalls 2013 Infiniti JX35 Crossover for Faulty Fuel Gauge

Nissan Motor Co said it was recalling 7,842 2013 Infiniti JX35 crossover vehicles to check for defective fuel gauges. The Japanese ...
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East

Virginia Troopers Write More Than 2,500 Citations

A traffic enforcement effort targeting Virginia's interstate highways has yielded more than 2,500 violations. Virginia State Police say ...

Long Island Railroad Escalator Review Shuts Down 10 Escalators

Almost half of the LIRR's 19 escalators are shut down due to safety concerns found during a review following the death in March of a woman ...

Maryland Agriculture Officials Encouraging Crop Insurance

Maryland agriculture officials are encouraging farmers to buy crop insurance. Steve Connelly, an Agriculture Department marketing ...

New Jersey Bill to Toss Limits on Abuse Lawsuits Stalls

A bill that would get rid of statutes of limitation for lawsuits over child sex abuse has stalled in New Jersey's Senate. The Senate had ...
Hurricane Andrew Revisited 20 Years Later

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Midwest

Health Safety Advocates Want Indiana Melon Farm Identified

Health safety advocates want the government to identify a southwestern Indiana farm that has agreed to quit selling cantaloupes following a ...

Lawsuit Settled Over Deadly ATV Crash in Nebraska

A lawsuit filed by a woman injured in a deadly ATV crash in Saunders County, Neb., has been settled. Autumn Kadavy and three others were ...

State Payments for Wolf Damage Increasing in Wisconsin

The amount of money paid to those who have lost animals to wolves in Wisconsin is growing along with the wolf population. The payments are ...

Kansas Sheriff Gets Wrongful Death Claim

Relatives of a Kansas man who committed suicide at the Sedgwick County Jail have filed a wrongful death claim against Sheriff Robert ...
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Southeast

Family Drops Lawsuit in Fatal Tennessee Crash

The family of a young man who died in a crash which a former state trooper did not stop for has dropped a $10 million lawsuit. Charles Van ...

No Classes All Week at Tennessee School Near Sinkhole

There will be no school all week for students at an East Tennessee elementary school after a deep sinkhole opened near the building. ...

Pickups Most Frequently Stolen Alabama Vehicles

Alabama isn't like the rest of the nation when it comes to stolen vehicles. A new report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau says the ...
South Central

Recovering from a Wildfire Catastrophe

Gary Sweeny still gets choked up when thinking of all of his family and friends who helped him recover from the Bastrop, Texas, wildfire ...

Arkansas’ Fire Danger Lowered From Extreme to High

The Arkansas Forestry Commission has lowered the wildfire danger for Arkansas from extreme to high because of scattered rain across the ...

Houston Woman, 73, Hailed for Fending Off Burglar

A 73-year-old Houston woman has been hailed for scaring off a suspected burglar by stabbing him with a barbecue fork. Houston police ...
West

Stepping Outside of UM Coverage: Assaults by an Insured Outside a Vehicle

Recently, the Colorado Court of Appeals found that a road rage incident involving the use of a vehicle to block a second car in order to ...

Vatican Win: Oregon Judge Says Priests Aren’t Employees

The Vatican won a major victory Monday in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of ...

Oregon Workers’ Compensation Claims Down in Decade

Despite a 30 percent increase in Oregon's workforce, the state's workers' compensation claims are down sharply since the system was ...
International

Small Fire Sends Smoke from Dubai’s Largest Mall

Officials in Dubai say a small blaze at one of the world's largest malls brought fire crews to the scene but was quickly brought under ...

Search for Indonesian Quake Victims Hampered

Helicopters on Tuesday dropped the first food and emergency supplies to a remote mountainous area three days after a deadly earthquake ...

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