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National

Honda Expands Recall to Include 600,000 Accords

Honda Motor Co Ltd is expanding a recall in North America to include more than 600,000 Accord mid-size sedans to address a potential power ...

Study: Teen Car Crash Deaths Vary by State

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), nearly 18,000 teens in the U.S. ages 16 to 19 died in car accidents from ...

GM Recalling 40,859 Cars for Potential Fuel Leaks

General Motors Co. is recalling more than 40,000 cars sold in warm-weather U.S. states because a plastic part might crack and cause a fuel ...

Cases to be Reviewed in New U.S. Supreme Court Term

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review close to 40 cases in its new term that begins on Monday, roughly half the number the court is ...

ISO Launches New Program for Underwriting and Pricing Wind Exposure

ISO launch its Enhanced Wind Rating Program, a commercial property rating program designed specifically to address the wind peril. The ...
East

Massachusetts City Faces Steep Flood Control Bill

The Massachusetts city of Northampton is facing an $800,000 bill to upgrade and maintain its storm water and flood control systems to ...

Police Probe Vandalism at Pennsylvania Construction Site

Police say vandals used heavy machinery to trash a construction site and seriously damage a crane in northeast Philadelphia. It happened ...

2 Dozen Join New York JetBlue Lawsuit Over Pilot Scare

Two dozen passengers joined a lawsuit in New York on Thursday against JetBlue Airways Corp. stemming from a pilot's rant during a ...
Midwest

North Dakota Road Raised to Protect it From Flooding

Work is under way to raise a portion of a state highway near Ryder, N.D., to protect the road from flooding. The Minot Daily News reports ...

Repairs to Indiana Covered Bridge Could Cost $300K

A county official says it could cost as much as $300,000 to repair a nearly 140-year-old wooden covered bridge in northeastern Indiana ...

Family of Drowned Nebraska Boy Files $1M Claim

The family of an 11-year-old boy who drowned in an eastern Nebraska lake has filed a claim against the natural resources district that ...

Missouri Gets $1.2M in Federal Food Safety Grants

Missouri has received more than $1.2 million in federal grants for its food safety efforts. About $900,000 will go to the state health and ...
Southeast

Florida Public Adjuster Waiting Period Deemed Unconstitutional

The Florida Legislature has statutorily prohibited public adjusters from contacting loss victims within 48 hours following the loss. The ...

New Kentucky Drug Law Required Testing Costly

Under a new Kentucky law designed to curb prescription pill abuse, patients with long-term conditions requiring controlled substances have ...

Mississippi Ending Insurance Fraud Suit After 11 Years

Mississippi officials are dropping the remnants of an 11-year-old lawsuit after collecting as much money as they think they can get in ...

Florida Insurer Filings on PIP Rates Due Today

Automobile insurers have until the end of day today to show Florida regulators how much, if at all, they plan on reducing rates on the ...
South Central

Sinkhole Hits Home and Businesses Values in Rural Louisiana

Dennis Landry's bed and breakfast was in the middle of a record business year before a sinkhole prompted authorities to tell 150 households ...

Thieves Target Manhole Covers in 2 Texas Cities

Thieves in two South Texas cities have been taking something unusual: storm drain covers. Pharr has had 35 inlet and storm drain covers ...

Isaac Damaged 59,000 Homes in Louisiana

Hurricane Isaac damaged nearly 59,000 homes as the slow-moving storm crawled across southeast Louisiana, according to the latest damage ...
West

Wind Speed of 114 MPH Recorded in Alaska Storm

An amateur weather station recorded a wind speed of 114 miles per hour during last week's storm along the Alaska Range. The gust was ...

BART Installs Quake Early-Warning System

A new earthquake early-warning system installed by California's Bay Area Rapid Transit will detect earthquakes precious seconds before the ...

Alaska Homeowners Face Flood Fallout

It's been three years since Mike Eskelson bought his two-story Anchor Point, Alaska, house on Laida Street. This week, Eskelson has been ...

EPA Pushes Tough Asbestos Standard for Montana Town

A proposed standard for federal cleanup of asbestos contamination in a Montana town concludes that even a tiny amount of the material can ...
International

Chevron Pays $17M Fine for Oil Spill Off Brazil

Chevron Corp. has paid a multimillion-dollar fine for several "irregularities" in connection with last year's oil spill off the coast of ...

Costa Rica Putting Up Streets Signs for First Time

How do you find the National Theater in San Jose? "Left-hand turn 100 (meters) south of the People's Bank." The train station? "Right-hand ...

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