Tuesday 4 December 2012

Daily Headlines: Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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December 4, 2012
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National

Employment Liability and Other Taxable Claims - How Taxes and Periodic Payments Can Help Get Them Settled

Ever since the Supreme Court decision in Commissioner v. Schleier, the vast majority of employment settlements have been deemed taxable. ...

Properly Enforced No Pay, No Play Laws Reduce Uninsured Motorists: Study

The uninsured motorist (UM) rate can fall by as much as 1.6 percent after a state adopts a no pay, no play law, according to a new study ...

Language Conflicts Trend Higher in Workplace

More people in the workforce are claiming discrimination over their English-speaking ability or foreign accents, according to federal ...

RLI Partners with Recreation Insurance Specialists to Underwrite RV Insurance

RLI Corp. announced today a new partnership with Recreation Insurance Specialists (RIS), a specialty recreation vehicle (RV) insurance ...

Vanliner Insurance Company Hires Industry Veteran as New President

Vanliner Insurance Company, a moving and storage industry insurer, named Ray Wise, a an insurance industry veteran, president. Prior to ...
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East

Lightning Strike Damage to 911 System Costs $250K to Repair

Taxpayers will be picking up the cost for repairs to the Syracuse, N.Y., area's 911 emergency communications center after it was knocked ...

New Hampshire Officials Offer Snowmobile Safety Classes

New Hampshire Fish and Game officials are offering free snowmobile safety classes at locations around the state. The daylong class is ...

New Jersey Shore Towns Near Showdown With Dune-Building Foes

Armando Rienzi may be the most unpopular person on Long Beach Island, N.J. For years he has fought authorities' attempts to rebuild the ...

Arsons on Virginia's Eastern Shore Rise to 24

Structures on Virginia's Eastern Shore continue to be targets for an arsonist. Virginia State Police tell media outlets that 24 fires have ...
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Midwest

FEMA Trailers in Joplin Slowly Emptying

The nearly 600 federal trailers that housed Joplin residents since the May 2011 tornado are slowly emptying, with only about 80 of the ...

Firefighters Torch Nebraska Mansion for Training

Firefighters are burning down a decaying mansion near Gretna, Neb., room by room for training. The 14,000-square-foot mansion that ...

Man Dies After Fall Into Illinois Chemical Tank

Federal workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a man who fell into a storage tank that contained a chemical solvent in ...

Man Dies in Cave-In at Indiana Road Construction Site

Police say a man working at a northern Indiana highway construction site was killed when a hillside gave way and buried him. The Carroll ...
Southeast

Probe of Fatal Plane Crash in Mississippi Examines Water in Fuel

Authorities are trying to determine if there was water in the fuel of a plane that crashed in Mississippi on Nov. 13, killing three pilots, ...

Pig Causes Crash in Florida

The Florida Highway Patrol says a pig is responsible for causing a series of car accidents in Collier County and injuring nearly a dozen ...

West Virginia Gets Funding to Improve Highway Safety

West Virginia's efforts to improve highway safety are getting help from the federal government. The National Highway Traffic Safety ...
South Central

Louisiana Company Fined Over Sinkhole Trys to Resolve Problems

The owners of a failed Louisiana brine storage cavern are doing their best to comply with a state order to quickly resolve problems created ...

West Texas Mayor Charged With $300K Fraud, Theft

The mayor of a West Texas town of about 100 people has been charged with stealing nearly $300,000 in a forged signature scheme. Toyah Mayor ...

Solera Holdings Acquires Mensaelect S.A.

Solera Holdings, Inc.,  a global provider of software and services to the automobile insurance claims processing industry, announced that ...
West

New Mexico Inmates Clearing Forests to Prevent Wildfires

A group of New Mexico inmates are helping clear up a patch of Bosque in Pena Blanca, an area devastated by the Los Conchas fire last year. ...

Third Strong Storm in Week Drenches Northern California

The third powerful storm in a week drenched an already saturated Northern California, but concerns of serious flooding eased as the system ...

California Mental Hospital Fined $27K for Worker Safety Lapses

A California mental hospital has been fined more than $27,000 for failing to implement worker safety measures. The Los Angeles Times state ...
International

Global Warming Continues as Carbon Pollution Rises

The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global ...

90 Workers Injured in Singapore Shipyard Accident

Officials say about 90 workers have been injured, 23 seriously, in an accident at a Singapore shipyard. The Ministry of Manpower says the ...

Thousands Flee as Typhoon Blows Into Philippines

Thousands of villagers fled from their homes Monday as a strong typhoon roared closer to the southern Philippines, prompting authorities to ...

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