Tuesday 17 September 2013

Daily Headlines: Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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September 17, 2013
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National

Making Sense of the Nation's Bad Bridges

The Associated Press analyzed the federal National Bridge Inventory to focus on the thousands of bridges that have the unfortunate ...

U.S. Crop Insurance Claims Jump Amid Planting Delays, USDA Says

U.S. farmers who were prevented from planting by rain this year filed crop insurance claims on six times more land than last season, the ...

World a Riskier Place According to Consumers: Travelers Survey

According to Travelers' Consumer Risk Index, 63 percent of Americans believe their world is becoming a riskier place, while only 15 percent ...
East

Vermont High Court Rules in Borrowed Car Death

It's back to the trial court for a Vermont case in which a woman lent her car keys to a man, who then gave them to the woman's boyfriend, ...

Flooded New Jersey Homeowners in Limbo Awaiting Buyout Offers

An appraiser sent by the state recently assessed the value of Bob and Pat Smith's house, nearly a year after floodwaters from Superstorm ...

Pennsylvania Leads States in Bridges With Red Flags

Pennsylvania is among the nation's leaders in bridges that both lack backup protection against collapse in case a single, vital component ...

University of Massachusetts Worker Who Died in Crash Stole $3.4M

Officials at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have discovered a $3.4 million theft by an employee who died in a December car ...

Karen Clark & Company Report Examines Present Day Impact Of 1938 Hurricane

Karen Clark & Company (KCC), independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, today issued a ...
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Midwest

CTA Ads Warn Passengers to Stay Off the Rails

The Chicago Transit Authority has a message for riders: stay off the tracks. The rail and bus service is rolling out a series of new public ...

$1.2M Deal Approved in Lawsuit Over Michigan Jail Death

A $1.2 million deal in a federal lawsuit over the alcohol-withdrawal death of a woman who was in custody at the Lenawee County jail in ...

Construction of Joplin High School 'Feverish'

A new Joplin High School that will replace one destroyed by the May 2011 tornado is on track to be opened in time for the start of school ...

Winona Fire Chief Says 3 Buildings Total Loss

Three buildings were a total loss in Friday's blaze that damaged several businesses, apartments and a mosque in an older part of downtown ...
Southeast

Memorial to 1928 Florida Storm Victims Largely Ignored

South Florida officials are considering improvements for a memorial and mass grave for hundreds of victims of the 1928 hurricane, still the ...

North Carolina Men Charged With Taking $50k in Socks

Two Greensboro, N.C., men have been arrested and charged with taking $50,000 worth of socks from a HanesBrands Inc. distribution center in ...

Former Allstate Employee Convicted in Florida Insurance Scam

Yarden Lee Bracero, 39, a former Allstate employee in Jacksonville was convicted for diverting claims payments for her own personal use, ...

DUI Arrests Way Down in Miami Beach

Drunk driving arrests are way down in Miami Beach, Fla., but that doesn't mean people are drinking and driving any less. City police say ...
South Central

Louisiana Citizens Lowering Commercial Property Rates

The state-run property insurer of last resort in Louisiana plans to lower commercial rates. The Advocate reports the bulk of those cuts ...

Ingrid Not Expected to Cause Big Problems in Texas

Schools in Brownsville are closed and shrimping boats are taking cover on the Texas border as Tropical Storm Ingrid moves through Mexico. ...

600 Acres Burned in Arkansas Wildfire

A wildfire that burned 600 acres in Ashley County has now been contained. The Arkansas Forestry Commission said Sunday that the fire ...
West

Carlos Santana Escapes Unharmed in Vegas Accident

Police say Carlos Santana drove into an unoccupied parked car near an upscale area of Las Vegas, but escaped injury. The Grammy-winning ...

Officials Say Nearly 19K Homes Damaged, Destroyed

Colorado emergency management officials have released an initial estimate that says the ongoing flooding has damaged or destroyed nearly ...

Washington L&I Proposes 2.7% Average Rise in Workers' Comp Rates in 2014

The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has proposed an average 2.7 percent rate increase for 2014 workers' compensation premiums, an ...
International

Shipwrecked Concordia Wrested Off Italian Reef

Engineers on Monday succeeded in wresting the hull of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia from the Italian reef where it has been stuck since ...

Powerful Typhoon Lashes Japan; Thousands Evacuated

A powerful typhoon lashed Japan with torrential rain Monday, leaving two dead as it damaged homes and flooded parts of the country's ...

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