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Several Injured in North Texas School Bus/Car Accident
Dec 3 2018 // Investigators say one adult has been critically injured and several students were slightly hurt when a school bus was hit head-on by a car in North Texas. The Department of Public Safety says the Bridgeport Independent...
University of Maryland Says 22 Confirmed Cases of Adenovirus
Dec 3 2018 // More cases of a respiratory virus have been confirmed at the University of Maryland, College Park, where a freshman died of complications from the virus last month. The director of the university’s health center said...
Researchers: Houston’s Urbanization Partly to Blame for More Frequent and Intense Rain Events
Dec 3 2018 // Studies published earlier this year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Hurricane Center showing a dramatic increase in the frequency of intense rain events in the Houston area in recent...
Missouri University Settles Former Baseball Player’s Lawsuit for $200K
Nov 28 2018 // State records show that former Southeast Missouri State University baseball player Broc Kreitler settled a lawsuit over an injury he suffered during a practice for $200,000. The Southeast Missourian reports that the...
Former Students Sue Massachusetts College that Abruptly Closed
Nov 28 2018 // Students who attended a Massachusetts college that abruptly shut its doors filed a class-action lawsuit Monday against the school and former administrators and trustees, alleging they were victims of fraud,...
Insurance Agent at Heart of Heartbreaking California Wildfire
Nov 14 2018 // Derek Ross has his hands full with the Woolsey Fire in Southern California for three reasons. He’s an insurance agent with numerous clients affected, he’s the president of the board of a school district...
Locker Room Wall Collapse Injures 5 at Alabama High School
Nov 13 2018 // Five Alabama high school football players were injured in a locker room when a brick wall collapsed onto them while they were getting ready for a game. News outlets report that the Oakman High School players were in the...
Montana School District Will Pay $350K in Harassment Suit
Nov 5 2018 // A western Montana school district has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that claimed school officials did not adequately protect a student from being harassed and groped by a music teacher. KTMF-TV reported the...
People
Nov 5 2018 // The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered super-regional property and casualty insurance carrier, has promoted Jerry Waters to vice president and chief accounting officer, effective...
Texas Insurer Group Provides $31K in University Student Scholarships
Nov 2 2018 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation recently honored 20 students studying insurance and risk management at universities in Texas with $31,000 in scholarships. Funds for ICT’s scholarship program...
Utah University Settles Suit Alleging Retaliation
Nov 2 2018 // The former head of Utah Valley University’s anti-discrimination office has reached a settlement with the college after the woman filed a lawsuit accusing the school of unfairly firing her after she raised concerns...
7 Children Hurt in Alabama School Bus Crash
Nov 1 2018 // State troopers say seven children have been injured in a school bus crash in Alabama. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Cpl. Jeremy Baker tells news outlets six children were released after being treated for minor...
School District in California Settles Teacher Sex Suit for $5M
Oct 31 2018 // The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of a student who was molested by a teacher when she was 13. It would be the largest payout the nation’s second-largest...
Electric Scooters Banned at University of Arizona over Safety
Oct 29 2018 // The University of Arizona has banned dockless electric scooters from its campus effective immediately. University of Arizona Parking and Transportation Services Interim Executive Director Gail Nazarenko says the decision...
Army Corps, Texas Officials Propose Sweeping Hurricane Protection Plan
Oct 26 2018 // Following years of research, studies and public debate, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the state’s General Land Office — has recommended a multi-billion-dollar project that would protect...
10 Students, Driver Injured in Central Texas School Bus Crash
Oct 26 2018 // Investigators say 10 students and their school bus driver were injured when the vehicle was broadsided by an 18-wheeler on a Central Texas highway. The Texas Department of Public Safety says nobody was seriously hurt in...
Alabama School Bus Crash Kills 1, Injures 11
Oct 26 2018 // A crash between an Alabama school bus and a passenger vehicle has killed one person in the vehicle and injured 11 on the bus. State Police Trooper Cpl. Jimmy Harrell tells AL.com 31-year-old Amanda Nicole Hubbard died in...
More Than 30 Dorm Rooms Damaged in Fire at Mississippi State University
Oct 24 2018 // Mississippi State University officials say no one was hurt by a fire in a dormitory room. The fire happened Sunday night on the third floor of Oak Hall on the Starkville campus. The university said in a news release Monday...
Stricter Gun Laws Haven’t Made Communities Safer from Mass Shootings
Oct 23 2018 // A trauma research team has developed a profile of commonalities among communities where mass shootings have occurred that includes a shortage of mental health professionals, a relative lack of socialization opportunities,...
Federal Safety Agency Shuts Down Self-Driving School Bus Test
Oct 23 2018 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday said it had ordered Transdev North America to immediately stop transporting school children in Florida in a driverless shuttle, as the testing could be putting...
