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Weaker Building Codes in Florida Panhandle Scrutinized After Michael
Oct 17 2018 // Unlike in South Florida, homes in the state’s Panhandle did not have tighter building codes until just 11 years ago; it was once argued that acres of forests would provide the region with a natural barrier against...
Rescuers Continue to Search Florida Towns Demolished by Hurricane Michael
Oct 15 2018 // Dozens of people remained missing on Sunday in Florida Panhandle communities reduced to ruins by Hurricane Michael as rescuers said they expected the death toll to rise and survivors grappled with power outages and...
Karen Clark: Hurricane Michael Losses Could Reach $8B
Oct 15 2018 // Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) estimates insured losses from Hurricane Michael will be close to $8 billion, according to the KCC high resolution U.S. Hurricane Reference Model. This estimate includes...
Rescuers Search for Survivors as Death Toll from Hurricane Michael Rises
Oct 12 2018 // Using heavy equipment to push aside debris and with helicopters circling overhead, rescuers in the Florida Panhandle searched for trapped residents as officials warned on Friday the death toll from HurricaneMichael was...
Michael Leaves Path Of Destruction Through Florida Panhandle
Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael’s assault on the Florida Panhandle left nothing more than empty foundations and heaps of rubble in some parts of the small towns it crashed into with near-record force. Communications outages and...
After Battering Florida, Hurricane Michael Heads for Georgia, Carolinas
Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland, headed northeast on Thursday, weakened but still set to soak Georgia and the Carolinas after devastating the Florida Panhandle. A man was...
AIR: Hurricane Michael Strongest Storm to Hit Florida Panhandle on Record
Oct 10 2018 // Hurricane Michael, a Category 4 storm hitting Florida Wednesday with wind speeds of more than 150 miles per hour, is not just a major storm for the State of Florida, it is the strongest storm to hit the Florida Panhandle...
Hurricane Michael Headed Towards Florida Panhandle, 13 Killed by Storm in Central America
Oct 9 2018 // Florida’s governor mobilized National Guard troops and ordered Gulf Coast residents to head inland or evacuate as Hurricane Michael churned toward shore on Monday, with the storm forecast to strengthen rapidly before...
New Mexico Man Files Suit Against Store over Chile Pod Slip
Oct 8 2018 // A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod. The Albuquerque Journal reported a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Fe District Court two years...
Update: Florida Calls Emergency Ahead of Expected Hurricane Michael
Oct 7 2018 // Michael, the tropical storm that’s been chugging toward the Florida panhandle, is now a hurricane, threatening to bring driving rain and high winds to the region’s agricultural and tourism industry. While Gulf...
Remnants of Tropical Storm Causes Flooding, Traps Arizona Cars
Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...
New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery
Sep 17 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico,...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Activates CAT Plan
Sep 14 2018 // With a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Depression Isaac located east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and heading west, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has activated its CAT...
Spike in New Mexico Traffic Deaths in August
Sep 13 2018 // New Mexico saw a spike in traffic fatalities in August as a deadly crash involving a passenger bus and a semi-trailer killed nine people. Preliminary data compiled by the state Transportation Department and the University...
Texas Heightens Readiness Level With Tropical System in Gulf
Sep 12 2018 // The National Hurricane Center is advising Louisiana and Texas, along with coastal areas of northern Mexico, to monitor a storm system in the Gulf of Mexico that has a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical...
Some Gulf Energy Production Halted by Storm Gordon
Sep 5 2018 // Three more oil producers pulled employees out of Tropical Storm Gordon’s path, and companies cut 9 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production on Tuesday as the storm churned toward an expected nighttime...
New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery
Aug 29 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported the jury this month ruled that a women’s health clinic in...
U.S. Passengers File Lawsuits Against Aeromexico over Plane Crash
Aug 7 2018 // Eleven U.S. passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Monday, according to a statement by Chicago-based attorneys...
Crash Investigators Locate Aeromexico’s Flight Recorders
Aug 2 2018 // At least 65 U.S. citizens were aboard the Aeromexico passenger jet that crashed in northern Mexico, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as investigators combed the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident. The Mexico...
Ohio Chipotle Restaurant Reopens Following Customer Illnesses
Aug 1 2018 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. reopened a restaurant in Ohio on Tuesday that was temporarily closed after customers reported getting sick. The restaurant, located in the city of Powell, was voluntarily closed for cleaning on...
