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Three Killed in Fiery Truck-Car Pileup on Georgia Interstate
May 15 2025 // CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Three people were killed and two others injured in a fiery wreck involving multiple vehicles and semi-trailers on the interstate that connects Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee, authorities said. The...
Four Hondurans Indicted in Florida on $89M Workers’ Comp, Tax Avoidance Charges
May 13 2025 // A grand jury in Orlando last week indicted four Honduran nationals for allegedly operating an off-the-books cash payroll scheme for construction workers that defrauded workers’ compensation insurers and avoided...
Three Rhode Island Men Charged in Theft of Thousands of Catalytic Converters
Apr 30 2025 // Three Rhode Island men have been charged in federal court in Providence for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to steal and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of catalytic converters, announced Acting U.S....
Three Workers Killed in Scaffold Collapse at LNG Plant in Texas
Apr 30 2025 // Three workers were killed and two were injured when a section of scaffolding collapsed early Tuesday at a liquefied natural gas plant that Sempra is building in Texas. The two survivors at the Port Arthur LNG project were...
Two Sentenced for Roles in Catalytic Converter Theft Ring
Apr 25 2025 // Prosecutors in Connecticut announced sentencing of two men involved in catalytic converter theft and trafficking. Alexander Kolitsas, 31, of Wolcott, was sentenced in Hartford to 60 months in prison, followed by two years...
Five Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 15 2025 // Five people have been charged in a large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving misrepresented life insurance policies that resulted in fraudulent commissions totaling over $1.4 million. The five, which include a former...
Three Killed When Small Plane Crashes in Boca Raton Near Highway
Apr 14 2025 // BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Three people were killed and one was injured when a small plane crashed Friday morning in South Florida near a major interstate highway and pushed a car onto railroad tracks, officials said. Boca...
Four Charged in Death of Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion
Apr 7 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
Six Injured After Truck Crashed Into Building and Pedestrians in Boston
Apr 3 2025 // BOSTON (AP) — A box truck crashed into a building Tuesday afternoon in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood and hit several pedestrians before flipping onto its side, city officials said. The driver and five others were...
Eight Corvettes Stolen from Kentucky Plant But Found Later, Some with Minor Damage
Mar 27 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built, but officers recovered the vehicles and made an arrest, police said. The cars were...
Four Sailors Involved in Major Singapore Oil Spill Plead Guilty, Straits Times Reports
Mar 14 2025 // Four Dutch crew members involved in a ship collision in Singapore have pleaded guilty for their role in the city-state’s worst oil spill in a decade, the Straits Times reported Wednesday. Richard Ouwehand, Martin...
Four Charged in Death of 5-Year-Old Michigan Boy in Oxygen Chamber Explosion
Mar 13 2025 // Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was “incinerated” inside a pressurized oxygen chamber that exploded at a suburban Detroit medical facility, Michigan’s attorney general...
Two Workers Injured in Explosion at Cannabis Facility
Jan 27 2025 // Two workers were injured in an explosion and fire at a cannabis extraction facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore last Wednesday, state fire officials said. Firefighters were called to PharmaCann in Stevensville for a...
Six Years Post Fatal Disaster, Mines Start Global Waste-Dam Body
Jan 22 2025 // An international institute that seeks to improve the safety of reservoirs that store toxic waste from mining known as tailings kicked off Tuesday, six years after the collapse of a dam owned by Vale SA killed 272 people in...
Four Canadian Banks Quit Climate Group as Exodus Begun by Wall Street Picks Up
Jan 20 2025 // Four of Canada’s biggest banks are leaving the industry’s top climate-finance alliance, joining Wall Street peers and extending an exodus that started in early December. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,...
One Call Names Mendez CEO, Alliant Adds VP Cassidy in Florida
Jan 17 2025 // One Call, a provider of ancillary care services for the workers’ compensation market, based in Jacksonville, named Nicholas Mendez as chief executive officer, starting Feb. 10. Mendez succeeds Jay Krueger, who will...
One in Four UK Firms Cut Jobs After Reeves Budget, PMI Shows
Jan 6 2025 // Almost one in four British businesses cut jobs in December amid widespread pessimism over the squeeze on their finances from Labour’s tax-raising budget. S&P Global’s purchasing managers’ index...
Two Plane Crashes Lead to Deadliest Year in Skies Since 2018
Dec 31 2024 // Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to...
Two Florida Tourist Sites Halt Drone Shows After Boy Was Hit at Orlando Event
Dec 31 2024 // ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A theme park resort and a huge hotel in central Florida either have stopped using drones or canceled their drone-based shows after several drones collided and fell from the sky during a separate...
One Dead, Two Hurt After Tyson Foods Plant Fire in Georgia
Dec 30 2024 // ATLANTA (AP) — A woman died and two other people were hospitalized with injuries after a fire at a Tyson Foods plant in southwest Georgia, state officials said Friday. A wall fell on the cab of an 18-wheel truck parked...
