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One Worker Missing After Explosion at Massachusetts Chemical Plant
May 4 2023 // One worker is missing and the building is severely damaged after an early morning explosion at a pharmaceutical chemical plant in a business park in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Five workers were in the building at the time...
Two Charged With Setting Philadelphia Fire That Killed Firefighter for Insurance Money
Apr 21 2023 // The owner of a Philadelphia building that caught fire and collapsed last summer, killing a city firefighter and injuring five other people, has been indicted along with another man on charges they set the blaze, federal...
Nine More States Join Federal Lawsuit Against Google Over Ad Tech
Apr 18 2023 // Nine states, including Michigan and Nebraska, have joined a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google which alleges the search and advertising company broke antitrust law in running its digital...
Two Tornadoes Confirmed in Georgia Towns
Apr 17 2023 // The National Weather Service confirmed two weak tornadoes touched down last week in middle Georgia. No one was reported injured in either storm. A tornado with top winds of 90 mph touched down on the southeast edge of...
Two New Jersey Police Chiefs Facing Charges
Apr 14 2023 // New Jersey authorities on Wednesday arrested a small-town police chief, charging him with sexually assaulting subordinates over more than a decade, while also announcing misconduct charges against another police chief who...
Three Alaska Native Tribes Suing to Block Major Gold Mine Project
Apr 13 2023 // Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world, arguing that federal agencies failed to properly analyze health and environmental concerns for the project in...
Four Dead in Plane Crash off Florida’s Gulf Coast
Apr 10 2023 // The bodies of two men and two women have been recovered following a small plane crash just off Florida’s Gulf Coast, police said Thursday. The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the...
Two Contractors to Pay $1.24 Million to Resolve Fraud in Whittier Bridge/I-95 Project
Apr 6 2023 // Walsh Construction Co. and Melo’s Rodbusters, Inc. have agreed to pay $1.24 million collectively to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they participated in a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of the federal...
3M’s Bid to Shield Itself From Earplug Lawsuits Faces Skeptical Judges
Apr 5 2023 // Federal appeals court judges on Tuesday appeared skeptical of 3M’s bid to use the bankruptcy of its subsidiary Aearo Technologies to shield itself from nearly 260,000 lawsuits over allegedly defective military-issue...
Nine People Killed in Tennessee in Powerful Tornado System that Hit Region
Apr 3 2023 // Nine people died in Tennessee’s McNairy County, east of Memphis, in the same deadly storm system that pounded parts of Arkansas and Illinois, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management...
Eight Injured in Chocolate Factory Blast in Pennsylvania
Mar 27 2023 // WEST READING, Pa. (AP) – Firefighters battled a blaze in Pennsylvania Friday after an explosion at a chocolate factory injured eight people and sent a plume of black smoke into the air above West Reading. Berks...
Three Killed in Georgia House Fire as Propane Tanks Explode
Mar 15 2023 // Three people were killed in a house fire as multiple propane tanks exploded, officials said. ”Explosions were going off inside the home” when firefighters arrived early Saturday morning, Barrow County Fire...
Two Agree to Plead Guilty in Massachusetts Driver’s License Scam
Mar 7 2023 // The former manager of a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles branch has agreed to plead guilty to federal extortion charges for allegedly taking bribes and in exchange for issuing passing scores on learner’s...
Two More La. Residents Sentenced in Staged Auto Collision Scheme
Feb 22 2023 // U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance sentenced New Orleans residents Herbert Allen,age 38, and Dion Ridley, age 23, after they pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code,...
Five Things Independent Insurance Producers Expect from Their Agency
Feb 22 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The producer market is getting skinny with retirees exiting businesses and not enough interest from new generations. Agencies that can deliver on both the historical...
Two More Louisiana Residents Sentenced in Staged Auto Accident Conspiracy
Feb 17 2023 // Two more Louisiana citizens were sentenced for conspiring to stage automobile accidents in order to defraud insurance and trucking companies. United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that John Diggs age 62, of...
Two Missouri Residents Plead Guilty to $1.2M Insurance Fraud Conspiracy
Feb 16 2023 // Two Columbia, Mo., residents pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a $1.2 million insurance fraud conspiracy that involved false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents. Latoya Marie Brown, 37, who also...
Two Arrested in Homemade Bombing of Georgia Woman’s Home
Feb 13 2023 // Georgia authorities have arrested two men, a month after a homemade bomb destroyed part of a home near Savannah. Caleb Kinsey, 33, and Stephen Glosser, 36, were apprehended last week after an investigation into the bombing...
Three College Students Killed in West Virginia Auto Accident
Feb 9 2023 // Three Virginia college students were killed when their vehicle left a road and struck a tree in West Virginia, authorities said Friday. The single-vehicle accident occurred Thursday night along West Virginia Route 259 near...
Four Countries Urge EU to Set Date for New CO2-Emitting Trucks
Jan 20 2023 // The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Luxembourg have urged the European Union to fix a date by which new trucks and buses sold in Europe must have zero carbon dioxide emissions. The European Commission is set to propose...
