A Pennsylvania woman is accused of doctoring photos and video of her daughter’s cheerleading rivals to try to get them kicked off the squad, officials said. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office last week charged Raffaela Spone, 50, with three …
The state of Pennsylvania will pay $475,000 to the estate of a man who died underneath a bulldozer that Pennsylvania State Police had used to chase him for growing a handful of marijuana plants, according to a settlement revealed in …
A 21-year-old man who suffered a medical emergency during firefighter training in upstate New York died nine days after being stricken. Peyton Morse died at Guthrie Hospital in Sayre, Penn., according to fire officials. He had been training to become …
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) is calling on its regulated insurers to prioritize diversity of leadership and says it will begin collecting and publishing diversity data from insurers this year to promote transparency. These new actions …
The Maryland Senate voted Friday for a package of steps to fight climate change by planting 5 million trees over 10 years, increasing energy efficient buildings and committing to more electric state vehicle use. The measure would require the Maryland …
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from New York state against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over its 2019 decision that General Electric had completed a Hudson River dredging remediation project. The Times Union of Albany reported U.S. …
Despite two severe amputation injuries in 2018 and 2020 on the same machine at a Lakewood, New Jersey, ice cream manufacturing plant, a recent federal safety and health inspection found the company continued to ignore protocols designed to prevent other …
New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Chris Nicolopoulos announced that Tyler Brannen, a 15-year veteran of the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID), has been promoted to the position of Life and Health director. Most recently, Brannen served as the NHID’s director of …
A New Jersey appeals court on Thursday ruled against famed pop artist Peter Max in a dispute over millions of dollars’ worth of his works that were damaged in a warehouse during Superstorm Sandy. The German-born Max, whose distinctive psychedelic …
Acadia Insurance, a Berkley company, has appointed Simone Grimes as chief financial officer. She succeeds Charlie Hamblen, who will retire later this year. Grimes has senior leadership experience in finance and insurance, previously working at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), then as a …
