Four months after two students were killed in a bus wreck, Beaumont, Texas, school officials are asking the district board to approve outfitting 30 new school buses with seat belts. Superintendent Carrol Thomas said she will recommend buying 10 new …
Broad references to the “poultry industry” have no place in a case in which specific companies are accused of arsenic pollution in Arkansas, defense lawyers say. They have asked a judge to bar plaintiffs from using such an all-encompassing term …
Accounting questions surrounding a funeral benefits trust fund operated by a Fletcher, Okla., funeral home have prompted the state insurance department to seize control of the fund. The owner of the funeral home, John W. Hodge, has ignored repeated requests …
The Virginia Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced plans to investigate whether the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project contributed to flooding last month that seriously damaged about 150 homes in Fairfax County’s Huntington neighborhood. Virginia Transportation Secretary Pierce Homer said the …
Health insurer WellPoint Inc. said this week that its second-quarter profit climbed 34 percent on increased revenue from premiums and administrative fees. The company also continues to benefit from its December acquisition of rival WellChoice Inc. Net income for the …
The value of a farmer’s tractor and other equipment wouldn’t count as income when applying for health insurance under a program Gov. Jim Doyle is proposing. At a town hall meeting Tuesday, Doyle said he plans to change how income …
A federal judge has thrown out key provisions of a 2004 Massachusetts law aimed at preventing oil spills, ruling that the statute is pre-empted by federal law and therefore unconstitutional. The Legislature passed the Oil Spill Prevention Act after a …
The on-site safety officer for a Boston highway commuter tunnel where a motorist was crushed by falling concrete warned his superiors in 1999 that the heavy ceiling panels might collapse because the bolts could not support them, The Boston Globe …
The massive fire that destroyed part of a vacant mill complex in Windsor Locks, Conn. earlier this month was set, town officials said Monday. First Selectman Steven Wawruck Jr. said state and local fire investigators have determined the cause was …
Japan’s financial watchdog said it has reprimanded Nippon Life Insurance Co. over improper cancellation of insurance policies, ordering Japan’s largest insurer to submit a business improvement plan. The Financial Services Agency said an employee at Nippon Life altered the expiration …
