The start of a new year often brings jokes about crystal balls, but with the arrival of 2008, many investors are ruefully saying they don’t need fortunetelling gimmicks – they know that the problems that made 2007 painful and turbulent …
At least four West Virginia University fraternities still can’t move back into the houses they were evicted from last spring. Houses for Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Delta Theta, Pi Kappa Phi and Phi Sigma Kappa were condemned in May for …
Fewer people dead, injured in fires in Philadelphia in 2006 The number of people who died in fires in Philadelphia was down last year. The Philadelphia Fire Department has released the city’s fire statistics for 2007. Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers …
The Travelers Cos. Inc. will pay $6 million to settle investigations in 9 states and the District of Columbia over how it paid brokers. The St. Paul-based company said it had reached agreements with attorneys general in Michigan, Florida, Hawaii, …
A Pittsburgh-area water authority will have to pay for all road damage caused by breaks in its lines and reimburse the state for past problems. The state Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. PennDOT …
A building housing the water-sewer department in Lafayette, Ga., was heavily damaged and years worth of records were destroyed when teens broke in and set it on fire early on New Year’s Day, authorities said. Glenn Allen, a spokesman for …
Text-messaging while driving could be outlawed if a northern Virginia lawmaker gets his wish. Delegate James Scott, a Falls Church Democrat, has proposed a bill that would make it illegal for people to send text messages _ electronic messages via …
Frederick County, Md. Commissioner Charles Jenkins is calling for penalties for local businesses that hire illegal immigrants. He is talking to the county attorney about a plan to audit local businesses that receive building permits from the county. Under his …
North Carolina officials plan to temporarily lift the ban on open burning to allow people time to burn off forest debris that can fuel wildfires. North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Bill Ross lifted the ban Wednesday …
Maryland fire marshals say they’re still investigating the burning of a vacant house in Washington County worth $750,000. Fire marshal Ed Ernst told The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail Monday morning that they still haven’t learned who owns the home. Firefighters let the …
