The 2009 Nissan Murano was the best performer in new crash tests of midsize sport utility vehicles, while the Hummer H3 had one of the poorest showings, according to results released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The institute, …
A circuit judge in West Virginia has upheld a $196.2 million punitive damages award against DuPont in a class-action pollution case. Harrison County Circuit Court Chief Judge Thomas A. Bedell also ordered the Wilmington, Delaware-based chemical giant on Monday to …
A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. “The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is our insurance policy,” …
The Columbus, Ohio school district is to pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit with the family of a developmentally disabled student who was sexually assaulted at a city high school. A 16-year-old girl told Mifflin High School officials in 2005 …
A federal agency has cited Lakehead Blacktop & Materials for safety violations in the deaths last fall of four men who were overcome by toxic fumes after going in a manhole at the company’s landfill. The Occupational Safety and Health …
Wal-Mart Stores President and CEO Eduardo Castro-Wright and Tupelo Capital Management CEO Lulu C. Wang have been named to the board of directors of New York-based MetLife Inc., the company said. With the additions of Castro-Wright, 53, and Wang, 63, …
Former Dallas Cowboy Ron Springs, who has been in a coma since the fall following surgery to remove a cyst, is one of 11 plaintiffs challenging Texas’ medical malpractice cap in a lawsuit filed Monday. The lawsuit, filed in the …
Joseph Sher blamed much of the damage to his New Orleans apartment complex on water that inundated the city when levees failed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He sued Lafayette Insurance Co. after the insurer denied most of his …
Tennessee officials arrested a man on suspicion of setting a fire in the elevator of a dormitory at Knoxville’s University of Tennessee. Authorities have not identified the man or said if he was a student. Greve Hall was evacuated Sunday …
A judge has refused to reduce charges against three men accused of burning down a mosque in Columbia, Tenn. Defense attorneys argued unsuccessfully Monday that the charges should be reduced to arson, instead of arson of a religious building. The …
