Starting next month, Mercer Island parents will be held responsible for underage drinking at their homes even if they are out of town and unaware it is happening. The recently passed “social host” ordinance is believed to be the first …
One Utah lawmaker wants to pull the plug on daylight saving time. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports Republican Rep. Jim Nielson of Bountiful plans legislation that lets Utah opt out of the semiannual changing of the clocks. …
State lawmakers need to create a $5- to $10-million fund that could be used to entice high-paying employers to the state by rewarding them with incentive packages, Idaho economic developers said. The Boise Valley Economic Partnership, the business-recruitment arm of …
A former Idaho officer with the Fort Hall Police Department injured when his patrol vehicle was hit by another vehicle has been awarded $717,000 by a Pocatello jury. But Nicolas Garcia says he’d rather continue working as a police officer …
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. will pay $1.3 million to three states to settle an investigation into manipulative trading of auction rate securities facilitated by employees at one of the company’s subsidiaries, the New York attorney general’s office …
Alaska’s intended ban on texting while driving is facing a legal challenge, with a magistrate in Kenai saying the Legislature should have been explicit if they truly meant to prohibit the activity. The decision this month by Magistrate Jennifer Wells …
A federal judge has signed a default judgment finding Iran, the Taliban and al-Qaida liable in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed the judgment last Thursday, a week after hearing testimony in the 10-year-old …
A jury has awarded $1.6 million to a Thomaston, Connecticut, man who sued the state Department of Transportation over injuries he suffered in a 2007 accident on an icy road. The Superior Court jury found the state agency was at …
Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net losses on underwriting grew to $34.9 billion in nine-months 2011 from $6.3 billion in nine-months 2010. The combined ratio deteriorated to 109.9 percent for nine-months 2011 from 101.2 percent for nine-months 2010, according to ISO …
American International Group’s CEO Robert Benmosche recently told the board directors that he wants to stay in his job longer than previously planned, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal reported last Friday that Benmosche signaled he is “in …
