Santa Anita racetrack in California has canceled racing indefinitely to re-examine its dirt surface after the deaths of 21 horses in the last two months. Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns Santa Anita, told The …
After successive years of devastating wildfires, California’s fire agency has announced a plan that would dramatically increase the removal of dead trees and other forest management efforts with the help of the National Guard. The California Department of Forestry and …
David Stills, vice president, Global Risk Management at Arkansas-based Walmart Inc. has been named to the Risk Management Honor Roll by RIMS, the risk management society. Stills leads a team of over 550 risk management and risk finance professionals who …
Luke Figora, senior associate vice president and chief risk and compliance officer at Illinois’ Northwestern University has been selected as the 2019 RIMS Risk Manager of the Year. The RIMS Risk Manager of the Year program aims to raise the …
All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death toll at 23, authorities said …
Sometimes in forecasting tornadoes, you can get everything technically right, and yet it all goes horribly wrong. Three days before the killer Alabama tornado struck, government severe-storm meteorologists cautioned that conditions could be ripe for twisters in the Southeast on …
A school bus collided with a garbage truck in Indiana on Wednesday, seriously injuring one student and leaving 20 people hurt, authorities said. Preliminary information indicates that 18 students, the bus driver and the driver of the garbage truck were …
Pharmaceutical companies have asked for a 100-day postponement of an Oklahoma trial accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the nation’s opioid crisis. Several states have filed lawsuits against drugmakers but Oklahoma’s was the first set to go …
Authorities say a fire captain has died and three other firefighters were injured following a partial collapse of a burning home in southern Illinois. The Godfrey Fire Protection District says Jacob “Jake” Ringering suffered serious injuries when part of the …
Robert Muriel has been appointed director of the Illinois Department of Insurance (IDOI). Muriel is a civil and commercial lawyer with more than 20 years of experience representing small businesses and professionals in trials, appeals and arbitrations in state and …
