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#1 Two Killed When Pickup Hits Amish Buggy in Upstate New York
Sep 22 2023 // ALEXANDRIA, N.Y. (AP) — A pickup truck struck the back of an Amish buggy in northern New York, killing two children who were 1 and 3 years old and injuring four others, police said Thursday. A pickup truck driven by...
#2 Three-Quarters of Firms Globally Are Not Ready for New ESG Rules: KPMG Report
Sep 26 2023 // Three-quarters of companies globally are not ready to have their environmental, social and governance (ESG) data audited externally months before new regulations kick in, according to a new report from KPMG published on...
#3 Six Killed When Train Strikes SUV at Unguarded Florida Rail Crossing
Sep 26 2023 // PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) — Three adults, two teens and a child from an extended family died after their SUV was struck by a freight train at an unguarded crossing in central Florida, authorities said. Another adult...
#4 Two British Teens and Their Audacious Hack of Nvidia, Grand Theft Auto and Uber
Aug 25 2023 // At 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 last year, a group of City of London police officers waited outside room M15 at the Travelodge Bicester, a one-star budget hotel in Oxfordshire, England, for the right moment to bust in. On the other...
#5 Six Former Mississippi Law Officers Plead Guilty in Torturing of Two Men
Aug 16 2023 // BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — Six white former Mississippi law officers pleaded guilty on Monday to state charges for torturing two Black men in a racist assault. All six had recently admitted their guilt in a connected...
#6 Three Georgia Decisions Have Some Comp Attorneys Worried. Claimants Not So Much
Aug 14 2023 // After three major Georgia appeals court decisions have gone against employers in the last five years, some insurance defense attorneys are concerned that the state’s workers’ compensation laws have become...
#7 One Year Old, US Climate Law is Turbocharging Clean Energy, Raising Issues for Insurers
Jul 25 2023 // On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted...
#8 Five Family Members And a Commercial Fisherman Neighbor Killed in Alaska Landslide
Nov 27 2023 // Authorities identified those missing or killed in an Alaska landslide this week as five family members and their neighbor, a commercial fisherman who made a longshot bid for the state`s lone seat in the U. S. House last...
#9 Two Rival Robotaxi Services OK’d to Operate Throughout San Francisco
Aug 14 2023 // California regulators approved an expansion that will allow two rival robotaxi services to operate throughout San Francisco at all hours, despite safety worries spurred by recurring problems with unexpected stops and other...
#10 Six Killed, Businesses Destroyed as Severe Storms Hit Central Tennessee
Dec 11 2023 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Severe storms that tore through central Tennessee killed six people Saturday and sent about two dozen to the hospital as homes and businesses were damaged in multiple cities. Three people,...
#11 3M Agrees to Pay More Than $5.5 Billion Over Military Earplugs
Aug 28 2023 // 3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the US military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said. The settlement would avert a...
#12 Three Passengers Sue Alaska Airlines After Off-Duty Pilot Accused of Trying to Cut Engines
Nov 6 2023 // Three passengers sued Alaska Airlines, saying they suffered emotional distress from an incident last month in which an off-duty pilot is accused of trying to shut down the engines of a plane while catching a ride in the...
#13 Four Dead, Another Missing After Blast Destroys 3 Structures in Pennsylvania
Aug 14 2023 // Four people were dead and a fifth was unaccounted for following a house explosion in western Pennsylvania that destroyed three structures and damaged at least a dozen others Saturday morning, authorities said. Allegheny...
#14 Two New Jersey Firefighters Died Battling Fire on Cargo Ship Carrying 5,000 Cars
Jul 7 2023 // Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port, Newark`s fire chief said Thursday. Responding firefighters found five to...
#15 3M, DuPont Defeat Massive Class Action Over Forever Chemicals
Nov 28 2023 // A U.S. appeals court on Monday handed 3M, Corteva Inc subsidiary E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co and other manufacturers of toxic so-called “forever chemicals” a big win in their fight against legal liability...
#16 Two-Thirds of North America Could Face Power Shortages This Winter
Nov 9 2023 // More than half of the U.S. and parts of Canada, home to around 180 million people, could fall short of electricity during extreme cold again this winter due to lacking natural gas infrastructure, the North American...
#17 Six Years After They Began, Strems’ Massive Litigation Actions Detailed in Book
Oct 25 2023 // The story of disbarred Florida plaintiffs’ attorney Scot Strems has been told, in bits and pieces, in this publication and others over the last six years. But the saga and Strems’ alleged actions and the havoc...
#18 Six Presumed Dead After Bridge Collapse, as Port Disruptions Hit Cars to Coal
Mar 27 2024 // The 1.6 mile-long bridge collapsed in a matter of seconds. The catastrophic consequences are set to stretch out for weeks. As much as 2.5 million tons of coal, hundreds of cars made by Ford Motor Co., and General Motors...
#19 Four New Offshore Wind Power Projects Planned for New Jersey Shore
Aug 9 2023 // Wind power developers proposed four new projects off the New Jersey Shore on Friday, a surge that would more than double the number of wind farms built off its coast if they are approved by regulators. At least two of them...
#20 Four Inmates in Problem-Plagued Atlanta Jail Have Died in the Span of a Month
Sep 1 2023 // A 34-year-old man who was being held at a problem-plagued jail in Atlanta died after he was taken to a hospital. He was the fourth person to die in Fulton County custody in the span of a month. A jail officer doing dinner...
