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Multi-Vehicle Crash on Dallas Interstate Kills 4

DALLAS (AP) — A vehicle crossed into oncoming traffic on a Dallas interstate and collided with two other vehicles in a crash that left four people dead, police said. The multi-vehicle accident happened about 1 p.m. Saturday on Interstate 45 …

Nebraska Certifies Ballot Measures to Legalize Medical Marijuana

Nebraska certified two ballot measures Friday to legalize medical marijuana even though the state’s Republican attorney general said their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures, which could keep them from becoming law. Attorney General Mike Hilgers …

Iowa and Iowa State Athletes Join Civil Lawsuit Over State Gambling Sting

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ten more Iowa and Iowa State athletes and an Iowa basketball equipment manager ensnared in a 2023 state gambling sting joined a civil lawsuit Tuesday seeking unspecified monetary damages from the state and its public …

Pipe Fire Near Houston Forces Residents to Evacuate

Firefighters in the Houston suburb of La Porte were working to extinguish a pipeline fire that forced residents to evacuate some areas. The blast occurred at a valve station on a 20-inch (51-centimeter) pipeline operated by Energy Transfer LP, the …

Beware of Hidden Email Addresses: TN School Transferred $3M to Fake Account

A school district in Tennessee temporarily lost more than $3 million after a district employee was duped into sending funds to a fake vendor. The finance director for the Johnson County Board of Education, in northeast Tennessee, in March wired …

Cigna Sues Federal Trade Commission Over ‘Defamatory’ Report

Cigna Group’s Express Scripts sued the US Federal Trade Commission over a recent report that the company said demonizes pharmacy benefit managers and asked the court to order the agency to retract it. The lawsuit escalates the conflict between drug …

PCF Acquires Insurance Business of Top Insurance Associates in Washington

PCF Insurance Services acquired the insurance business of Top Insurance Associates in Snohomish, Washington. The Top Insurance Associates team will join PCF Insurance’s Fortiphi Insurance. Top Insurance Associates offers personal and commercial insurance services to individual and business clients in …

Coastal Carolina Gets 1,000-Year Rainfall Event From Storm System

Parts of North Carolina saw something Monday that has not been seen in hundreds, perhaps 1,000 years – 18 inches of rain in half a day. That’s “once in every 1,000 years!” the National Weather Service said on social media …

Maury, Donnelly & Parr Acquires Maryland’s Campion Agency

Baltimore-based Maury, Donnelly & Parr, Inc. (MDP) reported its acquisition of another Maryland insurance agency, Campion Insurance in Bel Air. MDP said the merger broadens its reach and service offerings across the Mid-Atlantic region, including in both commercial and personal …

People Moves: AXIS Names Chubb’s Mitchell as Head of Global Markets, Succeeding Gregory; Marsh McLennan Names De Bremme as CEO of Belgium & Luxembourg

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at AXIS Capital Holdings and Marsh McLennan. A summary of these new hires follows here. AXIS Names Chubb’s Mitchell as Head of Global Markets, Succeeding Gregory AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based …

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