May 27, 2021
With voters shifting major new responsibilities to them, Pennsylvania’s state lawmakers are now tasked with deciding whether hundreds of state government regulations waived during the COVID-19 pandemic should be reinstated. This massive review is fueled by Tuesday’s referendum in which …
May 26, 2021
More than 50 people have been displaced by a fire at a Delaware apartment, according to the state fire marshal’s office. Officials estimate that Saturday afternoon’s fire at the Lighthouse Hill Apartments complex in Wilmington caused more then $1 million …
May 26, 2021
Drones, robots and self-driving cars were buzzing through downtown Westminster on Thursday for the ribbon-cutting of the first phase of MAGIC’s autonomous corridor project. MAGIC, which stands for Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory, is a technology nonprofit in Carroll County and …
May 26, 2021
A state lawmaker from Maine is facing a lawsuit from neighbors who say she and her husband cut down thousands of trees from their property to build a barn and horse paddock. Sasha and Christopher Malone filed the lawsuit against …
May 25, 2021
Hub International Northeast Hires Howard in New Jersey Hub International Northeast, a global insurance brokerage firm, has hired Arthur (Art) J. Howard as employee benefits regional sales officer. In this newly formed role, he will be responsible for overseeing the …
May 25, 2021
A worker fell to his death from a scaffold at a building under construction in Queens, officials said. Diego Lliguicota, 32, fell from a scaffold at 9:30 a.m. Saturday as he was trying to remove a ladder on the sixth …
May 25, 2021
Superstorm Sandy flooded lower Manhattan in 2012 with nearly 5 feet (1.5 m) of water, swamping the city’s subway and destroying homes and businesses. The storm and its aftermath were a wake-up call that New York City was not immune …
May 24, 2021
A Delaware man was sentenced on Friday to nearly four years in prison for his role in a plot to defraud a beauty product manufacturer out of more than $2 million. U.S. District Judge James Bredar in Baltimore also ordered …
May 24, 2021
A Morrisville, Pennsylvania, woman was sentenced to four to 23 months in county jail for submitting a series of false auto insurance claims over the past few years that defrauded two auto insurance companies of almost $40,000. Shaminga L. Davis …
May 24, 2021
Vermont Governor Phil Scott has signed a bill into law that restricts the use, manufacture and sale of products in Vermont containing a group of toxic chemicals collectively known as PFAS. The products include certain firefighting foams and equipment, food …