Safety officials in Minnesota are urging motorists to safely share the road with farm equipment as the harvest gears up. The Minnesota Department of Transportation says drivers need to watch out for slow-moving farm machinery transporting crops to markets, grain …
A Nebraska-based unit of the Toro Co. has been awarded $24.3 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against Briggs & Stratton. The Lincoln Journal Star reports the jury agreed with Exmark Manufacturing’s arguments that Briggs & Stratton violated a patent …
Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Superior, Wis., a heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment …
An effort to build cable barriers on Iowa’s highways has helped reduce the number of cross-median fatal crashes. After 21 people died as a result of cross-median collisions in 2010, state officials installed 177 miles of cable median barriers. Since …
An Uber Technologies Inc. company accused the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission in a lawsuit of functioning as a cartel with cab companies to ban its ride-sharing service in what it says is the largest U.S. city without it. Uber, …
A pair of tornadoes along the Kansas-Missouri border with speeds of up to about 110 mph damaged homes and caused minor injuries, officials said. The first twister touched down around 6:30 p.m. Friday about 40 miles south of Kansas City, …
Officials in the village of Crestwood, Ill., are moving toward a possible $15 million payout to settle lawsuits over the Chicago suburb’s decades-long use of contaminated well water in its drinking supply. The Daily Southtown reports that village trustees approved …
Seven ethanol tanker cars derailed and at least one caught fire Saturday in southeastern South Dakota, according to Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. The company said no one was hurt. The 98-car train carrying ethanol derailed about 6:15 a.m. in …
Columbia Insurance Group (Columbia) welcomed Shane Martinez to its executive team as the new vice president and Omaha, Neb., branch manager. Martinez is a seasoned insurance professional with more than 20 years of personal, commercial and farm underwriting experience. Columbia …
A fire at a natural gas fracking well that forced evacuations and killed thousands of fish in eastern Ohio last summer will result in fines of about $223,000 against an international oil and gas company. Environmental regulators announced the fines …
