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Investigations Begin Into Deadly New York City Apartment Building Fire

Doctors raced Monday to save survivors of New York City’s deadliest fire in three decades as authorities began investigating how thick smoke could billow through the high-rise, trapping many families inside and killing 19 people, including nine children. Dozens of …

Life Insurance Corp. of India’s IPO Prospectus Could Be Filed in Final Week of January

Life Insurance Corporation of India could file a prospectus in the final week of January for what would be the nation’s biggest initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The state-run insurer plans to file the …

Fire Crews Put Out Fire at Condemned Duluth Hotel

Fire crews were fighting a large fire at a condemned hotel in Duluth, Minnesota Jan. 10 in subzero conditions. Duluth fire officials say the roof of the old Seaway Hotel in the Lincoln Park Craft District has collapsed and all …

South Dakota Lawmakers Consider Recreational Marijuana Legalization

South Dakota lawmakers spent the last year figuring out what to do with two voter-approved measures to legalize both medical and recreational marijuana. While a medical program has been implemented, recreational pot remains illegal after the state Supreme Court ruled …

People Moves: Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon Adds Partee; Alliant Adds McCorkle as Vice President

Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon Adds Stormie Partee Boyd, Shackelford, Barnett and Dixon has named Stormie Partee as the Commercial Team Lead and Operations Manager. In this role, she will draw on her 18+ years’ experience to deliver innovative operating …

Citizens Starts Massive Florida Property Inspection Program This Month

Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is reminding agents that it is greatly expanding the number of property inspections, starting this month, in an effort to reduce its exposure. The inspections will come at no cost to the policyholder, and will be …

Oregon Rolling Out Hospital Crisis Care Standards as COVID Surges

Oregon hospitals have new interim guidelines to help them determine which patients should get lifesaving care if the current COVID-19 surge forces them to choose between people because of a lack of beds, staff or critical medical equipment. The guidelines …

Pandemic Adding Cost to Rebuild After Colorado Wildfire

Rex and Barba Hickman’s home of 23 years near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains has been reduced to a blackened heap by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. Before the Dec. 30 blaze, which ripped through nearly 1,100 …

More Coastal Areas Join Forces Over New Flood Risk Rating System

Despite studies showing a new federal flood-risk rating is more equitable and accurate, opposition to higher flood insurance rates continues to build in some parts of the country. In coastal Harrison County, Mississippi, county officials voted Monday to join the …

California Lawmakers to Consider Universal Healthcare Proposal

California lawmakers will start debating whether to create the nation’s first universal health care system in a key measure of whether the proposal will muster the support it needs to pass this year — and be sent to voters who …

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