August 13, 2018
BNSF Railway has acknowledged that flooding played a role in a derailment that loosed thousands of gallons of oil into northwest Iowa floodwaters. Railroad spokesman Andy Williams wouldn’t say whether the train engineer knew or should have known about washed-out …
August 13, 2018
The theft of an empty plane by an airline worker who performed dangerous loops before crashing into a remote island in Washington’s Puget Sound illustrated what aviation experts have long known: One of the biggest potential perils for commercial air …
August 13, 2018
Big Island Mayor Harry Kim is planning to ask the Hawaii Legislature for $550 million for disaster recovery following the effects of the Kilauea volcano eruption. Kim said he discussed a conceptual plan with Gov. David Ige last week, and …
August 13, 2018
Gov. Mary Fallin’s office says four counties in northeastern Oklahoma have been designated disaster areas because of drought, making farmers and ranchers eligible for federal assistance. Fallin’s office said Friday that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue notified Fallin of …
August 13, 2018
Three teenagers from Kansas were killed and 10 other people were injured Friday after a church van heading for an outing crashed in southwestern Missouri. The wreck happened around 10:40 a.m. on Missouri Route 13, five miles north of Bolivar. …
August 13, 2018
Wholesale insurance broker and underwriting manager Burns & Wilcox, North America’s leading, has moved its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, office to a new location amid expansion plans. The company said its strategic move facilitates growth expectations and demonstrates Burns & Wilcox’s dedication …
August 13, 2018
A Florida company kept more than 100 temporary farmworkers in “inhumane” and “unsanitary” working conditions while not paying them what they were due as they harvested watermelons in southeast Missouri, according to federal labor officials. The U.S. Labor Department issued …
August 13, 2018
Louisiana’s Highway Safety Commission is touting new laws that toughen DWI provisions and create new penalties to stem dangerous driving during floods. The laws, passed during this year’s regular legislative session, took effect Aug. 1. Anyone convicted of driving while …
August 13, 2018
A San Francisco jury has ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit was the first of thousands …
August 13, 2018
It was California’s biggest fire yet. In late July and August, wildfires devastated an area north of San Francisco far bigger than New York City, destroying more than 100 homes and injuring two fire fighters. It’s just one in a …