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Texas Claims Adjuster Ordered to Cease Business in Louisiana for Allegedly Withholding Payments

Investigators from the Office of Insurance Fraud and Enforcement at the Louisiana Department of Insurance on July 22 issued non-resident public adjuster Kade Austen Mitchell and his agency a cease-and-desist order and notice of suspension for improperly withholding, misappropriating, or …

Hidden Menace: Massive Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change

To the naked eye, the Mako Compressor Station outside the dusty West Texas crossroads of Lenorah appears unremarkable, similar to tens of thousands of oil and gas operations scattered throughout the oil-rich Permian Basin. What’s not visible through the chain-link …

Detective: Alex Jones ‘Most Dangerous’ Type of Attack Denier

The detective who led the investigation into the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack testified Tuesday that there are three types of people who deny that it happened and harass the victims’ families: the mentally ill, those who believed bad …

Trial Begins in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook Damages Lawsuit

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones repeatedly “lied and attacked the parents of murdered children” when he told his Infowars audience that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax, an attorney for one of the victim’s parents said Tuesday at …

People Moves: RSL Insurance in Texas Adds Colville; FIRST Names Riolo Relationship Manager

Houston, Texas-based RSL Insurance added Ryan Colville as an insurance advisor on the commercial business team. Colville will serve the insurance needs of business owners in the West Texas region. He previously worked in the agriculture business as an agronomy …

Neighbors Complained About Grass Before Texas Fire Disaster

Neighbors of an open field from which a grass fire spread into their suburban Dallas subdivision, destroying nine homes, had complained that the field’s owner wouldn’t mow the grass, officials said this week. The owner had the area in Balch …

Charter Spectrum Hit With $7.3B Verdict in Texas over Murder of 83-Year-Old

Charter Communications was hit with a combined $7.37 billion verdict – including $7 billion meant to punish the company – for systemic safety failures that led to the robbery and stabbing death of an 83-year-old woman by a cable repairman …

Woman Pleads Guilty in Louisiana Staged Auto Collision Scheme

United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that Stacie Wheaton, age 51, of Fairburn, Georgia, pled guilty on July 21, 2022 to count one (1) of her indictment, charging Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United …

North Texas Grass Fire Torches 20 Homes

A grass fire apparently sparked by a mower swept about 300 yards across a tinder-dry open field to a suburban Dallas subdivision Monday, burning through wooden fences and torching as many as 20 homes, officials said. The blaze in Balch …

Texas School Mask Mandate Ban Upheld by Federal Appeals Court

Texas Governor Greg Abbott can maintain his ban on school mask mandates, a federal appeals court ruled. A three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said that a group of disabled students failed to show …

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