7 08, 2023

Best Downgrades Alabama Muni Insurance Pool, Citing Law Enforcement Liability

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The A.M. Best financial rating firm has downgraded the financial strength rating of the Alabama Municipal Insurance Corp., citing weather losses as well as law enforcement liability costs. “AMIC’s law enforcement liability segment has been impacted by claims going to …

7 08, 2023

Fed Appeals Court Upholds CT Law That Ended Religious Vaccine Exemption

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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities. The decision comes about a year and a half after a …

7 08, 2023

Texas Construction Company Fined $266K For Failure to Correct Fall Protection Systems Hazards

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Despite an extensive history of serious and repeat violations dating back more than a decade, a Houston, Texas steel erection company again failed to correct fall protection systems hazards, a federal workplace safety investigation has found. Investigators with the U.S. …

7 08, 2023

Western Kentucky, Tennessee Again Hit by Flooding

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Flooding in northwest Tennessee and western Kentucky has shut down roads and prompted some home evacuations. Several inches of rain fell over 24 hours in the region along the Mississippi River, causing flash flooding. Residents in the Green Acres mobile …

7 08, 2023

South Louisiana Parish Sues to Block Port of New Orleans` $1.8 billion Container Port Project

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A south Louisiana parish is suing the Port of New Orleans to block it from building a planned $1.8 billion container facility. The St. Bernard Parish District Attorney`s Office filed the lawsuit this week in 34th …

7 08, 2023

Social Media Influencer Facing Riot Charges After Mayhem Breaks Loose in NYC

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Social media influencer Kai Cenat is facing charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City, after the online streamer drew thousands of his followers, many of them teenagers, with promises of giving away electronics, …

7 08, 2023

Wisconsin Teenager Charged After Throwing Gas on a Bonfire, Triggering Explosion That Burned 17

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SHAWANO, Wis. (AP) __ A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with triggering a bonfire explosion that injured more than a dozen people. Prosecutors in northeastern Wisconsin`s Shawano County charged Sam Armstrong, 18, on Thursday with 13 counts of injury by …

7 08, 2023

Japan to Release Fukushima Water as Soon as August: Reports

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The Japanese government is preparing to start releasing treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site into the sea as early as late August, local newspapers including the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will meet with cabinet members …

7 08, 2023

St. Louis Police Protesters Being Receiving Shares of $4.9 million Settlement

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ST. LOUIS (AP) – Some of the people who were arrested during a 2017 protest over the acquittal of a white police officer in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith have started receiving their share of a $4.9 million …

7 08, 2023

Purdue Asks Supreme Court Not to Block Opioid Settlement During Appeal

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Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to delay its multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy settlement resolving thousands of lawsuits against it over the opioid epidemic. The department’s bankruptcy watchdog last …