After the deadly collapse of a parking structure in lower Manhattan, New York City building officials swept through dozens of parking garages and ordered four of them to immediately shutter because of structural defects that “deteriorated to the point where …
Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at a veterans’ home. Nearly 80 veterans died at the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke after contracting the coronavirus in one of …
President Joe Biden declared Florida’s Broward County a disaster area Friday, two weeks after record-breaking rain left parts of Fort Lauderdale and its suburbs flooded. Gov. Ron DeSantis had requested the declaration earlier this week. The declaration makes Broward residents …
A south Florida jury has awarded $5.5 million to a woman who sued her condominium association after years of water infiltration and mold that the woman blamed for the death of her longtime domestic partner in 2021. The Broward County …
A northeast Mississippi tire plant that was damaged by an April tornado is expected to restart production in June. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said this week that it was likely to take several months for its Cooper Tire plant …
Management shut down production Saturday at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee after three workers were struck by a vehicle on a walkway just outside the plant, authorities said. One person was killed, a second was critically injured and a third …
The chief of staff for an Atlanta-area sheriff has been charged with insurance fraud after an investigation found that he had lied about the circumstances of an accident. Braxton Tyree Cotton, 41, a major in the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, …
A scathing Federal Reserve report on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank released on Friday could be a boon to shareholders suing the defunct lender’s executives for allegedly hiding risks that led to its stunning downfall, legal experts said. The …
US regulators were rushing to resolve the First Republic Bank crisis Sunday after a midday deadline passed for submitting final bids to take over the struggling lender. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had asked banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co., …
A former chief financial officer of multiple special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling more than $5 million from them, and losing almost all of it trading meme stocks and cryptocurrencies. Cooper Morgenthau, …