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Canadian Wildfires Shutter Sawmills, Drive Up Lumber Prices
WINNIPEG, Manitoba –– Canada’s worst-ever spring wildfire season has forced its forestry industry to shutter sawmills, driving up lumber prices and setting production back for months just as housing construction has slowed due to higher costs and a tight labor … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreLawyers Blame ChatGPT for Tricking Them Into Citing Bogus Case Law
Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT last Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFollowing Owners, Thousands of Cows, Buffaloes Evacuated Away from restive Philippine Volcano
DARAGA, Philippines (AP) – Philippine authorities were evacuating more than 2, 000 cows and water buffaloes away from a restive volcano to minimize potential losses in case of a major eruption, officials said Sunday. The farm animals were being herded … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCracked Floors, Bowed Walls: Many Warnings but No Action at Iowa Building Before Deadly Collapse
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — So many people knew something wasn’t right at the 116- year-old Davenport apartment building. The structural engineer who documented the shaky wall. The head of a masonry company who wouldn’t let his workers onto the … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreElevated Section of Heavily Traveled I-95 Collapses in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – An elevated section of Interstate 95 collapsed early Sunday in Philadelphia after a vehicle caught fire, closing the main north-south highway on the East Coast and threatening to upend travel in parts of the densely populated Northeast, … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreOregon to Crack Down on Illegal Pot Growers by Holding Landowners Responsible
SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon has long been known as a mecca for high-quality marijuana, but that reputation has come with a downside: illegal growers who offer huge amounts of cash to lease or buy land and then leave behind … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreLake Powell Houseboat Fire Was Accidental, Investigators Say
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators have ruled a fire that damaged several houseboats on Lake Powell, a popular destination on the Utah-Arizona line, was an accident, the National Park Service announced Friday. However the source of last week’s blaze at … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreLawmakers in Mont. and La. Pass Bills to Require Disclosure of Litigation Funding
Lawmakers in two states passed bills this year to require disclosure of litigation funding contracts. Business groups are pushing for similar rules in federal courts nationwide. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte on May 2 signed into law Senate Bill 269, which … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreLNG Developer Venture Global Spars with Customers over Cargoes
HOUSTON – Venture Global LNG, which is building three multi-billion dollar U.S. liquefied natural gas processing plants, is sparring with two customers of its first project over mechanical failures that have prevented commercial deliveries a year after initial shipments began. … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreOfficials: Devastating 2021 Colorado Blaze Caused by Smoldering Fire Outside Home and Power Lines
DENVER (AP) – Embers from a smoldering scrap wood fire outside a home days earlier and a sparking power line caused a Colorado wildfire fanned by high winds that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and left two people dead, authorities said … Source: Claims Journal
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