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Crews Fight New Mexico Fires as Some Evacuations Lift
RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Authorities have lifted some evacuation orders for a mountain community in drought-stricken southern New Mexico as firefighters worked Saturday to contain a wind-driven blaze that killed two people and destroyed over 200 homes. The evacuation orders … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreUS Agencies: Industrial Control System Malware Discovered
BOSTON (AP) — Multiple U.S. government agencies issued a joint alert Wednesday warning of the discovery of a suite of malicious cyber tools created by unnamed advanced threat actors that are capable of sabotaging the energy sector and other critical … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreArizona Court Won’t Halt Sex Suits Naming Boy Scouts, Others
PHOENIX (AP)– Arizona victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America after the state Supreme Court rejected claims that a state law extending victims’ right to sue was unconstitutional. Arizona … Source: Claims Journal
Read More12 Injured in Shooting at South Carolina Mall; Three Detained
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Ten people were shot and two others injured in a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina’s capital that authorities do not believe was a random attack. Three people who had firearms have been … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreInjured Copperfield Trick Participant Loses Lawsuit Appeal
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld a jury’s findings that illusionist David Copperfield and the MGM Grand hotel-casino were not financially responsible for a British tourist’s injuries during a signature vanishing act at a Las Vegas … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFuture Seawalls: Higher, Stronger and Better for Marine Life
MIAMI (AP) — Seawalls, despite more natural innovations like “living” shorelines, aren’t going anywhere in Florida — except up. With thousands of miles of coastline facing two feet of sea level rise by 2060, some cities and counties, including Miami-Dade, … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJury Awards $450,000 to Employee Who Declined Birthday Party
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky jury has awarded a man $450,000 who sued his employer after he asked them not to celebrate his birthday at work — and they did it anyway. Kevin Berling told his manager at Gravity … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJudge Finds Tesla Liable to Black Former Worker who Alleged Bias, but Slashes Payout
A federal judge said on Wednesday Tesla Inc TSLA.O was liable to a Black elevator operator who said the electric car company ignored racial abuse at the factory where he worked, but reduced a nearly $137 million jury award to … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFuture Liability Releases at Center of Boy Scouts Bankruptcy
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Protecting local Boy Scouts of America councils and troop sponsoring organizations from future liability for child sex abuse claims is critical to the national group’s reorganization plan, BSA attorneys told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday. Attorneys … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreBlizzard in North Dakota, Tornadoes Reported in Iowa and Minnesota
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A possible tornado tore up a small Minnesota town and a blizzard forced the closure of the North Dakota Capitol, schools and roads, as spring storms wreaked havoc across the Upper Midwest. In Iowa, a tornado … Source: Claims Journal
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