All the headlines from our Idaho Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2007 // To enhance the services available to insurance producers and companies on its Web site, the the Idaho Department of Insurance is implementing a new licensing data base system known as Sircon for States. Beginning Sept. 18,...
Aug 20 2007 // With major fires burning in more than a dozen states and officials on high alert for more, authorities are scrambling to contain the blazes and keep new ones from igniting, despite unfavorable weather and strained...
Aug 20 2007 // Some states face tougher seasons than others but every state must deal with the threatHistorically, the lion’s share of in-season wildland fires occurs in the country’s western regions, however, as evidenced by...
Aug 20 2007 // No region of country is immune to wildland firesSome states face tougher seasons than others but every state must deal with the threat Historically, the lion’s share of in-season wildland fires occurs in the...
Aug 17 2007 // Hundreds of homes across Idaho remained threatened by wildfires this week, and meteorologists said firefighters shouldn’t expect any help from the weather.More than 611,000 acres, or 954 square miles, had been...
Aug 14 2007 // Two cabins and a large outbuilding burned as wind-whipped flames flared 200 feet high Sunday on the Zena/Loon wildfire in north-central Idaho.No injuries were reported, but firefighters struggled to protect buildings in...
Aug 13 2007 // A north Idaho school district is being sued by the parents of two junior high school students who say their children were burned when their face paint was removed after they waited too long to do it themselves.Georgeanne...
Aug 7 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott cited Minnesota-based Lifetime Fitness and subsidiaries LTF Club Management Company L.L.C. and LTF Club Operations Company Inc., for systematically exposing its customers to identity...
Aug 6 2007 // Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has signed legislation that requires businesses and government agencies to promptly notify consumers when private information such as Social Security and driver’s license numbers have...
Aug 6 2007 // SafecoSeattle-based Safeco has expanded its sales organization from five to nine regions, and has named executives to lead two of the territories. “Independent insurance agents have consistently told us they want...
Jul 30 2007 // In an effort to bolster personal privacy and intellectual property rights, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced that District Attorneys in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego will begin receiving funds...
Jul 17 2007 // Merck & Co. is urging a New Jersey judge to slash a jury’s $47.5 million award to an Idaho postal worker who successfully sued the drugmaker over a heart attack he blamed on Merck’s since-withdrawn Vioxx...
Jul 13 2007 // The Idaho Department of Insurance has reinstated the license of Washington Casualty Co., a subsidiary of FinCor Holdings Inc., allowing it to underwrite insurance in the state. The reinstated license validates WCC’s...
Jul 11 2007 // A man convicted of trying to sell the Social Security numbers and other information for thousands of people to undercover agents was sentenced to five years in federal prison, authorities said.Binyamin Schwartz, 29, of Oak...
Jul 5 2007 // Comer Wilson hasn’t had to show his ID to buy beer in a while. Maybe it’s the 66-year-old man’s long white beard.Starting July 1, gray hair was no longer good enough. Wilson and everyone else are now...
Jun 25 2007 // FinCor Holdings Inc. announced on Friday, June 22 that its Washington Casualty Co. (WCC) subsidiary has had its license to underwrite insurance fully reinstated in Idaho by the Idaho Department of Insurance. FinCor...
Jun 12 2007 // Calling the federal Real ID Act “repugnant” to the state and federal constitutions, New Hampshire lawmakers voted to join other states — including neighboring Maine — in rejecting the federal Real ID Act as...
Jun 8 2007 // Gov. John Baldacci is expected to sign a bill prohibiting Maine from implementing Real ID, the national identity card system that’s been vilified by critics as unworkable and too expensive, a spokesman said...
Jun 4 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ohio-based CNG Financial Corporation and subsidiaries Check ‘n Go of Texas Inc. and Southwestern & Pacific Specialty Finance Inc. have been systematically exposing their...
Jun 4 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ohio-based CNG Financial Corporation and subsidiaries Check ‘n Go of Texas Inc. and Southwestern & Pacific Specialty Finance Inc. have been systematically exposing their...