All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2019 // Authorities say a huge fire has destroyed two large yachts in South Florida, sending flames skyward and leaving millions of dollars in losses.No injuries were reported in Saturday’s pre-dawn fire. Fort Lauderdale...
Nov 18 2019 // Three people were convicted of manslaughter Friday in the 2015 East Village building explosion that killed two men.They also were found guilty in Manhattan state Supreme Court of assault charges for injuries to 13 people...
Oct 30 2019 // Two Georgia suspects have been arrested and charged for allegedly defrauding Lemonade Insurance Company.Special Agents in the Criminal Investigations Division at the Georgia Department of Insurance assisted with the arrest...
Oct 30 2019 // Four members of one family were injured Sunday when a small plane crashed on takeoff from an airport in upstate New York.According to the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office, the single-engine Beechcraft came down just...
Oct 28 2019 // Five defendants have been indicted in Louisiana for an alleged insurance fraud involving a staged vehicular accident scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.Damian K. Labeaud and Lucinda Thomas of New Orleans, and...
Oct 21 2019 // Four large drug companies reached a last-minute $260 million legal settlement over their role in the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic, averting the first federal trial that was scheduled to start Monday morning in...
Oct 18 2019 // Since an unprecedented blackout plunged millions of Californians into darkness last week, residents and state officials have questioned how utility giant PG&E Corp. came to the decision to cut the lights.Now they have...
Oct 16 2019 // Three drug distributors are in talks with state and local governments to settle thousands of opioid lawsuits for $18 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the...
Oct 11 2019 // Authorities in Washington, D.C., say two regional transit agency workers were hurt when one commuter train rear-ended another. WTOP-FM reports D.C. Fire and EMS tweeted that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit...
Oct 8 2019 // Two public school districts on Monday sued Juul Labs Inc, accusing the company of endangering their students and draining their resources by marketing its addictive e-cigarettes to teenagers.The St. Charles, Missouri, and...
Oct 7 2019 // Two former employees of a Connecticut-based restaurant chain say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse by a manager.Gianna Aconfora and Maizzy Douchette allege in the suit filed...
Oct 1 2019 // Authorities in Pennsylvania say three people have been hurt in a helicopter crash at a state fair.WNEP-TV reports a pilot and two passengers were in the helicopter when it crashed Saturday about 7:30 p.m. in the parking...
Sep 30 2019 // A company that’s facing lawsuits and public scrutiny over pollution from a north Alabama plant says it’s suspending some manufacturing work because of environmental reasons.A statement issued by 3M Co. says it...
Sep 25 2019 // Authorities are investigating an explosion in an underground tank at an upstate New York gas station that killed a worker.State police say the explosion happened Friday afternoon at a Speedway station in the town of...
Sep 11 2019 // Coast Guard rescuers pulled four trapped men alive from a capsized cargo ship Monday, drilling into the hull’s steel plates to extract the crew members more than a day after their vessel overturned while leaving a...
Sep 10 2019 // Connecticut public health officials say they are now investigating five cases of lung disease in state residents possibly related to the use of e-cigarettes or vaping products.The state Department of Public Health on...
Aug 26 2019 // One General Agency (OGA) has acquired the renewal rights to the book of business previously owned by Oklahoma City-based Acton Inc. (Acton).Acton President Eric Acton will be joining the OGA staff. One General Agency...
Aug 19 2019 // One of 86 people who were killed in the deadliest wildfire in California history has been identified.The Butte County Sheriff’s office said on Friday it positively identified the remains of 68-year-old Judith Sipher...
Aug 16 2019 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance for independent insurance agencies, has announced that two Miami, Fla.-based independent insurance agencies have recently joined the Alliance.Gil &...
Jul 23 2019 // A shipping business in Ohio says two workers died after they were trapped in a silo filled with grain.The workers became trapped Friday morning inside the silo operated by The Andersons in Toledo. A Toledo fire department...