All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 14 2008 // Two Fosston men are charged with first-degree arson in a string of fires that burned buildings in northwestern Minnesota.Levi Coyer and Nick Schouviller, both 19 years old, were arrested on August 8 in Fosston. The August...
Aug 7 2008 // New York City police say two men washing windows at a building in downtown Manhattan were killed when the vehicle carrying their lift tipped over. Detective John Sweeney says the accident occurred early Tuesday at the...
Aug 5 2008 // A New York contractor and the sub-contractor he hired are both facing charges of workers’ compensation fraud following their arrests by New York State Police.Police arrested Phillip Gish, 70, of East Aurora, N.Y. on...
Jul 25 2008 // A year after a refinery oil spill into floodwaters blanketed a third of this southeast Kansas town, little remains in the area that was damaged.The oil-drenched houses are gone, and only a few homeowners have rebuilt....
Jun 16 2008 // As an insurance agent, there is nothing wrong with getting help when need be. In fact, the agents who search for outside help are those who are making the big money. If you want to join them, it is time for you to get...
Jun 2 2008 // Three Twin Cities lawyers make up a special panel determining how much state money victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse will get.Minnesota Chief Justice Russell Anderson has appointed Susan Holden to chair the...
May 19 2008 // Eight lawsuits have been filed against companies involved with the heating system that malfunctioned at the Redstone Apartments near the University of Vermont in January, 2005, killing one person and sickening others.The...
May 19 2008 // U.S. property/casualty insurers are expected to pay homeowners and businesses an estimated $3.35 billion for first-quarter property losses resulting from nine catastrophes.The nine events identified as catastrophes by the...
May 9 2008 // Once you are established as an insurance agent, you will want to do whatever you can to improve your marketing power. The better your insurance marketing plan the more money you are going to earn. With the five tips below...
May 9 2008 // Unlike Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, one year after a devastating tornado destroyed their town, many in Greensburg, Kan. are still not able to go home. Some 700 residents remain in the town that once had a population of...
Apr 21 2008 // 3M Co. will probably pay between $50 million and $56 million to clean up sites in the eastern Twin Cities that have been contaminated by chemicals that were once used in some of the company’s best-known products.The...
Apr 9 2008 // 3M Co. will probably pay between $50 million and $56 million to clean up sites in the eastern Twin Cities that have been contaminated by chemicals that were once used in some of the company’s best-known products.The...
Apr 7 2008 // Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has named Daniel Dilzer and David Schoolcraft to the state Workers’ Compensation Commission.Dilzer, 41, is a lawyer with the New Britain-based law firm Davila & Dilzer. He serves...
Apr 2 2008 // Two of the four women fired from town jobs in Hooksett (New Hampshire) for gossiping have settled lawsuits against the town.The town’s insurance company is paying $65,000 each to Joanne Drewniak and Jessica Skorupski...
Mar 24 2008 // More than eight years after a New Year’s Eve fire at Michigan State University, four people have been indicted related to an arson incident federal authorities said was an act of domestic terrorism.The government...
Mar 18 2008 // Six people, including a one-time Fargo mayor and a former vice president at Montana’s workers’ compensation fund, have applied to be the interim chief executive officer of North Dakota’s Workforce Safety...
Mar 13 2008 // More than eight years after a New Year’s Eve fire at Michigan State University, four people have been indicted related to an arson incident federal authorities said Tuesday was an act of domestic terrorism.The...
Mar 10 2008 // Two Oklahoma cities are among the 35 safest in the nation, according rankings based on the FBI’s uniform crime report. One Texas town, Sugarland, was among the five safest.Broken Arrow, Okla., was listed as the...
Mar 10 2008 // A federal court jury in Hartford, Connecticut, has found four former General Re Corp. executives and one former American International Group executive guilty of corporate fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from...
Feb 22 2008 // A New York court has found two former executives at insurance broker Marsh guilty of monopoly, but acquitted the two of all other charges stemming from a bid-rigging case brought by the state’s attorney general,...