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Tips to Prevent Crashes After Daylight Saving Time Ends
Drivers are being reminded about some driving hazards that can lead to crashes when Daylight Saving Time ends. For the last three years, Ohio saw an average 15.7 percent increase in total crashes ...
U.S. Auto Safety Agency Ends Ford Engine Failure Probe After Recall, Warranty Extension
The U.S. government's auto safety regulator has ended a 2 1/2-year investigation into Ford engine failures after the company replaced engines or extended the warranty on some vehicles. The National ...
Reality Show Star Pleads Guilty in Multimillion-Dollar Crop Insurance Fraud
Reality television star Steve McBee provided false information for crop insurance benefits, resulting in $3,158,923 federal crop insurance benefits and subsidies he was not entitled to receive. The ...
Drought Watch Declared in NYC, Residents Asked to Conserve Water
New York's mayor urged residents to take shorter showers, fix dripping faucets and otherwise conserve water, issuing a drought watch Saturday after a parched October here and in much of the United ...
The U.S. Has Sustained 24 Billion-Dollar Disasters in 2024
Since 1980, there have been 400 weather and climate disasters where overall damages/costs reached or exceeded $1 billion (including CPI adjustment to 2024), according to the National Centers for ...
More Than Half of All Employees in Finance, Insurance Work Remotely: Triple-I
Data as of September 24, 2024, shows that 63.7 percent of workers in Finance and Industry spend some of their time in a remote work environment. The analysis, conducted by the Triple-I, shows that ...
2024 Hurricane Season Racked Up 347,000 Flood-Damaged Cars So Far: CARFAX
As many as 347,000 vehicles have been flood-damaged so far by the 2024 hurricane season, according to the latest CARFAX estimate. Hurricane Milton added as many as 120,000 vehicles in Florida, on top ...
Las Vegas Bottled Water Company Hit With $5.2B Verdict in Liver Damage Lawsuit
A jury in Nevada has delivered a $5.2 billion award in the latest large-sum lawsuit against a former Las Vegas-based bottled water company that was found responsible for causing liver damage in ...