A New Jersey family woke up Saturday morning to every room in their house engulfed in flames. Multiple children were inside when an explosion rocked their house Vernon Avenue in the Port Reading section of Woodbridge around 9:30 a.m.
Two men have died after a boat crash at Lake Havasu. It happened Saturday around 12:30 p.m. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office says a large boat that was traveling at high speeds had crashed and then sank.
Although the actual cause of last week’s more than 42,000-acre grass fire in southern El Paso County hasn’t been determined, authorities said Saturday that it was started by a person.
Tornado warnings were issued for many Alabama counties earlier Sunday afternoon. Though the National Weather Service hasn’t confirmed any tornadoes at this time, there are reports of storm damage rolling in.
A bill filed last week could potentially prevent insurance companies from charging customers based on their educational background and/or income. Specifically, the bill — sponsored by a New Jersey congresswoman — would prohibit certain income information from being used to set insurance rates.
Marsh, a global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, announced the first commercial Blockchain solution for proof of insurance, Business Wire reported April 16. With this application of Blockchain technology, Marsh aims to transfigure the certificate of insurance process “from complicated and manual to streamlined and transparent”.
One home was destroyed and two others heavily damaged from fire Thursday night in West Fargo. Dark smoke could be seen for a couple of miles as the fire quickly burned through the home at 580 22nd street east and spread to the homes on both sides.
An explosion set off a huge fire at Valero Energy Corp’s 225,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Texas City, Texas, refinery on Thursday afternoon but the fire was quickly contained, according the City of Texas City Emergency Management office.
The battle against the US opioid crisis rages on. The epidemic, which takes the lives of over 100 Americans every day from overdoses, has been declared a public health emergency by President Trump and remains a top-of-mind issue for various industries nationwide.
Guilford County crews now know that the EF2 tornado that struck Sunday afternoon left a nearly 1,000-foot-wide path of destruction on the city’s east side that stretched 16 miles.
I-76 was shut down both ways on Tuesday afternoon after a pileup in the westbound lane. The incident took place about four miles west of Fort Morgan after a strong gust of wind created extremely low visibility.
A Wheatfield hit-and-run fatality in 2014 continues to reverberate through local courtrooms. The driver who killed Ryan Fischer, 16, of North Tonawanda, faces charges of illegally padding an insurance claim he filed after the teenager’s mother, who was drunk at the time, rammed his garage door and damaged his vehicle.
