Bill Harr thought his neighbor was joking when he told him his house was on fire. He was working at the U.S. Postal Service when his neighbor called Friday afternoon to alert him. “I said ‘Yeah, right,’ ” Harr said.
An Atlanta cyberattack has caused widespread city-run program outages and raised fears about the security of financial and personal data belonging to government workers, residents and others who have used online services provided by Georgia’s capital city, officials said on Friday.
Advocates who have been pushing for renewal of the U.S. federal flood insurance programs in the wake of last year’s devastating hurricanes and floods praised Congress for extending the program through July 31.
The family of a truck driver killed in last week’s collapse of a pedestrian bridge near Florida International University in Miami has filed a lawsuit against two companies involved in the project, saying the roadway below should have been shut down as work continued on the span.
For those looking for rental vehicles because of Monday’s tornado damage in the region, the choices are slim to none, according to local car rental agencies. “This is the worst storm-related rush for cars I’ve seen since I started here in 1989,” said Lori Merrell, rental manager of Hertz in Decatur.
National Weather Service storm survey teams are out in the field again today surveying damage from Monday’s severe storms. The weather service offices in both Huntsville and Birmingham sent out multiple teams on Tuesday as well and have been able to confirm at least 13 tornadoes in Alabama so far.
A firefighter was killed battling a five-alarm blaze late Thursday night in Harlem. FDNY officials identified the firefighter as 37-year-old Michael R. Davidson, a 15-year department veteran.
The daughter of the woman killed by an Uber [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle in Arizona has retained a personal injury lawyer, underlying the potential high stakes of the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is having trouble serving a court summons to a binary options trader charged in January with stealing more than $1 million in bitcoin.
Two people were rescued and several other residents were displaced after a fire in Harford County early Thursday morning.<br />Firefighters were called around 2:30 a.m. to a three-story apartment building on Raven Wood Court in Belcamp, officials said.
Founder and CEO Phil Edmundson has found a new direction with Corvus Insurance Holdings Inc., his latest venture in an industry where he has already made a significant mark.
More than 90,000 customers were without power overnight after another major nor’easter — the fourth in three weeks — pummeled the Interstate 95 corridor with as much as 19 inches of snow on the first full day of spring.
A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.
