Thieves are utilizing major cell phone providers to pull off a new scam and make a quick buck. The expensive nightmare is happening more and more in our area.
Weeks after devastating fires tore through Southern California, heavy rains sent mudslides rolling down hillsides in Santa Barbara County on Tuesday, leaving 13 people dead. The storm uprooted trees and homes, and left mangled cars and abandoned surfboards on the streets.
It took more than 200 firefighters to knock out a massive fire at a six-story apartment building in Washington Heights that was started by a woman making toast in her kitchen.
A large chunk of ice apparently fell from a building in Manhattan, crushing the roof of a parked vehicle. It happened just after 4 p.m. Tuesday on Charlton Street in SoHo.
Debra Salem-Drake was packing to evacuate as a wildfire moved within a half-mile of her Ventura home when she got a surprising call. Her insurance company was offering to come spray her home with fire-blocking gel...for free.
A South Florida attorney is facing time in federal prison after he admitted his role in a $23 million auto insurance fraud linked to local chiropractors’ clinics.
Led by a sharp drop in pedestrian deaths, overall traffic fatalities in New York City fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2017 to their lowest on record, thanks at least in part to an ongoing safety improvement program, city officials said on Monday.
Thousands of Southern Californians fled their homes on Monday as a powerful rain storm that could cause flash floods and trigger mudslides soaked steep slopes where a series of intense wildfires burned off vegetation last month.
Weather and climate-related disasters cost the United States a record $306 billion in 2017, the third-warmest year on record, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday.
Water damage is one of the greatest threats to households in the US. It has more of an impact than fire and theft combined, and yet the vast majority of homes are not equipped to mitigate or prevent the damages that could occur.
Those hoping for clarity over the future of federal flood insurance in the United States are still waiting after Congress passed a third short-term extension to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) back on December 22.
Getting t-boned by another driver in West Palm Beach was the first surprise, Lynn Sparks said. Another was learning Florida is one of only two states that do not require drivers to carry liability insurance to cover injuries to others.
Kennebunkport, Maine, is cleaning up in the bitter cold, removing snow and repairing flood damage from Thursday’s blizzard. Maine recorded the third highest tide during a strong winter storm, creating coastal flooding that covered the downtown area known as Dock Square. <br /><br />
Two people were injured, one seriously, in an early-morning fire near the top of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, the New York Fire Department said on Monday.
