Daily Headlines: Thursday, July 14, 2011

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July 14, 2011
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National

Selig: Teams Reviewing Stadium Safety after Death

Major league teams are reviewing stadium safety following the death of a fan at a Texas Rangers game last week, while still encouraging ...

Hartford Warns after Disasters, Asbestos Losses

Hartford Financial Services Group Wednesday warned it will badly miss second-quarter expectations after severe losses on natural disasters ...

House Acts to Overhaul Flood Insurance Program

Congress is trying to restore new fiscal life to a four-decade-old federal flood insurance program that was nearly sunk by Katrina and ...
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East

Mass. Woman Sues Little League in Son’s Injury

The mother of a Peabody boy who suffered severe injuries when he was struck in the head by a baseball during a Little League practice in ...

Mass. Pool Inspectors’ Authority Eyed after Death

A union lawyer for two health inspectors who issued a permit for a murky Massachusetts public swimming pool where a woman's body lay ...

Lawyer: Deal Reached to Care for Paralyzed Gymnast Injured in New York

The New York lawyer for a champion Chinese gymnast says she has settled claims brought against the U.S. Gymnastics Federation and insurance ...
Midwest

Michigan Woman Sues after Facebook Romance Fails

A suburban Detroit woman is suing a Washington state man for more than $8,000 in damages after a failed Facebook romance. Fifty-year-old ...

Wis. Bowling Alley Owner Pleads Guilty to Arson

The owner of a Fond du Lac bowling alley has pleaded guilty to burning down his business. Lyle Huss pleaded guilty to one count of arson ...

Lawyer Targeted in Illinois Worker’s Compensation Case

Illinois' Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has filed a complaint against a lawyer who represented a state trooper injured ...

Court OKs Payment for Man Hurt in Appleton, Wis. Blast

A maintenance worker seriously injured in a 2009 boiler explosion at the Appleton Medical Center will be compensated for his medical ...
Southeast

Identifying Underutilized Defenses in Condominium Defect Lawsuits

While there has been a notable decline in the construction industry over recent years, no such drop has occurred in the volume of ...

Atlanta, Ga. Firefighters Extinguish Blaze at MLK Site

Atlanta firefighters have put out a fire in a building at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site. The blaze was reported around ...
South Central

Texas Priest Abuse Case Settles for $1.2 Million

A $1.2 million settlement has been reached between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi and three men who say they were sexually ...

Arkansas Town Gets $1 Million Grant for Safe Room

A town hard hit by a deadly tornado outbreak in late April is getting more than $1 million to build a safe room at the high school. The ...
West

Feds: Coast Guard Boat Speed Caused Fatal Calif. Crash

A Coast Guard vessel's dangerous speed likely caused a collision that killed an 8-year-old boy and seriously injured four other people ...

Golfball-Sized Hail Strafes Cheyenne, Wyoming

A severe thunderstorm spawned funnel clouds and strafed southeast Wyoming with golfball-sized hail. In Cheyenne, the hail shredded trees, ...

Feds Fault Pilot in 2009 Montana Crash that Killed 14

The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed and killed 14 people in Butte in 2009 cut safety corners and then did not take the ...
International

New Zealand Hears Testimony on Mining Blast that Killed 29

Financial pressures may have led a New Zealand coal mining operation to overextend itself before an explosion killed 29 workers last year, ...

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