May 25– FARMINGTON– The Farmington Police Department's traffic unit will be offering an advanced motorcycle safety course in both June and August to provide training for experienced riders. The two-day class will focus on proper braking, curve negotiation and collision avoidance– skills critical to motorcycle safety, according to a Farmington Police…
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May 25– WIMBERLEY– Five minutes after water from the Blanco River started flooding Norman and Marty Abbott's cabin around 1 a.m. Sunday, it was four feet deep. Hays County officials said three Wimberley residents are missing, but that tally may not include eight visitors who were unaccounted for as of Sunday afternoon. In Wimberley, a small Hill Country town known…
“More boats in the water means a higher likelihood of a boating crash this holiday weekend,” said Gene Calkins, vice president of insurance agency with AAA. There are an estimated 11.8 million recreational vessels registered in the United States. However, only two-thirds or 67 percent of owners in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee have boat insurance, according to a…
May 24– For Sheri Davis, bailing people out of New Hampshire jails is a way of life… and a full day's work. Calls come in at all hours of the day nearly every day. “There isn't a day I don't get a phone call,” said Davis, owner of Bailn' U Bail Bonds of Raymond.
May 24– There were no nurses among the 31 clinic employees at the HOPE Clinic in Beaver, which the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources ordered in April to shut down. Those violations of strict laws for West Virginia pain clinics are detailed in a report by the DHHR Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification that was obtained by The…
May 24– Growing incidence of Autism, Alzheimer's disease and other disabling conditions are fueling demand for financial planners who can navigate the tricky terrain of making sure families' loved ones are provided for when they can't provide for themselves. “This is a market that they really need to pay attention to,” said Adam Beck, interim director of the…
May 24– Growing incidence of Autism, Alzheimer's disease and other disabling conditions are fueling demand for financial planners who can navigate the tricky terrain of making sure families' loved ones are provided for when they can't provide for themselves. “This is a market that they really need to pay attention to,” said Adam Beck, interim director of the…
Mountain High Acquisitions Corp. recently reported that it appointed Teri D. Vries to the positions of CEO and President, and to the Board of Directors of the Company. According to a release, prior to joining Mountain High, Vries was a Product Consultant to Highmark Inc., one of the leading health insurers in Pennsylvania, where she was project manager for…
May 24– WEST LIBERTY– Cash-strapped Morgan County is being sued for nearly $1 million by Emergency Disaster Services, a Lexington company from which it rented trailers, generators, all-terrain vehicles and other equipment after a March 2012 tornado leveled this place and killed a half-dozen people. In its response, Morgan County accuses EDS– owned by Jerry…
May 24– news Dickinson, 58602. A young Dickinson couple is homeless after a late Friday night fire consumed the trailer home they were renting, as well as their two pets and most of their possessions. “Absolutely everything they had, they lost right here,” Dickinson Fire Chief Bob Sivak said at the scene around 1:15 a.m. Saturday.
May 23– Daisy Cleaves worked 38 years in Memphis City Schools, starting with awkward teens in junior high school. She's working from her home now, signing up retirees for the Memphis& Shelby County Retired Teachers Association. Shelby County Schools has $1.4 billion in retiree benefit liabilities.
May 23– CLINTON– A Knoxville woman who allegedly pocketed bond payments made on behalf of criminal defendants who were then freed from jail on fraudulent bonds faces arraignment next week, on Friday, in Anderson County Criminal Court. Defendant Lena Graves Nail, 41, also allegedly ripped off the Knoxville bonding company that employed her and the insurance…
—A different health care issue has emerged for Democrats, in sync with the party's pitch to workers and middle-class voters ahead of next year's elections. Jim McDermott, D- Wash., a congressional leader on health care. Since virtually all U.S. residents are now required to have health insurance by President Barack Obama's health care law, McDermott said Democrats…
—A different health care issue has emerged for Democrats, in sync with the party's pitch to workers and middle-class voters ahead of next year's elections. Jim McDermott, D- Wash., a congressional leader on health care. Since virtually all U.S. residents are now required to have health insurance by President Barack Obama's health care law, McDermott said Democrats…
Beth Evans still gets goosebumps when she thinks about how her father had come across the street from the pool hall to the community center just before a mammoth tornado slammed into the unsuspecting Cowley County town at 10:38 p.m. on May 25, 1955. They were among 77 people killed in the deadliest tornado in Kansas history, a total that amounted to about a…
On Wednesday, May 20, 2015, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield announced that, “the company has been the target of a sophisticated cyberattack,” and that it, “was discovered as a part of the company's ongoing Information Technology security efforts in the wake of recent cyberattacks on health insurers.” Joe Caruso, founder and CEO/CTO of Global Digital Forensics, a…
Benefit Corporation of America, LLC, a leader in the development of specialized employee benefits software, has released several major enhancements to BenefitScape ®, a cloud-based outsourcing platform for ACA Compliance. The new features provide for stand alone e-filing of IRS reporting and e-delivery of required employee communications.
May 22– An Arkansas Congressman has set his sights on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion to shore up an insolvent federal Highway Trust Fund that has required nearly 30 short-term extensions since 2009.. Bruce Westerman, R- Hot Springs, filed his Prioritizing American Roads and Jobs Act of 2015 on Thursday as a long-term solution to help fund a nearly…
May 22– EVANSVILLE– A Tennyson man who lost his business and house after an insurance company denied his claim for a spine injury has won a $1.5 million verdict in a two-day civil trial in Vanderburgh Superior Court. Donnie Grubb filed the lawsuit against Indiana Farm Bureau insurance and agent Kirk Martin, of Evansville, in May 2012. It took the jury about 35…
