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Oct. 29– The heat may be gone but the risk of deadly wildfires hitting the San Diego area is not. The region has thus far been spared the devastation and evacuations seen in Sonoma County and the Los Angeles metropolitan areas but low humidity and high winds have led the National Weather Service to issue a Red Flag Warning for San Diego County mountains and valleys…

One of two Superfund sites in Chattanooga has been delisted from the EPA’ s National Priorities List, signaling Chattanooga Creek at the Tennessee Products site has been cleaned to the agency’s federal standards. The news came in a statement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcing 27 sites nationwide were removed, at least partially, from the…

Oct. 29– This story was updated at 7:24 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, with more information. The Chattanooga- based insurance giant said Tuesday its after-tax adjusted operating income in the three months ended Sept. 30 totaled $282.7 million, or $1.36 per diluted share. In the same period a year ago, Unum after-tax operating income totaled $300.6 million, or $1.37…

A previous version incorrectly said Comprehensive Care was the first in Chattanooga to offer the 1- hour service. Chattanooga gas prices fell by 3.5 cents a gallon last week to an average $2.21 a gallon, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 170 stations. Chattanooga boasted the lowest gas prices in Tennessee and the average price for a gallon of regular gas…

Oct. 29– A couple were sentenced to jail time Tuesday after they pleaded no contest to insurance fraud for filing a false stolen vehicle report and then lying to their insurance company when their son caused a head-on collision, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said. Jose Leyva was sentenced to 90 days in jail, and his wife, Leticia, was sentenced to…

Oct. 29– A Lutherville- Timonium resident was convicted by a federal jury Monday for conspiring to defraud insurers of more than $15 million by setting fire to his Baltimore- based business in 2015, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, trial evidence showed that on July 28, 2015, Stavrakis used tape to obscure one…

Oct. 29– Scott Trapp spent a lot of time as a pharmaceutical salesman pushing drug compounds such as pain patches and pain creams. In one case, the Clarence man pushed a pain cream that cost health insurers $22,000 a month. Trapp, 50, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $10 million in restitution to four health care programs.

Oct. 29– PLATTSBURGH– Following a modification to the Plattsburgh City Retirees Association’s original settlement agreement, Clinton County has returned an approximately $4,140 fee to the group that the Treasurer’s Office had lawfully withheld. “Basically, the judge modified the agreement stating that all moneys were to be returned and that’s the only way I…

–Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has launched education and outreach efforts aimed at removing barriers to health insurance enrollment in advance of the November 1 st opening of the Individual Insurance Marketplace. “In our state, nearly 900 thousand people are uninsured, yet more than 63 percent of them qualify for financial assistance,” said Steve…

ALLIANCE Inspectors have not discovered what caused the explosion and resulting fire Monday afternoon in the warehouse at the NAPA Auto& Trucks Parts outlet at 317 E. State St.. “We know about where it started,” Inspector Guy Aumend of the city Fire Department said Tuesday. Damage is estimated at $200,000 to the single-story brick structure and $850,000 to…

Roy Browning Jr. was arrested for first-degree murder on Monday night in connection with the fatal stabbing of 65- year-old JoEllen Browning earlier this year in the quiet college town of Iowa City. Investigators found that JoEllen Browning had been asking her husband about discrepancies in their bank accounts in the days leading up to the April slaying.

Oct. 29– One of two Superfund sites in Chattanooga has been delisted from the EPA’ s National Priorities List, signaling Chattanooga Creek at the Tennessee Products site has been cleaned to the agency’s federal standards. The news came in a statement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcing 27 sites nationwide were removed, at least partially,…

Oct. 29– MEMPHIS– Tennessee Gov. “I want to review those comments and look at them and read them,” the Republican governor told reporters after speaking to attendees at the American Conservative Union Foundation conference here. At the direction of fellow Republicans in the state legislature, Lee is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for…