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State Farm wraps up defense in whistle-blower case - SunHerald.com
State Farm wraps up defense in whistle-blower case
SunHerald.com
The case centers on the home of Thomas and Pamela McIntosh on the Tchoutacabouffa River in North Biloxi. State Farm paid $250,000 policy limits on the flood claim and an initial payment of $36,000 for wind damage. Ozerden found no evidence Haag ...
Escaped Murder Suspect From Hopkins County Captured - KBTX
Escaped Murder Suspect From Hopkins County Captured
KBTX
Investigative leads led law enforcement to a property in Cooper, Texas, where investigators believed the pair was being harbored by the homeowner and stepson. The fugitives were found in the loft of a barn behind the house. Tucker, who was awaiting ...
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Beware of the loot and scoot fraud - Worcester Telegram
Beware of the loot and scoot fraud
Worcester Telegram
Overall, the U.S. inspector general found in a 2011 report that industrywide, some 80 percent of Medicare payments for power chairs were made in error, with patients not needing the chairs, or that the necessary paperwork was not done. ... Few would ...
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The Appleworks: A Harvard history - Harvard Press
Harvard Press
The Appleworks: A Harvard history
Harvard Press
Bud's wife, "Tex" (who came from Texas), loved to play tennis, so in 1921 they built what was then "probably the best clay tennis court in New England," Larry says, the ghost of which still stands just across Ayer Road from the old farmstead. According ...
GTT - New York Times
New York Times
GTT
New York Times
Behind the bookshelf in the library of Audrey Geisel's California home is a secret room where the walls are lined with the hats that her husband, Theodor Geisel, a k a Dr. Seuss, collected throughout his globe-trotting life. There are Japanese, Italian ...
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Pair with gang ties sought in prison chief's death - Alton Telegraph
Pair with gang ties sought in prison chief's death
Alton Telegraph
Now investigators are trying to piece together whether he killed the chief of Colorado prisons, Tom Clements, and a pizza delivery man, where he was headed when Texas police stopped him. Behind Johnson is Inspector John San Agustin, left, of the El ...
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Scooter ads face scrutiny from government, doctors - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Scooter ads face scrutiny from government, doctors
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Government inspectors say up to 80 percent of the scooters and power wheelchairs Medicare buys go to people who don't meet the requirements. And doctors say more than ... "What they're implying is that you can use these scooters to leave the house, to ...
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What makes an entire family all of a sudden need asthma medications? - Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
What makes an entire family all of a sudden need asthma medications?
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
The Cerny family lives a mile from what sounds from the article like an upstream oil storage and processing faclity. There are many other oil and gas facilities near their home in addition to this one. According to the article, a Texas state inspector ...
An English action flick and bio of Hemingway out on Blu-ray and DVD - SILive.com
An English action flick and bio of Hemingway out on Blu-ray and DVD
SILive.com
"Hemingway and Gellhorn," HBO Home Video, 155 minutes, Not rated — Biopic focuses on the romance between writer Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman). The film opens with them taking part in the Spanish ...
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With 61 years of combined military service, Steplers choose Huntsville for ... - al.com (blog)
With 61 years of combined military service, Steplers choose Huntsville for ...
al.com (blog)
She ended going to Texas and then to Athens, Greece, a place that she describes as a "different world for this country girl," where she was a trauma nurse for the Air Force. Stepler judy being sworn in.jpg Judy (Saboe) Stepler ... Ron retired as a ...
Gas detected under 2 Bayou Corne homes - NOLA.com
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Gas detected under 2 Bayou Corne homes
NOLA.com
Inspectors will first examine the property before a third party appraiser will assess the homes based on market conditions prior to the sinkhole's manifestation. A settlement offer will be made within 30 to 45 days, the Texas Brine official Bayou Corne ...
Gas found under slabs of 2 homes near sinkholeWAFB.com
Assumption Parish Sinkhole LatestKLFY
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To Clean Up Foreclosure Mess, Banks Rely On Little-Known Industry Plagued ... - Huffington Post
To Clean Up Foreclosure Mess, Banks Rely On Little-Known Industry Plagued ...
Huffington Post
An audit last September by HUD's Office of Inspector General found that 60 percent of sampled homes were not properly maintained. The auditor who checked up on one home, near Santa Ana, Calif., commented in field notes ... In Whippany, N.J., Lynn ...
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Sequester looms over storied energy labs - Politico
Politico
Sequester looms over storied energy labs
Politico
Joe Barton (R-Texas), a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose home state doesn't contain any of the labs. “The basic structure has been as it is for 50 years or more,” he said. DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman, one of ...
Bayou Corne buyout inspections under way - The Advocate
Bayou Corne buyout inspections under way
The Advocate
Brown said he is going through the appraisal process to see where he stands but doesn't know how Texas Brine can pay him to buy another home on the water. ... Mid-Tuesday morning, Worley inspector Patrick Levy checked Landry's cabins and launch.
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Border Drones Fall Short of Target - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
Border Drones Fall Short of Target
Wall Street Journal
Michael McCaul (R., Texas), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Border drones will be ... Meanwhile, he says, better security elsewhere along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border has put a greater burden on his home state. "There are ...
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7 enter guilty pleas in operation prison cell racketeering case - Your Houston News
7 enter guilty pleas in operation prison cell racketeering case
Your Houston News
Seven former Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) correction officers have pleaded guilty in the large-scale racketeering case involving the McConnell Unit in Beeville, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The hearing lasted ...
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Middleburg family says black mold, rats plauge their mobile home - First Coast News
First Coast News
Middleburg family says black mold, rats plauge their mobile home
First Coast News
The McGills said they have heard from the owner, Stagecoach Enterprises, of San Angelo, Texas, about the issues. "He said he'll ... "The biggest thing is, the next step, is to get a house inspector out here," McGill said, as he sat in their living room ...
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Lives rebuilt year after North Texas tornadoes - Houston Chronicle
Lives rebuilt year after North Texas tornadoes
Houston Chronicle
My home was basically destroyed," Waites said. "Across the street, it was only the windows." It has taken them a full year to clean up the mess of a single moment. The couple bounced between their insurer, their mortgage company and city inspectors ...
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Feds arrest Aryan Brotherhood 'general' - KSAT San Antonio
Feds arrest Aryan Brotherhood 'general'
KSAT San Antonio
Bruce Toney, Inspector General for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said the dynamic of the Brotherhood is changing. Toney said members of the Brotherhood traditionally derived their power only while in prison. "Today, they operate just as ...
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As Big Drillers Move In, Safety Goes Up - Rigzone
Rigzone
As Big Drillers Move In, Safety Goes Up
Rigzone
The state offers a glimpse of the direction the U.S. drilling boom may be headed in Texas, North Dakota and elsewhere, as Big Oil increasingly takes over from the smaller, risk-embracing but often cash-strapped companies that pioneered tapping oil and ...
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