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South Dakota Farmers Use Farm Tunnels for Longer Growing Season
When snow covers the frozen ground, and most South Dakota farmers have sold or stored their products for the season, the operators of Cedar Creek Gardens are still able to grow vegetables and harvest a lucrative crop. Located in a …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 4:32 PM |
Wisconsin Contractor Fined for Acting as a Public Adjuster
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Nathan Houdek issued a final decision to impose civil forfeitures of $6,000 after finding that a contractor was acting as a public adjuster under Wisconsin law, which subjected him to the standards of Wis. Stat. ch. 629, …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 4:20 PM |
Camp Owners in Texas Fear Closure Due to New Safety Regulations
Texas camp owners on Friday urged the state health agency to give them more time and flexibility on costly new safety requirements, saying they could be forced to close by next summer. “We support the goal of making camps safer,” …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 3:53 PM |
Texas Water Crisis Threatens Booming Industrial Hotspot for Exxon, Koch
Water shortages in South Texas are posing major risks to a fast-growing industrial hub that’s crucial to President Donald Trump’s twin goals of dominating global energy markets and slashing trade deficits. Corpus Christi, a Gulf Coast city 400 miles (640 …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 3:47 PM |
Look Out, Uber. The Future Looks a Lot More Like Waymo.
There’s something fundamentally American about the freedom to get in your car and drive. Driving is self-determination. The liberty to set your own course. The power to move under your own willpower, whether for duty or sheer pleasure. Despite some …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 3:45 PM |
King Risk Partners Acquires Virginia’s Jenkins Insurance
Florida-based insurance broker King Risk Partners announced it has acquired Jenkins Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Jenkins Insurance has been serving Harrisonburg, Rockingham, and the surrounding regions of Virginia for more than 40 years. The agency …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 2:08 PM |
Miami Construction Owner, an Illegal Immigrant, Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
A construction firm owner in Miami greatly underreported his company’s payroll, defrauding a workers’ compensation insurer of more than $380,000 in premiums, Florida authorities said Monday. Jose Arias-Reyes, president of AR Carpentry Services, is an illegal alien who has twice …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 1:48 PM |
Shooting at Packed SC Bar Kills 4 and Injures At Least 20 More
A mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on an idyllic island considered to be the largest Gullah community on the South Carolina coast has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials said. A large crowd …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 1:22 PM |
Rhode Island Couple Dies in Plane Crash on Massachusetts Highway
A Rhode Island husband and wife were killed and another person injured Monday morning when a small plane crashed onto a highway in southeastern Massachusetts. The deceased were identified as Thomas and Agatha Perkins, of Middletown, according to Thomas Quinn, …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 1:04 PM |
16 Killed in Blast at Tennessee Military Explosives Factory Near Nashville
A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and burned-out vehicles at …
POSTED OCTOBER 14, 2025 1:01 PM |
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