1 dead 16 injured as severe storms pelt Ga. Ala.
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- 1 dead 16 injured as severe storms pelt Ga. Ala.
- Appeals Court Sides With Allstate State Farm
- Royal christening for UK’s newest steam engine
- Hundreds of hopefuls press search for work in Galveston
1 dead 16 injured as severe storms pelt Ga. Ala.
The Associated Press -
“In the Hancock County town of Sparta Johnny Frank Baker was killed when his home was destroyed by the storm county coroner Alexander Ingram said. Most of the 143-year-old Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church which is across the street from Baker’s home was leveled and nearby graves were uprooted by toppled trees. Kent McMullen a meteorologist with the weather service in Peachtree City said one confirmed tornado cut a 7-mile swath through rural Jasper County with winds of up to 100 mph. At least 10 people were injured and as many as 100 structures were damaged in Jasper County emergency managers said. Two other twisters touched down in Taylor County and at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins south of Macon McMullen said. In Alabama an apparent tornado uprooted trees in Geneva near the Florida line. No injuries were reported.
Appeals Court Sides With Allstate State Farm
Wall Street Journal -
–>Appeals Court Sides With Allstate State Farm ArticleCommentsmore in. But the ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals revives the case that lawyers for a group of purported “whistleblowers” filed against several other insurance companies and adjusting firms after the August 2005 storm. The appeals court ruled that Allstate Insurance Co. and State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. were correctly dismissed from the Louisiana suit because they already were defendants in a similar suit in Mississippi.
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Royal christening for UK’s newest steam engine
The Associated Press -
Steam and coal smoke swirled around the royals at the railway station in York 190 miles (300 kilometers) north of London where Charles formally named the engine Tornado in honor of the crews of Britain’s Tornado fighter jets in the first Gulf War. Britain — home of the world’s first working railway steam locomotive — has long been a train-loving nation and that was evident among the swarm of admirers at Thursday’s ceremony. The volunteers had raised more than 3 million pounds ($4. 3 million) and spent 19 years building Tornado. They regard it as the 50th engine of the Peppercorn A1 class a modernized version of the 49 predecessors which were all scrapped by 1966 two years before Britain’s national rail system stopped steam operations. “I have nothing but the greatest admiration for the team of people who over the last 19 years have been doing their utmost to produce this remarkable achievement” said Charles. He called it “a tribute to all of those incredible British engineering skills which made this country so famous.
Hundreds of hopefuls press search for work in Galveston
Houston Chronicle United States -
Radford an industrial engineer has been looking for a job since Sept. 22 when he lost his management position with a company that makes specialized vehicles for oil and gas exploration. Blame it partly on lower energy prices and partly on Hurricane Ike. He’s already sent more than 1000 résumés up and down the Gulf Coast and East Coast focusing on the subsea oil and gas industry. But many of those companies also have cut back as lower prices for oil and natural gas have stung them. “Now I’m branching out” Radford said as he ticked off all the booths he visited: Fort Bend County the City of Houston BP TEI Staffing Lowe’s and Southwest Shipyard. The job fair at the Galveston Island Convention Center started in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita and has now become an annual ritual.