With the next Texas flood season just months away, Kerr County officials say they’re in a race to build a long-planned flood warning system estimated to cost up to $5 million — and they’re depending on the state to contribute a large share of the cost. Last week Kerr officials said the system will be […]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has sent warning letters to four major retailers for continuing to sell baby formula linked to a nationwide outbreak of bacterial illness in infants, even after the products were recalled, the health regulator’s website showed on Monday. Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons kept the recalled ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant
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Big four bank Westpac has added up to 35 basis points to its fixed home loan rates after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) shifted its tone on future rate cuts. The lowest standard (non-packaged) fixed rate in Westpac‘s line up is now 5.79% p.a. (7.96% p.a. comparison rate*) – up from 5.54% p.a. earlier
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Can an auto insurer in Massachusetts refuse to offer collision and comprehensive coverages during a flood warning despite a state law that makes it mandatory to offer such coverages? The industry and public are on the road to finding out. A Massachusetts trial court judge has allowed a purported class action against Progressive Direct Insurance
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Japan lifts tsunami warning after 7.5-magnitude earthquake
Japan lifts tsunami warning after 7.5-magnitude earthquake Read More »
Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising water. Several lashed out as a Kerr official representing the local river authority tried to explain
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