&#36;13M settlement expected in RI club fire
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Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement, a lawyer for one family in the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Losses from the wildfires ripping across Southern California have reached $1 billion, and economists said Wednesday the tally could be pushed even higher when the final costs of rebuilding and lost tourism are determined.
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TRIPOLI: Libya signed a deal yesterday to pay $35 million (BD13m) in compensation to mainly German victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing 18 years ago.
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This afternoon, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office announced that Verizon Wireless had reached a settlement with the state, which had earlier accused it of wrongfully terminating about 13,000 accounts of customers of its "Unlimited" nationwide Internet service, for excessive usage.
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The owners of a Rhode Island nightclub where 100 people died in a fire set off by a band's pyrotechnics are suing their insurer to force it to cover the costs of their criminal defense.
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he United States Department of Labor announced yesterday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for the Target Corporation after finding that the contractor had
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American International Group and federal regulators have completed a settlement that calls for the company to pay $126 million in penalties and restitution and to
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The city has started charging residents $500 for structure fires and up to $1,000 for false alarms to raise money for the financially troubled department.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - Owners of a Rhode   Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people three years ago   will plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges,   state documents showed on Wednesday.
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Damages from the wildfires in California's San Diego County were expected to exceed $1 billion, a top official said on Wednesday.
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By ERIC TUCKER  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jury selection began Tuesday for the highly anticipated trial of one of the owners of the nightclub where a fire killed 100 people three years ago.  Michael Derderian is the first person to stand trial for the Feb.
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By DANIEL BARBARISI  Journal Staff Writer  WARWICK - The city is again the state's recycling leader, and received a reward check for $103,562 from the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, by far the largest in the state.
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Specialty retailer Whitehall Jewellers Inc. has agreed to pay &#36;13 million to settle a lawsuit and a federal investigation into allegations that it had misrepresented its finances, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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By Gene Warner, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 2--A fire at a Grand Island home early Friday caused an estimated $400,000 damage and led to the arrest of the 44-year-old homeowner, who was accused of interfering with firefighters and police officers.
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An official says the fire inspector who failed to detect flammable soundproofing foam blamed for a deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire in 2003 has retired.
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Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks received more than $38 billion in compensation - a figure 30 times the size of the largest previous disaster payout and one that is unlikely to be matched, according to a Rand Corp.
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The death toll from a fire in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires rose to 133, police said on Friday.