City's Lead Paint Case in Jury's Hands; $52.6 Million Reimbursement Sought From Manufacturer for Cleanup at 11,000 Homes
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By MARIE ROHDE  A jury began deliberations Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the City of Milwaukee that seeks $52.6 million in reimbursement for the remediation of lead paint, which has been linked to health problems and mental retardation in young children.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 15--BELFAST -- A local discount retailer has agreed to pay $8,250 to the state's hazardous waste fund after admitting that it improperly disposed of hundreds of fluorescent light bulbs.
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By Melissa Vargas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 9--HALTOM CITY -- When a resident near Spring Lake arrived home to  find a brick on her kitchen floor, a shattered window and $5,000 worth of her  belongings gone, she got mad.
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The toy manufacturing giant's investigations reveal more products contaminated by lead paint.
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By Associated Press  JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a mother and son who lost a lawsuit that claimed Sherwin Williams Co. was responsible for the lead paint that made the boy sick.
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By Robert Boczkiewicz, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 8--DENVER -- The judge overseeing Fountain Creek pollution lawsuits against Colorado Springs has scheduled his first courtroom proceeding in the case next week.   U.S. District Judge Walker Miller has set 11 a.m. Feb.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - As Florida residents began sweeping up the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Charley, officials on Sunday estimated damages as high as $11 billion for insured homes alone...
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A two-day hearing is held in Washington to examine the extent of lead contamination in children's toys.
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The testimony came as Mattel said it had found lead levels in paint in recalled toys that were almost 200 times the accepted safety ceiling.
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The nation&#39;s largest defense contractor will take a $110 million charge against its fourth quarter earnings after losing a court bid to salvage at least some of the money it pumped
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ChevronTexaco, ordered to pay more than $41 million to more than 75 Sunburst residents who filed a pollution-liability suit, will file a motion for a new trial in the next month, a company spokesman said.
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.
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By TERRY DICKSON  BRUNSWICK -- Glynn County will receive $25 million from the settlement of a lawsuit against the owners of the former LCP Chemicals-Georgia Superfund site in Brunswick.  The county had sued Allied Signal Inc., Honeywell International and Allied Chemical Corp.
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By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 9--Anthon and Ann Cannon got a check for more than $147,300 from  their insurance company after their laptop computer's battery purportedly  ignited a blaze that gutted their east Salt Lake City home.
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A seven-member jury was chosen Monday in the first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina.
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Grand jury looks at 1999 contract; unclear if Plainfield-based firm is target of the inquiry. By JK Wall. The US attorney&#39;s office in Indianapolis is conducting a grand jury investigation into a 1999 contract between Plainfield-based Brightpoint Inc.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.