A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said. O'Berry said the tugboat ...

The lawyer representing the plaintiff in a residential property owner's Hurricane Ike-related suit against an insurer says he was worried when the jury returned a verdict in Jaw the Pointe v.

State Farm defendants vigorously fought the fee-shifting element of the plaintiffs' claim, their lawyer Hart Green said. "State Farm tried this as nothing but a battle over attorney fees," Green said.

HOUSTON — A Houston elementary school teacher remains stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa made a direct hit on the ...