In a single year, a coal-fired electric plant deposited more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials in a holding pond that failed last week, flooding 300 acres in East Tennessee, according to a 2007 inventory filed with the Environmental Protection Agency.

A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Tremont Group Holdings Inc., a hedge- fund firm owned by OppenheimerFunds Inc., had $3.3 billion, or more than half its total assets, invested with Bernard Madoff, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The widow of a construction foreman who died in October after he and nine other workers fell from the bridge they were building filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana and two companies involved in the project.
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The family of a construction worker who died after a girder on the new twin spans fell into Lake Pontchartrain filed a lawsuit Friday against the company that manufactured the concrete beam, alleging it was flawed.

A lawsuit filed Friday alleges serious flaws in the construction of a girder that fell from the new twin spans being built across Lake Pontchartrain, killing one worker and plunging nine others into the water.

Families of four Lee High School students who were killed when their bus plunged off an interstate overpass two years ago have settled lawsuits in the case that led to national debate over school bus safety, lawyers said Wednesday.

Lawsuits filed by the families of four Lee High School students killed in a 2006 school bus crash were settled by the bus company, Laidlaw Transit Inc., early Wednesday, said three attorneys who helped mediate the cases.

Several lawsuits have been settled over a Huntsville school bus crash that killed four high school students and left dozens injured two years ago.

Tom Methvin is a Montgomery Attorney who is chairing the Mortgage Foreclosure Task Force, a program put together by the Alabama State Bar.