CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 7 -- The American Property Casualty Insurance Association issued the following news release: On February 7, 1812, the largest earthquake of the 1811-1812 New Madrid sequence impacted parts of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Illinois at a whopping magnitude 7.7, causing widespread damage and destruction. If a similar event were to occur, the risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has estimated that it could produce insured losses in excess of $59 billion (2017 doll  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 7 -- The Presbyterian Church USA issued the following news: During its national gathering last week, the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators honored four distinguished educators during a banquet held in their honor. ENRICH (Educator of the Year) -- Michael Waschevski Waschevski was called as an associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1999 after having served churches in Michigan and Texas. He serves the Fort Worth church as a  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Feb. 4 -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials issued the following statement: Nathaniel Smith, MD, MPH, secretary of health at the Arkansas Department of Health and president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) issued the following statement following new data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that show U.S. life expectancy rose in 2018 for the first time in four years, thanks to a drop in cancer-rel  more