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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department continues to look at ways to keep the city safe. One idea is to label certain neighborhoods as public safety zones — meaning people who are repeatedly arrested and convicted of crimes within that zone would be banned from that zone for a period of time.
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Bloomberg via Claims Journal
Climate change has added billions to the toll of hurricane strikes on the U.S., according to a study that challenges the prevailing scientific view that the rising cost is mainly because more buildings, towns and businesses are in the way.
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USA Today
Toyota authorized a recall to fix a defective power window switch in 6.5 million vehicles worldwide in a sweeping move that underscores the downside of sharing parts across the globe.
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By Bob Kowalski
 We've heard plenty about drones recently, but even with all that information, we still can't figure out the answer to this question: Whose side are they on? There's little doubt drones are capable of providing beneficial services and performing tasks that cannot be accomplished by people or other devices. They also hold the potential to bring headaches to law enforcement agencies around the world — a situation that has already begun.
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The Associated Press via The Republic
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has eased the concerns of numerous workers by announcing that state employees will be paid for the time their offices were closed during flooding two weeks ago.
Haley said that she intends to sign an executive order granting paid leave to affected employees.
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Property Casualty 360
We've all read or heard about the many data breaches and cyber "incidents" in the news, including Sony, the U.S. government's Office of Personnel Management, and several airlines. To put those data breaches in perspective, Tim Francis, Enterprise Cyber Lead, Travelers, speaking at a recent cyber media event, "Hacked: The Realities of a Cyber Event," provided an overview of the threat landscape. He explained that according to the "Symantec Internet Security Report," there are 34,529 known computer security penetration incidents per day. Not all the incidents result in the theft of personally identifiable information but the huge numbers are troublesome.
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Emergency Management
Middletown police are asking homeowners and businesses for some extra help with criminal investigations by registering their privately owned surveillance or security cameras with the department.
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By Jason Poquette
 In a culture that is facing unprecedented numbers of opioid overdoses and death, new ideas to stem the epidemic are sorely needed. Well, Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts has decided to propose something new — legislation that would limit practitioners to prescribing a 72-hour supply of opioids the first time they prescribe an opioid to patients. Unfortunately, policy ideas are only as good as the information politicians receive. And in this case the information is terribly skewed.
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The State
South Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials said they are handing out safety supplies to those recovering from the historic floods.
Officials said OSHA employees will be traveling around the state to observe damages from the flood and recovery efforts. If any of the workers see people working without necessary safety supplies, officials said they will stop to hand out free safety supplies.
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Reuters via Fox News
Staff reviewers of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have raised questions about the safety of AstraZeneca Plc's gout treatment.
Reviewers pointed to higher death rates, cardiovascular issues and kidney-related side effects in patients who took the drug, lesinurad, a preliminary review showed.
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Governing
Recently, in a case that sent shivers through corporate America, a former peanut-company executive was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak. The executive, Stewart Parnell, knowingly shipped contaminated peanut butter to stores across the country. Nine people died and hundreds more were sickened. Parnell's punishment was unprecedented for a foodborne-illness case. But it signals an important shift in the prevailing legal winds.
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