Judge OKs Gitto/Global payment; Law firm's insurer can pay $2.1M settlement.
Byline: Martin Luttrell WORCESTER - A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge yesterday allowed the insurer for the law firm of Bowditch & Dewey LLP to make a $2.1 million settlement payment to the bankruptcy estate of former Lunenburg plastics company Gitto/Global Corp. Mark G. DeGiacomo, bankruptcy...

Lawsuit against police to trial; Correction officer claims his rights were violated.
Byline: Matthew Bruun FITCHBURG - Jury selection is set to start today in Boston in the case of a Department of Correction employee who said Fitchburg police violated his civil rights, assaulted him and falsely imprisoned him in 2004. The lawyer representing the police denied...

Officer found `not guilty' in Clinton drunk driving case.
Byline: John Weeks FITCHBURG - The Northboro police officer charged with drunk driving following an accident in Clinton last year was found not guilty by a judge in Fitchburg District Court on Friday. James Scesny, 38, was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the...

Team effort nets arson suspect.
Byline: Susan Nest NORTHBORO - Nicholas Couture, 18, of Shrewsbury, was arrested Sunday night for his alleged role in the March 25 five-alarm fire at the Northboro Shopping Center. "I'm very happy to see the investigation come to a close and have it end successfully,"...

Airport Business News - Europe.
Feb 11, 2008 Alitalia, Milan Malpensa airport The airport operator SEA will seek $1.86 billion in damages from Alitalia over its plans to cut flights at Malpensa, which is about 40 kilometers, or 25 miles, northwest of Milan, Italy's financial and fashion capital. SEA Chairman...

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Game birds killed, not harvested The March 4 Outdoors section reported that during the 2007-08 hunting season, 4,671 hunters at Fern Ridge Wildlife Area "harvested" 2,598 ducks, 39 geese, 782 pheasant, 103 coot, 62 doves, 27 snipe, 15 merganser and four quail....

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you a size 2?
Instead of getting through security by submitting to pat downs at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, travelers can now choose a more hands-off approach: walking through a full-body screening machine that can peer right through a person's outfit. The device was originally created by engineer Doug...

The road to growth in 2008: insuring risks faced by middle-market companies and the formation of group captive structures are expected to provide the engine of growth in the alternative risk marketplace in 2008.
Summary * Groups will continue to consider using group captive structures, even in the softening market. * The market should also look for reinsurers to be more aggressive in seeking reinsurance opportunities behind admitted programs. * More self-insured workers' compensation groups, facing stiffer...

High water risin'.
Major floods have grown exponentially from just seven in the 1950s to thirty-four in the 1990s. But it's not just floodwaters that are on the rise--the UN projects the number of people threatened by flooding will double to over two billion by 2050. Global warming is partly to blame....

Murray blasts CSX tie-up; Lt. gov. calls railroad `indifferent' to public needs.
Byline: Priyanka Dayal WORCESTER - Lt. Gov. Timothy P. Murray said yesterday that railroad company CSX Corp. is blocking the expansion of commuter rail service to the city, and he reproached CSX for neglecting the public interest. At a railroad summit at the DCU Center,...