HENDERSONVILLE — The lakefront property in Tennessee where Johnny and June Carter Cash lived for more than 30 years has been sold for $3.2 million. The Hendersonville Standard first reported Thursday that the 4.5-acre property in Hendersonville, Tennessee was purchased on Jan. 7 by a local couple, Cristan and Tina Blackman, of...
World's Largest Volunteer Force Fights Australia's Wildfires
TOMERONG, Australia — The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames. If...
Wildfires Cause Turmoil in CA Property Insurance Market
NEW YORK — Kent Michitsch seemed to be running out of traditional options to insure the home he’s lived in for more than 30 years northeast of San Diego as California’s massive property insurance market reels from three consecutive years of destructive wildfires. Michitsch, 57, has received three non-renewal notices...
Landlord Who Refused to Rent to Muslim Men Settles Lawsuit
DENVER — A Denver landlord who was recorded telling her tenant to find an "American person ... good like you and me" to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant must pay the men $675,000 under a settlement. The three men...
Dictos Rights a Wrong & Wins Showdown With County Supervisors
Paul Dictos' moral streak is as straight as a ruler and as strong as steel. He doesn't bend. He doesn't capitulate. And, at age 74, he still calls on an inexhaustible reservoir of outrage to right the wrongs of government. All the more unusual: Dictos is the government. He is...