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Haiti and Cuba were spared the full force of Hurricane Tomas over the weekend as the storm skirted the islands through the Windward Strait without making landfall.

Hurricane Tomas, a Category 1 storm, is expected on Friday to strike Haiti, a country still recovering from an earthquake early this year.

Caribbean islands hit by the storm Tomas--which reached hurricane status over the weekend before weakening to a tropical storm--are expected to sustain less than $100 million in economic damages, catastrophe modeler EQECAT said.

The 19th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Haiti.

The promise of a big payoff -- along with bad television, apparently -- compelled two cousins to stage an armed robbery during which one shot the other with a gun.

After copping to one count of insurance claim fraud, a Prince George's County, MD police officer realizes that his charmed existence is over.

Medical marijuana dispensers and growers can now buy insurance against claims of selling illness inducing product and other risks, a marijuana retailing school and an insurer have announced.

Insurance brokerage Willis Group Holdings, plc., said it raised more than $400,000 for Haitian earthquake relief efforts using a special internal company Web site to gather donations.