According to a lawsuit recently filed in San Diego, “illegal and dangerous erection-inducing products containing Viagra and Cialis are being deceptively sold across” in convenience stores, liquor, and smoke shops throughout the city. Many of the products are labeled with “sexually suggestive names, including Black Stallion 35000, Rhino 69, and New Stiff Nights Platinum 10K” and are marketed as dietary or natural supplements.
Sioux Falls is at the center of a new lawsuit filed in federal court over the drowning death of a 5-year-old girl last spring. According to the wrongful death suit, the city of Sioux Falls allegedly “failed to provide adequate safety precautions at Falls Park, where Maggie Zaiger drowned after falling from the river bank rocks into the water on March 18.” It argues that the city “had previously ignored recommendations to establish barriers to better distinguish where the quartzite rock in the park ends and the water begins.”
Have you ever been singled out our retaliated against for a shirt you’ve worn? One teenage boy in Oregon was, and as a result, he was recently awarded $25,000. The boy, Addison Barnes, 18, was a student at Liberty High School in the Hillsboro School District in Oregon when he decided to wear a t-shirt supportive of President Trump to class. The shirt in question said, “’Donald J. Trump Border Wall Construction Co.’ with the slogan, ‘The wall just got 10 feet taller,’ a reference to a speech Trump made about building more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
A heat wave covering central Texas is reigniting concerns over the welfare of prisoners incarcerated without climate control. The Texas Tribune reports that some seventy-five percent of prisons within the state don’t have air conditioning in housing areas. While hard time isn’t meant to be easy, extreme weather can endanger the well-being of thousands. Thermometers
A Mississippi man who was bitten by a brown recluse spider is suing American Airlines, saying flight attendants downplayed the risk posed by the arachnid. Marcus Fleming was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 3978 on September 6, 2016. Just before take-off, another, eight-legged passenger scurried from the man’s seat. Fleming didn’t see the creature
Kushner Cos. Austin Nichols House Renovation is Scrutinized by Residents
OSU Athletes Claim Now Deceased Student Doctor Sexually Abused Them
Kathy Griffin is in the news again, but not for her so-called comedic acts. This time she’s making headlines over a dispute with her neighbors, “KB Home CEO Jeffrey T. Mezger and his wife Sandra.” According to a lawsuit filed by the Mezger’s, Griffin and her boyfriend, Randy Bick, allegedly “made repeated and demonstrably unfounded complaints against the Mezgers, and spied on them.”
On Monday, Chicago approved another $4.5 million in settlements related to police wrongdoing. Over the course of the past fifteen years, the city’s paid close to a billion to settle allegations against its law enforcement agencies and officers. The latest round of approvals was announced Monday by the City Council’s Finance Committee. The Chicago Sun
Serendipity 3 Reaches Settlement with Former Workers Alleging Unfair Practices