Earlier this week, the governor of Kansas and other top legislative leaders agreed to settle a child-death lawsuit for $75,000. The suit was originally filed in Sedgwick County District Court against the “Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) after the agency failed to intervene based on allegations an 18-month-old girl was physically abused and living in a drug house.”
A recall was issued late Saturday for nearly 100,000 pounds of bulk raw ground beef from a JBS USA Swift Beef facility in Utah over concerns of potential E. coli contamination. According to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the recalled product was distributed to retailers throughout “at least five states,” including Utah, Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection briefly closed California’s San Ysidro border crossing Monday. San Ysidro, writes USA Today, is the busiest land port along the U.S.-Mexico border. Customs and Border Protection temporarily halted northbound traffic for more than three hours, apparently in fear that members of a migrant caravan might try to force their way
On Friday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced a heavily anticipated overhaul of the procedures colleges use to deal with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct on campus. But one feature of the new rules struck critics as unusual. According to The Atlantic, Betsy DeVos’s new protocol would allow students accused of sexual assault to personally
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A family of an 18-year-old woman who died earlier this year on May 17 recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Superior Asphalt Inc., IMS Engineers, the city of Jackson, and others. According to the suit, the woman who lost her life was Frances Fortner. The day of the fatal incident, Fortner, who was a senior at Jackson Academy, was driving to graduation practice when her “car hit an unsecured manhole cover and flipped,” according to witnesses.
Costco Wholesale Corp. is at the center of a lawsuit filed by an African American Severn couple for $4 million. According to the suit, a manager allegedly “racially discriminated against them when he called the police for a robbery that did not happen.”
A graduate of Yale University recently filed a lawsuit against the university, several school officials, and Yale New Haven Hospital after she was allegedly involuntarily held at the hospital when she “admitted herself for depression.” Additionally, the lawsuit claims that Yale “forced her to withdraw from the university.”