A settlement agreement has been reached between Hickory’s public housing agency and the five tenants that accused a former administrator of “trading rent money for sexual favors.” According to court records, the settlement comes almost two years after reports of detailed allegations of “sexual harassment and misspending at the Hickory Public Housing Authority” began pouring in.
New York City settled a lawsuit brought against its infamous Rikers Island facility on Monday, just over a month after Mayor Bill de Blaisio vowed to close the notorious jail. The settlement awarded an undisclosed amount of money to two women who claim they were repeatedly raped by a guard. The duo, both of whom
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued their final report on the deadly outbreak “traced to soft, raw milk cheese from Vulto Creamery of Walton, NY,” officially ending the outbreak. In total, eight people were confirmed with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes, and all of them required hospitalization.
The last week has been a tumultuous one for environmental activists, who marched en masse on Washington, D.C. Protesters demanded the Trump administration take action against global warming, claiming the president was waging war against science. The gatherings, staged in the nation’s capital as well as across the world, took place as the Environmental Protection
A Delaware school district changed its search and seizure policy in response to a parent’s lawsuit. In 2015, Brandywine High School junior Joe Wahl suffered from an unfortunate case of mistaken identity. Mixed up with another student, the boy was told to hand over his backpack for inspection. When administrators dug through the bag, apparently
The Trump administration imposed a 20% tariff on Canadian lumber, citing unfair government subsidies. Very well, but what about our subsidized exports? Just two days after the tariff decision, Trump signed an executive order amending the Antiquities Act, allowing a review of all national monuments declared since 1996. One thing this would potentially do is open up more national forest land for logging. How is this different from the “unfair government subsidy” of the Canadian lumber industry?
$33.8 Million Judgment Reached In Malpractice Lawsuit
Judge Jorge Alonso submitted a ruling on Friday, April 28th, in a lawsuit alleging inadequate medical and dental care for prisoners that was filed against Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC).
After nearly two months of bantering back and forth, fiery conservative Tomi Lahren has finally settled her “wrongful termination lawsuit against her former employer Glenn Beck and his online network The Blaze.” The settlement was announced on Monday, and puts to rest Lahren’s allegations that “she was fired from The Blaze for expressing pro-abortion rights opinions during a March episode of the daytime television show The View.”
Low-Dose Aspirin Over The Counter Cancer Deterrent