Today events were held to remember the march for voting rights that took place in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 7th, 1965. On that day about 500 - 600 people planned to march from Selma to Montgomery for African-American voting rights and to remember the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who had been shot three weeks earlier by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration....
Los Angeles County Superior Court is being asked to consider a settlement of $200 million over the 2008 head on Metrolink and Connex train collision. The accident killed 25 people and injured more than 100. Under federal law, $200 million is the maximum level of financial liability. Investigators concluded that the commuter train’s engineer was likely sending text messages when he went through a red light and hit a Union Pacific freight train head on in San Fernando Valley....
Consumers and caregivers who are looking for quality nursing home care for their loved ones can now research and compare thousands of facilities nationwide, under a new website and five-star rating system released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The new website Nursing Home Compare, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), “provides information to help individuals, family members, caregivers, and those who assist them find and compare nursing homes, and make informed decisions about nursing home care,” according to CMS....
High-profile British investor Guy Hands lost a high-profile civil trial when a New York jury found that Citigroup didn’t fool him and his company into buying EMI Music. Guy Hands and his Terra Firma Capital Partners LP went down in defeat in the high-profile New York case against Citigroup Inc. Hand’s company alleged that they were misled when they bid for EMI Group PLC. Hands alleged that Citigroup and top U....
After five years of evading authorities in California, actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, are being held in jail in Vermont on $500,000 bail each. Neither has posted bail. The Quaids fled the U.S. after being charged with felony vandalism, among other charges. The property at issue was once their own – the couple was reportedly squatting in the guest house on land that previously belonged to them. They did not hang around to resolve the case....
Champion boxer Floyd Mayweather allegedly heard rapper Earl Hayes shooting his wife Stephanie Moseley and himself while on a FaceTime call on his phone. TMZ reports that Mayweather confirmed these details to Los Angeles police officers in an interview Wednesday, though the murder/suicide had occurred Monday morning. Mayweather told the LAPD that Hayes called him that morning “trying to say goodbye,” but it’s unclear whether Mayweather ever reached out to police....
Injured skiers and snowboarders got a win in the Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday; the state’s highest court ruled that a ski resort’s blanket liability waivers were not enforceable. The ruling focused on the case of Myles Bagley, a snowboarder who was paralyzed in 2006 after an accident at the Mount Bachelor terrain park near Bend, Oregon. The Associated Press reports that Bagley had his injury claim against the ski resort thrown out of a lower court, because his lift ticket and season pass contained a liability waiver....
The Supreme Court has found that the federal government may have to compensate property owners who suffer flood damage caused by the government. This dam decision may open the floodgates to litigation. In an 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court found that intentional flooding caused by the Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri may be considered government taking of the property. This would be no different than a government occupation or invasion of property, the court ruled....
A repair crew’s alleged violations of city code preceded Suzanne Hart’s horrific death in a New York City elevator shaft, a city investigation has found. Criminal charges are possible. Crews with Transel Elevator Inc. purposely disabled a safety device to access the elevator while making repairs Dec. 14, and allowed the elevator to move with its doors open, the city’s Buildings Department found in its investigation, according to The New York Times....
A Three 6 Mafia rapper with a Taser? Doesn’t sound like national criminal news does it? But it is, when Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul got arrested in New York City last night for allegedly carrying a Taser. The Academy Award-winning rapper was reportedly leaving a restaurant while carrying an open container of beer. The rapper walked by two cops who confronted him about the beer, and DJ Paul apparently told the cops that he was also carrying the Taser, reports TMZ....
Tom Cruise has filed a $50 million lawsuit against Life & Style and In Touch magazines for publishing stories that he abandoned his 6-year-old daughter Suri. Over the summer, following Cruise’s divorce from Katie Holmes, celebrity magazines ran a flurry of articles speculating about the divorce and the fallout. In one story, Life & Style reportedly ran a story with the headline “Suri in Tears: Abandoned by Her Dad,” reports Examiner....
Based on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, a Ninth Circuit panel had no choice but to unanimously overrule a lower court’s decision, forcing most Uber drivers to resolve their matter of Employee vs Independent Contractor in arbitration, and thereby decertifying the class action brought by the Uber drivers. Drivers are hired by Uber as independent contractors, not employees. They sign an agreement that has an arbitration clause in it....
Actress Evan Rachel Wood is being sued for $30 million by the makers of “10 Things I Hate About Life” for refusing to work – allegedly after she’d already been paid. The movie was slated to be a follow-up to the ’90s hit “10 Things I Hate About You,” and producers allege that Wood was paid $300,000 for a seven-week shoot beginning December 2012, according to Variety. The production halted halfway through the shoot, but when it resumed, producers allege that Wood demanded more money to continue working....
Another day, another 16 & Pregnant arrest to report. Season 2 daddy Joshua Drummonds, 19, was arrested in Michigan for stealing and forging checks from his own mother. Drummonds allegedly stole 5 checks from his mother, wrote the checks out to himself, forged her signature and then deposited them into his own bank account, reports the Examiner. The checks totaled to around $270, and the theft was reported to the police by his mother....
If possible nude photos of Tiger Woods exisit, they won’t be featured in any British tabloids. According to CNN, the golf legend’s lawyers in Britan have secured an injunction from the High Court in London prohibiting the publication of pictures of him taken or obtained in certain circumstances. Schillings law firm, which is representing Woods said the golfer is not aware of any images and in any event, he would not have consented to any such photos....
With summer vacation starting, many kids (and some frugal adults) will inevitably try their luck at sneaking into this summer’s blockbuster movies. But amid all the stealthy backdoor maneuvers and fake-butter-flavored fibs lies the real question of whether you can be charged with a crime for theater-hopping. Here are three common ways moviegoers sneak into their ill-gotten summer flicks, and the potential criminal ramifications: Gaining entry to the movie theater without paying and lying to the ticket-taker means that you are in effect stealing the theater’s services, which is technically larceny....
Car seats are an important piece of safety equipment for your infant. However, you should keep your eyes open as infant items are often subject to recalls. Take for example the recent Dorel car seat recall involving 800,000 car seats. The recall involves restraints labeled Safety 1st, Maxi-Cosi, Cosco and Eddie Bauer. The Dorel car seats may have been labeled under the brand names: Alpha Omega, Alpha Omega Elite, Enspira, Prospect, Vantage, OnBoard, Priori and Mico....
Those of you who are sick of Charlie Sheen should click on one of the posts below. And those of you who are deriving pleasure from Hollywood’s latest and greatest public meltdown? Well, you should just pick up a book. Just kidding. Put the book back and read on–Chuck Lorre has responded to the Charlie Sheen lawsuit, and bless his heart, he’s just concerned about Sheen’s health. By now you should all know that the Charlie Sheen lawsuit is an intriguing mix of conspiracy theory and hatred of Chuck Lorre....
A young Texas college student was shot and killed, and two other people were injured after a fight over the rules of beer pong. Ronald Wayne McNeil, of College Station, Texas, was angry after a fight over the game of beer pong. So, he apparently decided to settle the argument by shooting at, killing, and injuring innocent people. The Attack On May 2nd, Landon Duke threw a graduation party at his home....
Four states had legalized recreational marijuana use in 2015, another 25 have comprehensive public medical marijuana and cannabis programs, and quite a few cities decided not to prosecute possession of small amounts of pot. So you might expect that with this rise in legalization and decriminalization there would be a corresponding drop in marijuana arrests. Instead, as Human Rights Watch reports, marijuana arrests outpaced those for violent crime in 2015....
