A California woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of DUI and manslaughter after witnesses saw her driving with a critically injured man on the hood of her car. Sherri Wilkins, 51, of Torrance, was allegedly driving drunk when she hit Phillip Moreno, 31, as he was walking across the street. Somehow Moreno flew up onto the hood of her car and his body got stuck in her windshield, police told Los Angeles’ KNBC-TV....
Bar patrons are looking for a good beer. And good bars are trying their best to give it to them. That’s what McCormick and Schmick’s, an Atlantic City bar, was trying to do by keeping its tap lines clean. Good bars also try their best not to poison their guests. But that’s also what McCormick and Schmick’s did by failing to properly rinse the tap lines, leaving a corrosive and potentially deadly cleaner in there, and then serving it to a bar patron with a Sam Adams Winter Lager....
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered Amgen to make labeling changes to two drugs used for the treatment of anemia. Prescribing information for Aranesp and Procrit must now include warnings on the risk that the drugs may actually worsen the effects of cancer when administered to patients undergoing chemotherapy. In a letter to Amgen, the FDA stated that the new labeling must “address the risk of increased mortality and/or poorer tumor outcomes” in patients being treated for certain types of cancer....
A letter from the Federal Election Commission to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign cited over 1,000 donations that may have violated various campaign finance laws, totaling around $1.3 million in campaign funds. The letter, which you can read in full below, alleges Trump accepted donations from unregistered political groups and that individual donations exceeded legal limits. According to CNN, these letters aren’t uncommon, and Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders both received similar notices in the past....
Anyone who has played a game online in the last decade will attest that there are plenty of moments in which normal trash talk turns to racial slurs and threats of violence. One MMORPG player was consistently affronted by threats of rape and murder, and even when she brought the problem to the game’s CEO, he banned her saying he was “tired of hearing about this problem,” reports The Guardian. (MMORPG stands for “massively multiplayer online role-playing game....
Got joining a gym on your list of New Year’s resolutions? Getting in shape is certainly a good idea, but you should know that consumers often regret the gym contracts that they sign. When you visit the gym, you should not sign up for a gym membership on the spot. Instead, take the gym membership contract home with you to carefully review in peace. In fact, by not signing up on the spot, you may even get the gym to make you a better offer....
Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery. So why isn’t Aquazzura happy that Ivanka Trump allegedly copied its Wild Thing shoes? The Italian shoe designer is suing the daughter of the Donald, and her licensing company Marc Fisher, for knocking off a popular sandal that it claims to have made famous. Ivanka’s shoe is called the Hettie and her licensing company denies that it’s an imitation of Aquazzura’s slipper....
Jack White’s estranged wife Karen Elson has secured a temporary restraining order against the former frontman of the White Stripes. Elson, 34, a British model, successfully asked a Tennessee court to issue the temporary restraining order (“TRO”) in July, according to E! News. The TRO prohibits all contact between the ex-couple, except for the purposes of discussing custody issues. What’s behind the TRO, and could it become permanent? Jack White and Karen Elson tied the knot in 2005 and separated in 2011, filing for divorce just last year, E!...
Laws protecting intellectual property are very important, especially to businesses. Copyrights and trademarks are often the lifeblood of a particular business as they can be very important for brand recognition. When it comes to fashion, patterns and even colors can be very important for brand recognition. Protecting the Camouflage Pattern In the complaint filed in federal court, Jordan Outdoor Enterprises, a Georgia-based clothing manufacturer, claims that Kanye West’s company “incorporated Jordan’s copyrighted camouflage patterns into its products without authorization....
Kylie Jenner was hit with a lawsuit earlier this week, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, for trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, and unfair competition. Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark on or in connection with goods in a manner that is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods. The problem for Herrmann is that she filed for the trademark after Kylie’s product hit the market....
Voter eligibility and voter fraud have been big topics over the past few elections, with voting rights and voter ID laws seemingly in constant flux. One of the ways in which some states try to maintain accurate lists of eligible voters is by culling its voter rolls of people who fail to appear at the polls and who then fail to respond to a notice. U.S. Navy veteran and Ohio resident Larry Harmon was one such person, who found out he had been culled after going to his local polling place to vote in 2015....
Texas inmate Cleve Foster was set to be executed Tuesday evening. That is, until the nation’s highest court halted his execution. The Supreme Court’s stay of execution came down just hours before Foster was set to die. It was also the second time this week the court issued a stay of execution to a Texas death row inmate. Foster, 47, is a former Army recruiter who was sent to death row for allegedly raping and murdering a woman he met at a Texas bar in 2002....
A settlement has been reached between Visa and MasterCard with the U.S. Justice Department, allowing merchants to provide customers with reward incentives to encourage paying with lower-cost debit or credit cards. The settlement did not involve any money. The DOJ lawsuit settlement was not well received by competitor American Express. Amex plans to fight a antitrust lawsuit filed by the government. “We have no intention of settling the case,” American Express Chief Executive Officer Kenneth I....
The Sikh temple shooter may have been motivated by prejudice but does that make Sunday’s tragedy a hate crime? Wade Michael Page, who was identified as the shooter at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, has been investigated and the findings are troubling. He was a member of a racist skinhead band in 2010 and tried to purchase goods from the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, as early as 2000. If the attack was racially motivated, it should be classified as a hate crime....
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cheerleaders who are injured while participating in the activity cannot sue other participants for accidentally causing the injuries. Brittany Noffke, a varsity cheerleader at Holmen High School, brought the lawsuit after sustaining a serious head injury when she fell off the shoulders of another cheerleader and her spotter was not in position to catch her. As the AP reported, the ruling was based on a “Wisconsin law that prevents participants in ‘contact sports’ from suing each other for unintentional injuries....
Six Cleveland cops have been charged in a deadly police chase and shooting which left two dead in a hail of bullets in 2012. Patrolman Michael Brelo faces two counts of voluntary manslaughter while five other officers are accused of dereliction of duty. This case is somewhat unique according to an attorney for one of the victim’s relatives, because prosecutors rarely indict an officer for manslaughter in an excessive force case, reports The Plain Dealer....
An Arizona elementary school teacher is being charged with murder following a suspected DUI crash. Erica Kristine Flynn was a third grade teacher at Frye Elementary School in Chandler, Arizona, reports Phoenix’s KTVK-TV. But Flynn will reportedly not be returning to her job next semester after being arrested and charged with second-degree murder following a crash that a killed a woman December 27. Why is Flynn being charged with murder in the crash?...
An army general accused of sexual assault accepted a plea deal in exchange for dismissing many of his serious criminal charges. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair appeared in military court at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Monday and admitted to lesser charges in exchange for prosecutors dropping counts which included allegations of death threats and forcing a former mistress to perform oral sex, The New York Times reports. How does Sinclair’s plea wrap up this ugly case?...
Juvenile crime across the country is tracked by numerous agencies. For the last 20 years, The National Center for Juvenile Justice has compiled reports that analyze data from the FBI, Centers for Disease Control, and state organizations. The latest statistics on juvenile justice are from 2014. The report reveals both heartening and disappointing trends. Today’s Youth Less Likely to Murder Today’s youth are considerably less likely to be implicated in murder than youth in the 1990s....
Illinois’ eavesdropping law cannot be used to punish individuals who record police officers in public places, according to a new ruling by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. To do so “likely violates the First Amendment’s free-speech and free-press guarantees.” This conclusion was reached in a preemptive suit brought by the ACLU, which had planned to record police officers as part of an accountability project. The project had stalled, as the group feared prosecution under the law....
