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Uma Thurman’s stalker, Jack Jordan, first made headlines in 2008 when the award-winning actress was granted a restraining order against the overzealous fan. Jordan sent her dark images, showed up at her work and apartment, and made other attempts at personal contact. Thurman was granted a five-year no contact order, which Jordan recently violated. When officers went to serve the arrest warrant in Maryland, they were led to a room where Jordan was sitting in front of a computer with Thurman’s name in a Google search box, Montgomery County, Md....

With millions of Americans taking to the nation’s highways to visit family and friends this holiday season, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offers its Checklist and Tips for Safe Winter Driving, with information and instructions on safety precautions such as checking your battery and anitfreeze level, inspecting windshield wipers and tires, stocking your vehicle, and surviving a winter emergency on the road. NHTSA Safe Winter Driving Tips Checklist NHTSA: Traffic Safety Safe Driving: Do’s and Don’ts (FindLaw) More Driving Safety Information (FindLaw) Motor Vehicle Accidents (FindLaw) You Don’t Have To Solve This on Your Own – Get a Lawyer’s Help Civil Rights Block on Trump’s Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court...

How often have you reached into your wallet to grab a credit card, only to discover it’s missing? When that happens, no doubt you immediately have a rush of adrenalin, feeling financially exposed. Hopefully you just left it at home when you used it to pay for something online at your desk. Or maybe you left it in your blue jeans pocket with your driver’s license from the night before. Should you worry?...

After the housing bubble burst way back in 2008, big banks had quite a few foreclosures on their hands. Only they didn’t do a great job of managing those foreclosures. In 2011, the Federal Reserve found banks like Ally Financial, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and SunTrust botched thousands of foreclosures and ordered them to tidy up their mortgage servicing. And now, finally, in 2018, the Fed has finalized its enforcement action against the remaining banks, fining five of them a total of $35....

In an age where checked bags are rarely free, flight insurance seems like one of those superfluous added costs that airlines try to shoehorn onto tickets. But despite a completely valid suspicion about added costs, flight insurance can be a really smart investment, and it can pay off for passengers. Consider these five scenarios in which flight insurance can come in handy: 1. Trip Cancellation. Airlines understand that travelers often have to cancel their flights for unexpected reasons, but they tend to be somewhat mercenary in charging cancellation fees....

Seven teens were arrested Wednesday for their part in the Chicago beating that went viral. The YouTube beating suspects include a 15-year-old girl, two 16-year-old boys, and three 15-year-old boys. Raymond Palomino, 17, was charged as an adult. The rest were charged as juveniles. They all face counts of robbery and aggravated battery. The brutal beating was filmed and uploaded onto YouTube. The video is more than three minutes long. The teens are shown punching and kicking the 17-year-old victim....

An Alabama federal judge ruled Monday that the state’s abortion clinic law, requiring admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson issued his ruling after a three-week trial on the issue, deciding that the law in question would close more than half of Alabama’s abortion clinics. AL.com reports that Judge Thompson had delayed his decision until Monday in order to consider a similar case that found Mississippi’s abortion clinic law unconstitutional....

About 40 former students at a prestigious Rhode Island prep school have made what are being called “credible reports of sexual abuse, and in some cases rape” by former staff and students, The New York Times reports. The accusations span four decades and are aimed at seven former staff members and four students at the St. George’s School. The school last month announced it was doing a preliminary investigation and it will soon announce who will take over....

American Express has agreed to pay $112.5 million in refunds and fines to settle accusations of unlawful late fees and other deceptive practices. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest issuer of credit cards” had been sued by several federal and state agencies who claimed that the company violated consumer protection laws “at all stages of the game — from the moment a consumer shopped for a card to the moment the consumer got a phone call about long overdue debt,” reports The Associated Press....

The AP is reporting that Chicago attorney Fredrick Goings has been charged with first degree murder over the fatal shooting of “the former girlfriend and infant daughter of New York Knicks player Eddy Curry during a domestic-related dispute.” The shooting of 24-year-old Nova Henry and her 9-month-old daughter Ava, which occurred late last month, generated widespread news coverage, but the arrest was made just last Friday. The AP’s story noted that:...

Two deaths have been connected to yet another large recall of ground beef contaminated with E. coli. The AP reports that beef contaminated with E. coli has caused the death of two individuals, one in New York, the other in New Hampshire. Twenty eight others may have become ill, according to the Center for Disease Control. Here is the USDA’s release about the beef recall. To summarize, Fairbank Farms, in Ashville, New York is recalling 545,699 pounds of fresh ground beef sold at Trader Joe;s, ACME, Price Chopper, Lancaster and Wild Harvest, Shaw’s, BJ’s, Ford Brothers and Giant Food Stores....

California workers may be fired for medical marijuana use, under a ruling issued Thursday by the California Supreme Court. In a 5-2 decision, the court held that California’s Compassionate Use Act of 1996 – which gives authorized medical marijuana users defenses to certain state criminal charges related to marijuana – does not protect workers who test positive for marijuana use. The court declared that “nothing in the text or history of the Compassionate Use Act suggests the voters intended the measure to address the respective rights and duties of employers and employees....

Unless you are installing keylogging software on your own computer, or as part of a legitimate business operation, there’s a good chance you could face some serious criminal penalties. While there are some legitimate uses for keyloggers, most frequently, these are used by hackers to steal personal information, such as usernames and passwords, bank and financial information, or any other information that can be sold or used to extract money from a victim....

There are Halloween pranks and hijinks, and then there’s Halloween crime. Often there will be a fine line between the two. As parents, before you let your little to medium-sized troublemakers loose on the neighborhood, you may want to discuss some of the most common pranks that are actually crimes. Not that your child will be doing any of it, but in case they see it, you’ll want them to be informed....

Last week, the CPSC announced more drop side crib recalls, this time involving all Graco-branded drop side cribs made by LaJobi, about 217,000 units. The CPSC staff urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the recalled cribs and contact LaJobi to receive a free hardware retrofit kit. CPSC urges parents and caregivers to find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. The drop side hardware can break or fail, allowing the drop side to detach from the crib....

One of the primary principles of criminal investigations is that, in their quest for truth and justice, investigators must remain independent and free of interference or influence. Such meddling can take many forms, from bribery and witness intimidation, to evidence tampering and outright lying, and are generally referred to as “obstruction of justice.” In the wake of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week, many are speculating that Comey’s termination was an attempt to thwart investigations into Trump’s campaigns and advisor’s connections with Russia, and therefore amounts to obstruction of justice....

T.J. Miller’s last 12 months have been far from great. In May of last year, HBO announced Miller would not be reprising his role as Erlich Bachman on the hit series “Silicon Valley” for its fifth season. In June, Miller gave a rambling interview to the Hollywood Reporter during which he trashed former colleagues. Six months after that, Miller was arrested for attacking an Uber driver, and less than a week later he was accused of punching a woman and sexual assault while in college....

The psychiatrist treating James Holmes was alarmed enough by the 24-year-old former student to notify the University of Colorado threat assessment committee. The alert came more than a month before the Colorado shootings that left 12 dead. However, because Holmes suddenly dropped out of school, the committee never acted nor did it alert authorities of their concerns, reports ABC. At about the time that Dr. Lynne Fenton warned her colleagues of Holmes, Holmes was busily accumulating guns he would allegedly use in the movie theater massacre....

The family of a New York Mets baseball prospect has been awarded a $131 million jury verdict against the Ford Motor Company. The Mississippi jury ordered Ford to pay after Brian Cole died in an rollover accident while driving an Explorer in 2001. Cole received especially high damages from the jury due to the nature of his profession. Reuters reports that Ford blamed Firestone tires for blowouts and rollover accidents that caused the deaths of Explorer drivers....

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed legislation that will phase out the use of trans fats in food preparation in all state restaurants beginning in 2010, making California the first state to pass such a law. In a news release issued today, the Office of the Governor declared that “scientific evidence demonstrates a strong association between the consumption of artificial trans fat and the development of coronary heart disease and stroke, as well as other chronic conditions such as diabetes....