California utility scrambles to renegotiate wildfire deal

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s opposition to Pacific Gas & Electric’s restructuring plan just a week after it struck a $13.5 billion settlement with fire victims is forcing the nation’s largest utility to go back to the negotiating table and come up with a solution fairly quickly. The San Francisco-based company needs... Read More

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PG&E

December 16, 2019

Canadian couple gets $9 million jury verdict in bike wreck

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury has awarded more than $9 million in damages to a man and woman from Vancouver, British Columbia, who were struck by an 18-wheeler truck while riding their bikes along Interstate 84 in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The eight-member jury found Exel Inc. — more commonly known as... Read More

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DHL

December 16, 2019

Judge holding bond hearing for man tried 6 times in killings

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A judge is being asked Monday to set bond for a Mississippi man who has been tried six times in the same quadruple murder case. Curtis Flowers, 49, is scheduled to appear in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Winona. That is the town where four employees of the Tardy Furniture store... Read More

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Curtis Flowers

December 13, 2019

Illinois sues e-cigarette maker Juul over youth marketing

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has become the latest state to sue the country’s biggest e-cigarette maker, alleging in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Juul Labs Inc., used deceptive marketing practices to entice minors and misrepresented the amount of nicotine in its products. State Attorney General Kwame Raoul said the company designed its products to lure... Read More

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Juul

December 13, 2019

Man convicted in 2017 Charlottesville car attack to appeal

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An Ohio man plans to appeal his convictions for driving his car into a crowd of counterprotestors during a 2017 white nationalist rally in Virginia. The Daily Progress, citing online court records, reports that a lawyer for James Alex Fields Jr. filed a notice of appeal Monday. In December 2018, Fields... Read More

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James Alex Fields Jr.

December 13, 2019

‘Turf wars’ alarm Florida panel probing Parkland shooting

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida grand jury looking into last year’s Parkland school shooting chided schools, law enforcement and other local jurisdictions over continued “turf wars” that could hamper the response to another crisis. In a report released late Wednesday, the statewide grand jury said the continued squabbling and other “systemic” failures were urgent... Read More

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

December 13, 2019

Ferguson’s monitor fears public tuning out of reform process

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The monitor overseeing the federal consent agreement requiring police and court changes in Ferguson is seeing troubling signs that residents are increasingly disengaged in the reform process. Just 22 people showed up Wednesday for a town hall-style meeting with the monitor team at the Ferguson Community Center. There was a time... Read More

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Darren Wilson, Michael Brown

December 13, 2019

Court won’t halt lawsuits against doctor in murder case

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio hospital doctor who pleaded not guilty to murder in 25 patients’ deaths was unsuccessful in his latest bid to pause more than a dozen related lawsuits while the criminal case is pending. A state appeals court dismissed the appeals from William Husel and his former employer, the Columbus-area Mount... Read More

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William Husel

December 13, 2019

US labor board rules for McDonald’s in unionization case

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled in McDonald’s favor in a long-running case filed by 20 workers who were fired or faced retaliation for trying to unionize. The board said Thursday that it favors a settlement that will require McDonald’s franchisees to pay $171,636 to the affected workers. The franchisees must also notify current... Read More

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McDonalds

December 13, 2019

Civil rights lawyers stake claim in Confederate statue case

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A national civil rights group has warned the leaders of the University of North Carolina that they should reconsider a $2.5 million settlement involving a statue of a Confederate soldier that protesters toppled last year at the system’s flagship campus. In a letter sent to the attorney who represented the UNC... Read More

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Confederate statue

December 13, 2019

Ex-Roman Catholic deacon indicted on child rape charge

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Roman Catholic Church deacon in New Orleans was indicted Thursday on a charge that he raped an altar boy nearly 40 years ago. George Brignac, 84, was charged by a grand jury Thursday with one count of aggravated rape. He was arrested in September. The victim in the case... Read More

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George F. Brignac

December 13, 2019

Man who committed crime to return to prison gets his wish

ESCANABA, Mich. (AP) — A 59-year-old Michigan man who told his lawyer that he wanted to rob an Upper Peninsula business so he could return to prison could be locked up for the rest of his life. Mark Wilson, of Portage, was sentenced Monday to at least 25 years in prison, a sentence that was... Read More

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Mark Wilson

December 13, 2019

US should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People born in the territory of American Samoa should be recognized as U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah decided Thursday in a case filed amid more than a century of legal limbo but whose eventual impact remains to be seen. The cluster of Pacific islands southwest of Hawaii is... Read More

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American Samoa

December 13, 2019

Judge delays decision on removing Texas baby’s life support

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A judge newly assigned to decide if a Texas hospital can remove a 10-month-old girl from life support against her mother’s wishes said Thursday she was allowing more time for a facility to be found that would take Tinslee Lewis, even as a doctor said the most basic activity “causes... Read More

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California utility scrambles to renegotiate wildfire deal

Canadian couple gets $9 million jury verdict in bike wreck

Judge holding bond hearing for man tried 6 times in killings

Illinois sues e-cigarette maker Juul over youth marketing

Man convicted in 2017 Charlottesville car attack to appeal

‘Turf wars’ alarm Florida panel probing Parkland shooting

Ferguson’s monitor fears public tuning out of reform process

Court won’t halt lawsuits against doctor in murder case

US labor board rules for McDonald’s in unionization case

Civil rights lawyers stake claim in Confederate statue case

Ex-Roman Catholic deacon indicted on child rape charge

Man who committed crime to return to prison gets his wish

US should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

Judge delays decision on removing Texas baby’s life support

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