Alaska School District Agrees to Settle Abuse Lawsuit for $3.8M August 19, 2021 An Alaska school district agreed to pay $3.8 million to two children abused by a former principal who said school...
Judge Tosses Most Claims in Oregon Armed Occupation Death Suit August 19, 2021 A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of...
California Drought Hurting World’s Top Almond Producer August 19, 2021 By Terence Chea As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich...
New Jersey Domestic Violence Victim Suing Prosecutor Over Being Named August 19, 2021 A New Jersey woman who killed her abusive ex-fiance can proceed with a lawsuit that claims her rights as a...
Workers at Massachusetts Veterans’ Home at Center of COVID-19 Outbreak Sue August 19, 2021 Employees of the Massachusetts veterans’ home at the center of a devastating COVID-19 outbreak in the spring of 2020 have...
Massachusetts Utilities Seek to Stretch Reimbursement for Storm Damage August 19, 2021 Massachusetts’ two largest utilities have asked to defer reimbursement payments for weather damage after a record amount of storms exceeded...
Biden Administration to Require Nursing Home Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccine August 19, 2021 By Eric Beech and Nancy Lapid President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration will require employees at nursing homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as...
Goldman Sachs to Buy Asset Management Arm of Insurer NN Group for Nearly $2B August 19, 2021 By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM – Goldman Sachs said on Thursday it will buy Dutch insurer NN Group’s asset management arm for around 1.7...
California Wildfires Are Exhausting 10,000-Strong Army Fighting Them August 19, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and David R. Baker There are over 10,000 firefighters battling unprecedented blazes in California, but that isn’t enough, and the state is having a...
States Weighing $26 Billion Opioid Settlement Face Saturday Deadline August 19, 2021 By Nate Raymond U.S. states are racing to meet a deadline to commit to a $26 billion opioid settlement with three drug distributors...