Many commuter and freight railroads have made little progress installing safety technology designed to prevent deadly collisions and derailments despite a mandate from Congress, according to a government report released Wednesday. The technology, called positive train control or PTC, uses ...
Read More »Pennsylvania attorney general resigns a day after conviction
Pennsylvania’s attorney general is expected to address her job status within days after she was convicted of leaking secret criminal files and then lying about it. Kathleen Kane showed little emotion as the jury convicted her late Monday of all ...
Read More »New York City settles fatal police shooting lawsuit for $4M
New York City has reached a settlement of more than $4 million with the family of an unarmed man fatally shot by a police officer in a darkened stairwell in November 2014, the attorney for the family said Tuesday. The ...
Read More »Missouri grad assistants worry about social media monitoring
Graduate assistants at the University of Missouri suspect the university is monitoring their private social media conversations as the students attempt to organize. Among hundreds of pages of university emails related to campus unrest last fall, including the resignations of ...
Read More »Al-Jazeera reporters claim mistreatment in Ferguson
Three journalists who reported on the 2014 Ferguson riots for Al-Jazeera America have filed a lawsuit accusing police officers of violating their rights. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in St. Louis, Ash-har Qurashi, Marla Cichowski and Sam Winslade ...
Read More »Insurer Aetna slashes ACA exchange participation to 4 states
Aetna will become the latest health insurer to chop participation in the Affordable Care Act’s public exchanges when it trims its presence to four states for 2017, from 15 this year. The cuts, announced late Monday, come after UnitedHealth and ...
Read More »Case against Capitol protesters moves forward in Missouri
Prosecutors are moving forward with a case against 23 clergy members arrested after participating in a Missouri Senate protest. A few dozen faith leaders sang and prayed outside before jury selected was set to begin Monday at Cole County Circuit ...
Read More »US homebuilder sentiment rises in August as sales improve
U.S. homebuilders are feeling more optimistic about the housing market this month, reflecting strong growth in new-home sales and prices. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday rose two points to 60 following a downwardly ...
Read More »Court rejects Cosby’s attempt to reseal testimony on affairs
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Bill Cosby’s effort to reseal his deposition testimony about extramarital affairs, prescription sedatives and payments to women, saying the documents are now a matter of public knowledge. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Read More »Texas lawyer who lost all death penalty cases says he’s done
Texas lawyer Jerry Guerinot said he no longer represents people accused of capital murder after four decades of posting a perfect record. None of his nearly three dozen capital murder clients was found innocent. Some opponents of capital punishment label ...
Read More »Unorthodox ballot names: A winning strategy?
Candidates for political office typically want to show voters who they are and where they stand. But if they don’t belong to a traditional political party, demonstrating their ideology and political principles on the ballot can be a challenge. A ...
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