The New York attorney general’s decision that daily fantasy sports betting sites FanDuel and DraftKings are illegal gambling operations in his state is a blow to the companies, but the multibillion-dollar industry could have more legal headaches yet to come. ...
Read More »Express Scripts sues Horizon, fight over prescriptions grows
The drugmaker Horizon Pharma is questioning its relationship with an Express Scripts business after the pharmacy benefits giant sued Horizon for about $140 million and dumped a pharmacy that dispenses its drugs. Horizon Pharma Plc said it will re-evaluate its ...
Read More »Man convicted in Jewish site killings is sentenced to death
A judge followed a jury’s recommendation and sentenced an avowed anti-Semite to death Tuesday for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites. Johnson County District Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan imposed the sentence for Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., ...
Read More »Vietnam vet pushes for national memorial for 9/11 veterans
Jan Scruggs knew as a young Army infantryman returning from Vietnam that his fellow veterans and his entire country needed a place to go to heal. More than three decades later, the man who led efforts to build the Vietnam ...
Read More »Jackson County budget recommends jail guard pay raise
Jackson County officials are recommending a pay increase for corrections officers at the county jail. The Kansas City Star reports wages for guards would increase from $11.45 an hour to $12.60 and then to $14.55 after one year on the ...
Read More »Georgia man acquitted after 29 years files civil rights suit
A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty for a murder he didn’t commit after police dangled him off a bridge three decades ago, brought charges against his parents and threatened him with the death penalty. Timothy R. ...
Read More »Budweiser maker finalizes $107 billion bid for SABMiller
The world’s two biggest beer makers will join forces to create a company that produces almost a third of the world’s beer. But in the U.S., the deal will not bring arch rivals Budweiser and Miller under the same roof. ...
Read More »A bipedal bear flits in the woods, and activists fight state
Pedals the bipedal bear can clearly stand on its own two feet — but activists in his northern New Jersey terrain wonder for how long. The bear, which gained fame after first being spotted last year ambling around neighborhoods and ...
Read More »Missouri protesters try to stop photographer from doing job
Protesters credited with helping oust the University of Missouri System’s president and the head of its flagship campus openly welcomed reporters to cover their demonstrations Tuesday, one day after a videotaped clash between some protesters and a photographer drew media ...
Read More »Obama appeals to Supreme Court to save his immigration plan
The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president’s plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after lower courts blocked it. A federal appeals court in New Orleans ...
Read More »Ferguson protests influence actions at U. of Missouri
When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in 2010 in a clear reference to slavery, two white students were arrested and expelled. But there was no broader conversation about race ...
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