Reality TV shows such as HGTV’s “Love It or List It” often leave viewers wondering what really happens off camera. In a span of 60 minutes, the show’s fans can see a house in need of renovations transformed. What the highlight segments leave to the imagination are the nuts and bolts of construction projects that can lead show participants to tears of joy, or in some cases, unhappiness and …
Ten Medina County residents are among more than 60 people in three counties who joined in filing a federal lawsuit seeking to stop the proposed $2 billion NEXUS Gas Transmission pipeline. The 50-page complaint was filed Friday with the U.S. District Court for Northern Ohio against NEXUS and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. A Final Environmental Impact Statement, or FEIS, was …
Attorneys held a news conference Tuesday morning to discuss a civil lawsuit filed after a 24-year-old man was shot by bounty hunters. “The civil action on behalf of Ms. Anita Jenkins will seek to hold accountable the individuals and business entities responsible for her son’s tragic, but preventable death,” said Mawuli Davis. Jalen Johnson, also known as Jalen …
A 61-year-old man was thrown “headfirst into a cinder block wall” at the Hamilton County jail by a corrections officer last year, leaving …
A Lower Saucon Township couple say their sons have endured racial slurs and race-related attacks in Saucon Valley schools and administrators have failed to protect them. Kerry and Sheila MacLean sued the school district in federal court over race-related events they said they have logged since they moved into the school district in 2013. According to the lawsuit, their high school- and middle …
A day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the controversial anti-sanctuary law, El Paso County Commissioners Court met in closed session to discuss possibly challenging the law in court. County Judge Veronica Escobar declined to provide details on the discussion, but did not rule out a possible lawsuit challenging the law that allows local police officers and sheriff deputies to question people on their immigration status. The law …
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees, and then left. It wasn’t much different for Quinetta Manning.
With the Bridgegate trial now over, a federal judge has ruled that Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale can have his day in court. In a ruling filed Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Leda Wettre reopened a whistleblower lawsuit Speziale filed against the Port Authority that had been put on hold more than a year ago pending the outcome of the Bridgegate trial. Speziale originally filed …
Lifeguards protecting county beaches will no longer be immune to lawsuits. On Thursday, the Senate approved SB 562, which relates to the sunset of Act 170, a measure that protects county lifeguards assigned to any beach from lawsuits. “Act 170 has been a very special honor and recognition for our lifeguards, one not granted to any other professionals.
The parents of a Roane County teenager, who they say was raped at school by a janitor, have filed a lawsuit seeking $4.5 million. The lawsuit was filed Monday against Jessica Elane Galyon, Roane County Schools, and Compass One Services of Tennessee. Compass One is the contractor that employed Galyon. Galyon also faces criminal charges in connection with the rape allegations. In February, a grand jury indicted Galyon, 29, on rape charges that included …