North Carolina resident Dontae Sharpe is now a free man after serving 24 years behind bars for a murder that he did not commit. North Carolina's Governor, Roy Cooper, announced last week that Sharpe would be granted a pardon of innocence for his wrongful conviction. Sharpe will also be paid... Read More »
Carole Baskin lost her legal battle against Netflix last week after a judge shot down her request for a temporary restraining order. Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, are the owners of Big Cat Rescue, a tiger sanctuary located in Tampa, Florida. Baskin became a household name after the hit... Read More »
As lawsuits continue to pile up against Travis Scott and promotion company Live Nation Entertainment, the blame game has begun as authorities try to piece together how and when Scott’s Astroworld concert turned deadly. The Astroworld festival left eight concertgoers dead and many others injured Friday, November 5th. Nearly a... Read More »
Residents of Benton Harbor, Michigan, have come together to file a class-action lawsuit over the town’s lead-contaminated water supply. The 63-page complaint was filed by 16 residents who allege that both state and city officials did not properly inform residents about the contaminated water in Benton Harbor. The complaint details... Read More »
U.S. District Judge Judith Levy has given final approval to a $626.25 million settlement that will be paid out to the residents of Flint, Michigan, who were impacted by the water crisis that caused lead in piping to seep into the city’s water supply. In an effort to save money,... Read More »
A criminal investigation has been opened after multiple concertgoers died and dozens of others were injured during rapper Travis Scotts’s performance at Astroworld Festival in Houston last week. Authorities confirmed over the weekend that eight concertgoers died after the massive 50,000 person crowd surged forward, crushing attendees. The victims ranged... Read More »
Bankruptcy can be a scary and complicated process to navigate, but for some individuals, families, and businesses, it's a necessary step for moving forward after mounting financial debt. A new piece of legislation aims to streamline this complicated process by replacing Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy with a revamped... Read More »
A jury has reached a verdict that would require pharmaceutical giant Bayer to pay $62 million to students and others in Monroe, Washington’s Sky Valley Education Center. The suit was brought by two parents, four former students, and one other adult who details having spent an excess of time at... Read More »
On Tuesday, Facebook, now rebranded as Meta, announced that it would be shutting down its facial recognition program. The program has over one million individual facial recognition templates that it plans to delete. In a statement released by Meta, the brand explains that societal concerns and uncertainty about regulation are... Read More »
Three men have been indicted for narcotics conspiracy after over one ton of cocaine was intercepted entering the New York area last week. Jorge Aponte-Guzman, Nelson Agramonte-Minaya, and Carlos Maisonet-Lopez were arrested in connection to transporting the cocaine through the New York region. Authorities explain that at the end of... Read More »
A Minnesota man is facing five criminal charges after trying to extort the Major League Baseball organization out of $150,000. U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York, Damien Williams, announced last week that along with the extortion attempt, Joshua Streit, 30, also known as Josh Brody, allegedly “illegally... Read More »
Popular chocolatier See's Candy is at the center of a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus. The employee’s husband later contracted the virus from her and passed away shortly after. Maria Saucillo was a longtime employee of the See's Candy Shop packaging warehouse... Read More »
Whether you're Britney Spears looking to end your marriage after 55 hours, had a night in Vegas involving Elvis and a chapel, or are your average joe ready to call it quits after several years, divorce and annulment are two words that might pop up in the conversation. But what... Read More »
A death row inmate at Oklahoma’s state penitentiary reportedly began to convulse and vomit after he was executed last Thursday. His body’s reaction to the state’s lethal injection method has sparked renewed criticism surrounding the three-dose lethal cocktail used in states throughout the nation. Oklahoma inmate John Marion Grant, 60,... Read More »
The Biden administration is in discussions with lawyers representing migrant families about the possibility of payment after children were separated from their parents during a controversial Trump-era policy. During the Trump Administration, immigration took a front-row seat as Trump vowed to close the border in an effort to stop illegal... Read More »
