Articles by Amanda Lee Myers

California Jury Awards $9M to Family of Woman Shot to Death

A California jury has awarded $9 million to the family of a woman fatally shot seven times by police in Long Beach in 2017 in what the family’s attorneys say is the largest such award in city history. The federal …

9 with Cancer Sue DuPont Over West Virginia Plant Chemical

Nine Ohio and West Virginia residents who have cancer and other diseases have filed federal lawsuits this month against chemical giant DuPont Co. The lawsuits accuse the Wilmington, Del.-based company of knowingly contaminating drinking-water supplies with a chemical known as …

Ohio Jury Awards Firefighter $224K in Discrimination Suit

The city of Cincinnati created a hostile work environment and retaliated against a longtime firefighter, but he wasn’t targeted for his race, a jury concluded on Sept. 4. The verdict came after four days of deliberations and a weeklong trial …

Ohio Air Crash Shows Risks, Thrill of Wing Walking

Risking death every time they go to work, wing walkers need courage, poise, a healthy craving for adrenaline and, most importantly, they need to be meticulously exacting with every step they take on the small planes that carry them past …

Cincinnati, Ohio Looks to Capitalize on Alcohol Tourism

Kentucky has its bourbon distilleries, St. Louis its Budweiser factory, Napa and Sonoma their wineries, and cities from San Diego to Philadelphia have turned into meccas for beer lovers looking for local craft brews. Now business owners and history buffs …

Insurance Giant Buys Out Cincinnati Women’s Home

A major insurance company has bought out a nonprofit home for struggling women in Cincinnati in a deal announced Monday, ending a bitter two-year court battle over the home’s historic property in a beautiful downtown neighborhood. Western & Southern Insurance …

Ohio Women’s Home Fighting Insurance Company to Stay Put

Supporters of a nonprofit home for struggling women on May 8 protested the continued efforts of a major insurance company to force them to move out of their beautiful downtown neighborhood as a pivotal court hearing on the matter was …

Ex-Bengals Cheerleader Libel Retrial Set for July

A defamation lawsuit involving a gossip website and a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader convicted of having sex with a teenage student has been scheduled to go to trial again this summer in court in Kentucky. Former high school teacher Sarah …

Mistrial Declared in Cincinnati Bengal Cheerleader Libel Suit

Jurors in a courtroom in Covington, Ky., couldn’t decide whether two lewd posts about a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader were substantially true or not, leading a federal judge to declare a mistrial Friday in her $11 million defamation lawsuit against …

Blogger Defends Against Cincinnati Bengals Cheerleader’s Defamation Claim

A gossip website operator defended himself in court this week against a defamation lawsuit by arguing that a former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader featured in posts on the site is a public figure. Hooman Karamian, who goes by the name Nik …