August 28, 2024
RICHLAND, Mich. (AP) — A golf club in southwestern Michigan has agreed to pay $440,000 to settle allegations that it wrongly obtained a loan through a federal program during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said Monday. Gull Lake Country Club, near …
August 28, 2024
When the nationally ranked University of Missouri Tigers football team takes the field Thursday for its season opener against Murray State, fans will notice something unusual on the field: sponsored logos. A new rule change by the NCAA allows sponsorships …
August 28, 2024
Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer. GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim are asking the court …
August 28, 2024
On a hot summer day in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dozens of men removed pipes, asbestos and hazardous waste while working to decontaminate a nuclear facility and prepare it for demolition. Dressed in head-to-toe coveralls and fitted with respirators, the crew …
August 28, 2024
Greg Lindberg, the North Carolina insurance and business executive now awaiting sentencing on a bribery conviction, can’t escape a $524 million arbitration and civil judgment against him, a federal appeals court decided this week. Also this week, the state Supreme …
August 28, 2024
A 1957 Massachusetts law banning the possession of certain switchblades violates the federal Second Amendment right to bear arms, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled. The state court found that switchblades qualify as “arms” under the Second Amendment and …
August 28, 2024
As high temperatures break records around the US and wildfires rip through the West, another climate-driven weather hazard — extreme rainfall — is pummeling the country’s Northeast and scientists say it will get worse as the climate changes. That will …
August 28, 2024
Highstreet Insurance Partners acquired Wingert Insurance Agency in Mill Creek, Washington. Wingert President Jason Wingert and Agency Vice President Shelley Wingert will continue leading their team at Wingert’s current location. Wingert provides employee benefits and property/casualty services to clients across …
August 28, 2024
Ski season is still at least several months away, but the unusually cold storm that frosted West Coast mountain peaks late last week brought a hint of winter in August. The calendar briefly skipped ahead to November as the system …
August 28, 2024
The $38 million verdict in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center remains disputed nearly four months later, with both sides submitting final requests to the judge this week. “The time is nigh to have the …