Calif. City Struggles to Cope with Possessions of Homeless October 31, 2011 By CHRISTINA HOAG Everything from toasters to typewriters is piled high on a Skid Row sidewalk in Los Angeles, Calif., under the watchful...
West Virginia Board Awarded $2.6 Million in Lawsuit October 31, 2011 The Charleston Sanitary Board will get more than $2.6 million from a company it had hired to make compost out...
Insurer Sues Former Iowa College Administrator October 28, 2011 The insurance company that paid Drake University’s theft claim has filed a lawsuit against the former Drake administrator who stole...
$15M Lawsuit in Mass. Pizza Delivery Killing October 28, 2011 The family of a Boston, Mass., pizza delivery man has filed a $15 million wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against...
Widow of Man Killed by Wyoming Research Bear Sues October 28, 2011 By MEAD GRUVER The widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear not long after the animal awoke from tranquilizers in the...
Kin Sue Amtrak Over Rhode Island Woman’s Death After Fall October 28, 2011 By LAURA CRIMALDI The family of a 91-year-old woman who died a week and a half after falling on a train station platform...
Stop the Press Releases! PR Newswire Sued by Rival October 27, 2011 By Jonathan Stempel When one distributor of corporate press releases concluded that a rival was trying to steal its secrets, it didn’t issue...
New York High Court Dismisses Dogbite Lawsuit October 27, 2011 New York’s highest court has dismissed a 4-year-old lawsuit against Marijane Reilly of Onondaga County and her Labrador-husky mix Mollie,...
New Mexico Family Sues Hotel Over Alleged Peeping October 27, 2011 A New Mexico family is suing an Albuquerque hotel, claiming they caught a worker peeping into their room while they...
Stallone Sued, Accused of Stealing Screenplay October 26, 2011 Action movie star Sylvester Stallone is accused in a lawsuit of copying another writer’s screenplay to make “The Expendables,” a...