Two former employees of the Battle Creek police department have agreed to a $161,000 settlement with the city of Battle Creek. The announcement was made only three days before a trial in federal court was supposed to begin regarding the “former employees’ claims of breach of an employment contract” after they were fired for partaking in what the city called an inappropriate relationship.
More products are being recalled due to misbranding and undeclared allergens. This time, Custom Culinary, Inc., based in Oswego, Illinois, is recalling an estimated “9,444 pounds of chicken and beef base products” because the “products’ labels incorrectly identified the products as chicken, but may contain beef.” According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the products might also “contain soy, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label.”
Building a Safer America? Just as the Republican-controlled Congress is considering Health Care, or more accurately Wealth Care, legislation, more people need to be thinking before voting for politicians that care less for people than for money. Our lives depend upon it.
A multi-million dollar settlement has been reached between the city of Chicago and “motorists who received tickets from the city’s controversial red light camera system.” Though the settlement is still awaiting final approval from city council, it is expected to pay out “$39 million to people who received and/or paid red light camera tickets.” According to the settlement, $27 million will be issued in the form of refunds, while the other $12 million will be in the form of “debt forgiveness for those who did not pay the ticket.”
Pet Parrot Witnesses Murder, Spills The Beans
Vitality Injections Subject of Pending Lawsuits
A recent poll shows higher ed is on the outs with Republicans. How do our modern conservatives stack up against the Know-Nothings in valuing education?
Imagine visiting the VA as a veteran for any reason, and seeing cockroaches running about all over the place. The sight probably wouldn’t sit well with you. Unfortunately for many veterans in Phoenix, Arizona, this was their reality, according to one VA whistleblower. According to the whistleblower, they have video evidence of “cockroaches scurrying around the pharmacy room” at the Veteran Affairs (VA) medical center in Phoenix.
Weeks after the death of Otto Warmbier in a North Korea labor camp, the U.S. Department of State announced it would ban American citizens from traveling to the Hermit Kingdom. Citing the purportedly ‘high risk of arrest’ as the basis for the decision, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson authorized a ‘Geographical Travel Restriction’ on all
The American Civil Union Liberties helped settle a case against two Connecticut police officers accused of profiling and unlawfully detaining a black man. The lawsuit arose after Woodrow Vereen of Bridgeport, CT, was pulled over for driving through a yellow light. Vereen, an African-American man and father of three, was taking his two sons out