The CDC has confirmed that the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, is currently the deadliest drug in the United States. In Oregon, specifically, law enforcement officials are combating a 91 percent increase in fentanyl deaths between 2016 and 2017.
A new study suggests that a children and adolescents iare dying from opioid overdoses at startling rates. Between 1999 to 2016, the mortality rate for youth and adolescents due to opioid ingestion nearly tripled.
A lawsuit settlement was recently reached between the Cambridge Central School District and retired employees over “changes made to their prescription drug benefits.” According to the suit, which was filed back in January 2016 in the State Supreme Court of Washington County, there were a total of 24 retired workers included in the complaint. The retired workers filed the lawsuit after “the district’s health insurance provider, the Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES Health Consortium Trust, dropped the more expensive Empire Blue Cross Matrix Plan” and switched “active employees to a less expensive plan.”
AC Transit is at the center of a class-action lawsuit over allegations that it discriminated against pregnant and breastfeeding employees. The suit also alleges that women are often “laughed at when requesting accommodations for their pregnancies.” The lawsuit was officially filed in Alameda County Superior Court and argues the “public transit agency, which serves Alameda and Contra Costa counties, fails to meet the needs of pregnant or breastfeeding employees.”
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A faulty elevator repair job caused the equipment to malfunction and paralyzed an officer. Settlement reached.
President Donald Trump’s demands for a bigger, better border wall are taking a toll on immigration agents and officers. While the federal government continues to grind through a partial shutdown, not all of its employees are exempted from staying home. Workers who perform ‘essential’ functions still have to punch the clock, without pay or knowing
A San Francisco judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by survivors and family members of a 2015 mass shooting in California. The suit, writes National Public Radio, accused Facebook, Google and Twitter of knowingly supporting the Islamic State terror group and assisting its social media campaign. Fourteen people were killed and another 22 injured when
A California family is suing the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, alleging that law enforcement waited a day before starting a search for injured mountain biker Andres Marin. Marin, writes the Press-Enterprise, called his wife just before sunset on March 1, 2014. It was his birthday, and he’d spend the latter half of the day mountain