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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The $2.8 billion settlement that will reach into every corner of college athletics in the months ahead had its final hearing earlier this week, including athletes who criticized the sprawling plan as confusing and one that undervalued them, and attorneys who said they were concerned about the impacts on campuses across [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether federal law pre-empts thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. Bayer’s new request to the nation’s highest court comes as it is simultaneously pursing legislation in several [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge to gun laws in New York that ban firearms from certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character.” The high court did not give an explanation on why it chose not to hear the case. The [...]
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s comptroller authority said an audit found irregularities in the renewal of a 25-year port concession in the interoceanic canal and it would request an investigation into the authorization of the contract to a Hong Kong company. Comptroller-General Anel Flores said the audit found some payment defaults, accounting miscalculations and some [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Industry groups representing hundreds of chemical and petrochemical manufacturers are seeking blanket exemptions from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. The request by the American Chemistry Council and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers comes as the Trump administration offers industrial polluters a chance [...]
POINTE À LA HACHE, La. (AP) — Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled last week following a trial more than a decade in the making. Jurors found that energy giant Texaco, acquired by Chevron in 2001, had for decades violated Louisiana [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decades long problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast. U.S. Customs and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic officials in 19 states filed a lawsuit last week against President Donald Trump’s attempt to reshape elections across the United States, calling it an unconstitutional invasion of states’ authority to run their own elections. The lawsuit seeks to block key aspects of it, including new requirements that people provide documentary proof [...]
A Grafton Correctional Institution inmate convinced a Franklin County appellate panel to vacate the trial court judgment and a plea agreement relative to the man’s felony drug possession conviction because it was based on a flawed sentencing recommendation. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel noted that neither the Franklin County Common Pleas Court’s judgment [...]
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is seeking lead-plaintiff status in a securities class-action lawsuit accusing Target of misleading investors about the financial risks of initiatives promoting the company’s social agenda. Yost filed a motion to lead the case on behalf of the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. The lawsuit alleges that Target artificially inflated [...]