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Boar’s Head, the deli meat company at the center of a deadly listeria food poisoning outbreak, is being scrutinized by law enforcement officials, the U.S. Agriculture Department disclosed in response to government records requests. Officials with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service refused to share documents regarding the agency’s inspections and enforcement at the Boar’s [...]
The difficulty of cutting food waste has spoiled several states’ attempts to ban it and only one — Massachusetts — has succeeded, according to a study last month in the journal Science. Massachusetts did it by building one of the most extensive composting networks in the country, inspecting more often, keeping the rules simple and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size, false allegations of infidelity and the need to take contraception “to control their moods.” [...]
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A federal agency said it has resumed sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio while communities in suburban Detroit continue their legal fight to bar waste from a World War II-era site in New York. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been sending material from Luckey, [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently reversed a Board of Tax Appeals holding that resulted in some state woodlands — forested lands that produce timber — being overtaxed. The 7-0 court remanded the issue, which centers on an arbitrary $1,000-per-acre clearing-cost rate used for the valuation of agricultural land, to state Tax Commissioner Patricia Harris [...]
A Franklin County appellate panel reversed judgments in three cases in which a Columbus woman was convicted of a fifth-degree felony theft charge in each instance. The Tenth District Court of Appeals panel determined that the trial court failed to make the necessary findings to support imposition of consecutive sentences in each of the cases, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen cautioned that it's not certain that the amount of fluoride typically added to water is causing [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American quarry company said the Mexican government carried out a de-facto expropriation of its properties on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Mexico’s Interior Department issued a decree declaring the firm’s seaport and quarries to be a natural protected area, in effect prohibiting the company’s activities on its own land. President Andrés Manuel [...]
An arbitration board has ruled that U.S. Steel may proceed with its proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel, a deal that faces opposition from its workforce. The board, which was jointly chosen by U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers to decide disputes between them, said that U.S. Steel has satisfied each of the conditions of the [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the conviction of a man who challenged the verdict form used during the trial in which Mario Mays contested charges against him that included violating a protection order. The 4-3 court concluded that a verdict form’s citation of the statutory section that mandates the degree of the offense satisfied [...]