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Jul 06 2023
News
Vermont will pay foreign investors $16.5m to settle Jay Peak lawsuits
The state of Vermont has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle all pending and potential lawsuits from foreign investors in development projects at the Jay Peak resort, the ski area that was shaken by a massive fraud case involving its former owner and president, officials said Wednesday. In 2016, the federal Securities and Exchange Commission and the state alleged that former Jay Peak owner
FortuneMay 18 2023
News
Massive fire erupts in Charlotte, North Carolina's SouthPark area
The Charlotte Fire Department says it is battling a massive blaze Thursday at a construction site in the North Carolina city’s SouthPark area. Video released by the department shows flames and smoke billowing from a structure in the 7700 block of Liberty Row Dr. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in a statement for the public to "please avoid the SouthPark area and seek alternate
Fox News (Online News)May 18 2023
News
Memorial Day Weekend 2023: Parade, Events In Basking Ridge
The Bernards Township Memorial Day Parade is the highlight of the three-day Memorial Day Weekend — May 27-29 this year. As a result of the parade Church Street from the Town Green to Liberty Corner Fire House will be closed on May 29 from 9 to 11 a.m. As the observance has changed over the years, many families also use Memorial Day as an occasion to visit Basking Ridge cemeteries and leave
Patch.comMar 14 2023
News
Truck driver cited for hitting overpass that shut down eastbound I-94
WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI -- The driver who hit a freeway overpass near Ann Arbor on Monday has been cited and may be liable for repairs, police said. Eastbound I-94 near Jackson Avenue, Exit 172, was shut down around 9 a.m. March 13, when a truck struck the Liberty Road overpass, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. The crash rerouted traffic to M-14 and closed the Liberty Road overpass.
MLive.comMay 18 2023
News
Charlotte fire: Crews battle massive four-alarm blaze in South Park neighborhood
A rescue operation was underway as crews battled a four-alarm fire that broke out Thursday morning in Charlotte, North Carolina, first responders said The Charlotte Fire Department reported it responded to a structure fire call before 10 a.m. ET in the city's South Park neighborhood. About 10:30 a.m., the department tweeted it was on scene of a four-alarm fire on Liberty Row Drive and was
"USA Today" ContributorJun 30 2023
News
Sotomayor blasts court in scathing dissent on same-sex wedding case
Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Supreme Court’s decision to back a Christian wedding website designer’s choice not to provide services to gay couples, calling the decision “profoundly wrong” in a scathing dissenting argument read from the bench. “Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a
The HillJan 14 2023
Opinion
A Politically Split Congress Can Perhaps Fuel Federal Surveillance Reforms
The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging Congress to renew its secret surveillance authorities before they expire at the end of the year. Split control of Congress provides an excellent opportunity for lawmakers to take the time to reform these laws so that American citizens have stronger protections from unwarranted snooping that's supposed to only be used to track foreign spies and
ReasonApr 19 2023
News
Family of Tyre Nichols files $550 million lawsuit against Memphis over fatal police beating
Rodney Wells (C) and RowVaughn Wells, the stepfather and mother of Tyre Nichols, and civil rights attorney Ben Crump in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 2023. Lawyers representing the family of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who died days after he was brutally beaten by officers during a traffic stop in January, filed a multi-million dollar federal civil lawsuit against the city of
AxiosJul 24 2023
News
Biden to designate national monument for Emmett Till
President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said.
Till's lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil rights movement.
Mr Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday which is Till's birthday, 25 July.
BBC NewsMay 25 2023
News
US cities to pay record $80m to people injured in 2020 racial justice protests
At least 19 cities will pay settlements to protesters who sustained injuries as a result of law enforcement action
Cities across the US have agreed to pay out a total of more than $80m in settlements to protesters injured by police during 2020 racial justice protests – a figure experts believe is unprecedented and will rise further as many lawsuits are still playing out.
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