Driven by a “personal vendetta” against a toll bridge company, Alabama’s transportation director planned to build an unnecessary bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway at a cost of more than $100 million to the state, according to a judge who ordered …
A construction worker was killed and another was missing Friday morning after a massive fire broke out in an upscale business and residential area of Charlotte, North Carolina. News outlets reported that the five-alarm fire began early Thursday in or …
Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to Google’s artificial intelligence …
Three employees of the largest agricultural research facility in the U.S. have filed federal whistleblower complaints alleging that the facility’s conditions are hazardous to workers and undermine their research, even as farmers are facing pressing issues like climate change, according …
The US Supreme Court handed social media companies a new line of defense as they face an increasing number of lawsuits alleging their algorithms have harmed users — whether by addicting children or selling suicide kits. In a unanimous ruling, …
GEICO must defend itself against a class-action lawsuit that alleges it failed to include the cost of sales taxes and purchasing fees when it paid total loss auto collision claims in Texas, depriving policyholders of actual cash value. A panel …
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The families of two teenagers shot to death in a Des Moines alternative high school have filed a lawsuit alleging the program and its founder were negligent in not keeping the premises safe. The families …
A BP subsidiary will pay a $40 million penalty and install technology to control releases of benzene and other contaminants at its Whiting oil refinery on the Indiana shoreline of Lake Michigan, Biden administration officials said Wednesday. The actions will …
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Attorneys for a Wisconsin Native American tribe argued Thursday that a federal judge should order an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline the tribe says is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion …
The mastermind behind a global “spoofing shop” that scammed victims out of as much as £100 million ($124 million) has been sentenced to over 13 years in a UK prison. Tejay Fletcher, 35, pleaded guilty over his role as the …