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The EPA and Tesla Settle For Violations at Fremont CA. Plant

Staff Contributor April 2, 2019

The settlement includes a $31,000 fine and a $55,000 payment to the Fremont Fire Department to buy emergency response equipment, including a drone with hazardous waste sensors and a second device to detect unauthorized drones that could impede an emergency response. The…

Are YouTube Creators and other Social Media enthusiasts doing a better job than the Main Stream Media

Mike Ryan March 27, 2019

This may become a discussion in a wave of Lawsuits based on the media’s false reporting of an incident on Jan 18th, 2019. There was a short video showing what looked like a group of young students surrounding an elderly man. They…

Archie Williams freed from jail after 36 Years Behind Bars. A Fingerprint Database Cleared Him

Staff Contributor March 23, 2019

All it took was for technicians in a crime lab to run the fingerprints collected at the scene of a rape, through a national database. Within hours, the experts had established a match with a serial rapist. But that was…

Michigan Man Pleads Guilty To Bank Fraud And Identity Theft

Staff Contributor March 18, 2019

CONCORD NH – United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced on Friday that Deandray Buckley, 27, of Belleville, Michigan, pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Court documents say 27-year-old Deandray Buckley, of Belleville, Mich., stole people’s personal identifying information.…

Proposed Michigan Legislation Would Change Bail System

Staff Contributor March 18, 2019

Michigan lawmakers are looking at making a major change to the state’s cash bail system. Legislation recently introduced would stop counties for keeping low-income, low-risk offenders in jail because they cannot afford bail. Judges would still be able to set bail if…

N.Y. Man Tries to Frame His 12-Year-Old Daughter for Murder

Staff Contributor March 16, 2019

On Wednesday, a jury found Roderick Covlin guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Shele Danishefsky Covlin, 47, The New York Times reports. Unemployed stockbroker Roderick Colvin’s lavish life was about to come to a halt when his wealthy wife filed…

California Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Releasing Police Misconduct & Shooting Records

Staff Contributor March 13, 2019

In a legal blow to police unions trying to block the release of officers’ disciplinary and use-of-force records, a state appeals court on Tuesday declined to hear arguments seeking to overturn a Contra Costa County judge’s ruling last month that pre-2019 records…

Pittsburgh Court rules against Section 8 in discrimination case

Staff Contributor March 13, 2019

At issue in the case was a 2015 city ordinance barring landlords from discriminating based on “source of income” — such as a federally-subsidized Housing Choice Voucher, commonly referred to as a Section 8 voucher. The case, which was brought…

Indigent drivers and North Carolina drivers’ licenses in Federal court

Staff Contributor March 12, 2019

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A federal court judge will hear motions in a lawsuit over a North Carolina law that mandates the revocation of drivers’ licenses for unpaid traffic tickets, even if the driver can’t afford to pay. Advocacy groups sued in May,…

Ohio Appeals Court Overturns Judge’s Decision To Bar Transgender Child From Changing Name

Staff Contributor March 11, 2019

The 12th District Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous decision that Warren County Probate Judge Joseph Kirby’s previous rejection of the name change “was arbitrary, unreasonable, unconscionable and based solely upon the transgender status of the applicant’s child,” The court found,…