A federal appeals court decision upholding the enforcement of a sweeping Texas abortion law led to the immediate shutdown of 13 abortion clinics, leaving just eight in operation, all of…
A lawsuit filed on Monday against Glen Campbell claims the singer violated an agreement to include a production company in development of a documentary chronicling his farewell tour and Alzheimer’s…
As a result of executive orders from President Barack Obama, federal money is funding research efforts relating to gun violence for the first time in nearly 20 years.
A Georgia lawyer’s plan to split a personal-injury settlement into two checks in an alleged attempt to avoid reimbursing a client’s employer for medical costs has turned out to be…
A New York Times (reg. req.) article about hidden surgery and hospital costs that can hit insured patients with unexpected bills of up to $100,000 or even more is…
A U.S. Army private convicted last year as Bradley Manning in a high-profile military secrets case for providing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, is back in…
A Shreveport, Louisiana-based Popeyes Chicken franchisee has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that it refused to hire an HIV-positive man because of his disability.
A federal appeals court will reconsider a decision that undermined the Obama administration’s health-care law by banning tax credits to people in states that didn’t set up their own insurance…
A federal judge has struck down a Texas law that requires abortion clinics to comply with standards for ambulatory surgical centers. The state is seeking a stay of the ruling.
Clinton Mikel: “Even if you can amend your record… you can’t push it out to everyone. And frankly, you likely don’t know who [to] push it out to.” Photo by Peter Baker.
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