In the course of another investigation, the Orange County, Calif., district attorney’s office focused on a different issue at an Upland lawyer’s satellite office in Westminster.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has opened a criminal investigation into a closely held Virginia-based company that has been blamed for a salmonella outbreak that allegedly sickened more than…
The Georgia peanut plant linked to an outbreak of salmonella sold its products despite a dozen internal tests over the last two years that indicated contamination with the disease, according…
An injured cheerleader won’t be able to sue her school district and another member of her squad as a result of a ruling today by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
An insurance company fighting to avoid paying a claim in a fatal Houston 2007 office fire that could involve damages of $25 million is reportedly dropping its effort to apply…
Two Chinese milk producers have received death sentences for selling dairy products laced with melamine, a toxic compound that led to the deaths of at least six children.
A Florida couple has dropped their lawsuit contending that United Airlines was responsible for a woman’s beating by her husband because it served him too much alcohol on a flight…
Responding to a report that three white prostitutes were soliciting, plainclothes police officers in Galveston, Texas, wound up arresting a 12-year outside her home one August day in 2006, according…
In a move that could stretch the traditional definition of “pollution” to the breaking point, an insurer in Texas has asserted the pollution exclusion in its commercial liability policy in…
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