Agency RecognizesNew Wine Areas
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Alcohol Tobacco and Trade Bureau has recognized three new American Viticultural Areas, allowing wine makers using grapes from those areas to list the designation on their...
View ArticleFormer VA Hospital Union Boss Arrested
MANHATTAN (CN) - The former president of a Veterans Affairs hospital workers union local was arrested Thursday and charged with stealing $112,477 from the union.
View ArticleDoctor Fights State Law on Pain Clinics
NASHVILLE (CN) - A physician and her patients claim a new Tennessee law on pain management clinics unconstitutionally restricts the currency doctors can accept, authorizes search of patients' and...
View ArticleAllstate Will Not Cover Non-Exploding Body
MIDLAND, Texas (CN) - A daughter who found her mother's decomposing body claims Allstate reneged on its promise that her mom's homeowner's policy would pay to clean up the house, telling her that...
View ArticleJudge Who Took Lawyer Donations Pulled in Ill.
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) - A Madison County Circuit judge has been taken off the asbestos docket and reassigned, after receiving controversial campaign donations from attorneys.
View ArticleJehovah's Witness Sues Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (CN) - A Jehovah's Witness claims the Philadelphia City Council discriminated against her because a longtime councilwoman dislikes her religion.
View ArticleBus Companies Say Teamsters Extorted Them
CHICAGO (CN) - Five school bus companies claim the Teamsters conspired to commit "multiple, repeated and continuous acts or threats involving extortion and/or attempted extortion ... in the guise...
View ArticleSEC Says Dad & Son Ran $200M Ponzi
SALT LAKE CITY (CN) - The SEC accuse a father and son of running a $200 million Ponzi scheme "through a complex web of over 200 entities," under the rubric of the father's company, Management...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Explosion Took Out An Eye, Man Says
CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - A man says he was blinded in one eye by an exploding bottle of Coca-Cola.
View ArticleMan Says Neo-Nazi Cops Cost Him 20 Years
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A man who spent 20 years in prison for a drive-by killing he did not commit says he was framed by "a known neo-Nazi, white supremacist police gang" within the L.A. Sheriff's...
View ArticleDefamation
ATLANTA - The executive director of the Instituto de Mexico, a nonprofit promoting Mexico in Georgia, claims two hosts of Davis Broadcasting's Spanish-language talk show on WLKQ-FM, 102.3 defamed...
View ArticleMining
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - The United States wants The Coeur d'Alenes Co. to pay for cleaning up lead and arsenic from the Conjecture Mine in Bonner County.
View ArticleAbercrombie & Fitch
CLEVELAND - A class action claims Abercrombie & Fitch advertised a gift-card promotion in December 2009 as having no expiration date, but voided the cards on Jan. 30, 2010.
View ArticlePost Office to Bag First-Class Overnight Service
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Postal Service plans to largely eliminate overnight service for First-Class mail, and seeks public comments.
View Article'Most Wanted' Fugitive Gets 105 Years
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) - Former Most Wanted fugitive Roger Day Jr. was sentenced Thursday to 105 years in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the Pentagon of $11.2 million by supplying...
View ArticleFDIC Wants Corporate Debt Rating Changes
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation plans to change the rating method savings and loan associations use to determine if a corporate debt security is investment grade.
View ArticleU.S. Says Banks Launder Millions for Hizballah
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal prosecutors accuse the Lebanese Canadian Bank and other Lebanese companies of laundering money for Hizballah, and demand nearly half a billion dollars in forfeitures and...
View ArticleMcDonald's
WAUKEGAN, Ill. - A class action claims McDonald's violated state law in its Monopoly game promotion.
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