Florida nursing home workers face first court hearing in post-hurricane deaths
Four Miami-area nursing home workers were due to make their first court appearance on Tuesday to face charges stemming from the 2017 heat-exposure deaths of a dozen patients after Hurricane Irma knocked out the facility’s central air conditioning.
Actress Lori Loughlin faces hearing in U.S. college cheating scandal
Actress Lori Loughlin is due in court on Tuesday for a hearing on whether the lawyers defending her against charges that she participated in a large college admissions scam have a conflict and must be disqualified.
As Trump policies deepen farmers’ pain, Democrats see an opening in rural America
Seizing on mounting Farm Belt frustration with President Donald Trump’s economic agenda, Democratic rivals are stepping up their push to take back part of rural America, whose overwhelming support for Trump helped propel his upset 2016 election victory…
Even after Epstein’s suicide, his accusers to get day in court
Women who say they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein will get a chance to discuss their accusations in a courtroom on Tuesday, less than three weeks after the financier killed himself while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Two children dead in Ohio, 10 people injured when stolen police car crashes
Two children were killed and at least 10 people injured, including other children, on Monday in a multi-vehicle crash involving a stolen police car in Dayton, Ohio, police said.
Two children dead in Ohio, several injured after stolen police car crashes
Two children were killed and at least 10 people injured, including other children, on Monday in a multi-vehicle crash involving a stolen police car in Dayton, Ohio, police said.
Storm Dorian churns toward Barbados, sending island into shutdown
Tropical Storm Dorian gathered strength on Monday as it barreled west toward Barbados, where residents stocked up on food to hunker down for an onslaught of heavy wind and rain.
19 states, District of Columbia, sue Trump administration over migrant detention
Attorneys general for 19 states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to block a sweeping new rule to indefinitely detain migrant families seeking to settle in the United States.
J&J liable for $572 million in Oklahoma opioid epidemic trial; shares rise
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572.1 million to the state for its part in fueling an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers, a sum that was substantially less than investors had expected, driving up J&J’s shares.
Florida nursing home workers surrender to face charges in post-hurricane deaths
Four Miami-area nursing home workers have been arrested to face criminal charges in the deaths of a dozen patients exposed to sweltering heat during a post-hurricane power outage two years ago, defense attorneys said on Monday.
