Day: August 22, 2023

Virginia judge allows progress for claims of sexual abuse in ongoing suit by former hospital patients

5:06 pm August 22, 2023

Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of a Virginia children’s hospital can move forward, a judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that many of the allegations were time-limited under the state’s medical malpractice law. Judge Bradley Cavedo issued the ruling Aug. 14 in […]

Massachusetts man sentenced to 3 years in Rhode Island for stealing $1 million from employer

4:16 pm August 22, 2023

The former IT director of a Rhode Island metals fabrication company convicted of stealing more than $1 million from his employer and using the money for personal expenses was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison. Juan Hicks, 47, of New Bedford, Massachusetts used his purchasing authority to bilk the company out of the […]

Horse race track in Washington turns prehistoric as 200 ‘T. rexes’ race to the finish line

4:15 pm August 22, 2023

A track for live horse racing in suburban Seattle turned prehistoric over the weekend as more than 200 people ran down the track cloaked in inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur costumes. The 2023 T-Rex World Championships at Emerald Downs — an event that started in 2017 as a pest control company’s team-building activity — ended in […]

Judge asked to allow Montana to ban TikTok as legal challenge moves through courts

4:14 pm August 22, 2023

Montana is asking a federal judge to allow its law banning new downloads of the video-sharing app TikTok to take effect in January while a challenge filed by the company and five content creators is decided by the courts. The state filed its response Friday to the plaintiffs’ motion in July that asked U.S. District […]

Bryan Kohberger kicked out of high school cop classes after girls complained, former administrator says

4:10 pm August 22, 2023

The arrest of 28-year-old criminologist Bryan Kohberger in the Idaho student murders case came as a shock but “made sense” to a former high school administrator who kicked him out of a law enforcement vocational program, she said in a new interview. Although program leaders were told that Kohberger’s dream in life was to join […]