Scores of attorneys will jam a federal courtroom today to argue for almost immediate access to emails and other documents from BP Plc and its business partners as the legal fight over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill heats up. …
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was hit with a gender bias lawsuit by three women who said Wall Street’s most profitable bank maintains an “outdated corporate culture” that systematically deprives women of pay and promotions available to men. The plaintiffs are …
Jurors ruled a former Santa Barbara County administrator who was demoted, then fired, for complaining about her boss should get $431,000 for emotional distress and loss of past and future wages. Heidi Garcia, who was the assistant director of county …
President Barack Obama has signed a major disaster declaration for five New Mexico counties flooded by heavy rains this summer. The declaration makes McKinley, Cibola, Mora, San Juan and Socorro counties eligible for public assistance for expenses related to repairing …
Crews have removed a 12-foot section of pipe at the site of an oil spill outside Chicago that led to a spike in regional gasoline prices, but it could take weeks to clean up the contamination, federal officials said. It’s …
Federal emergency officials say they’ve received just more than 71,000 registrations in Illinois for flood assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Monday that as of Sept. 11 it has approved more than $148 million in assistance and inspected more …
The former director of aviation at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport and his wife have backed out of a plea agreement to resolve charges they tried to profit from a bogus insurance claim after Hurricane Katrina. Sean Hunter and …
Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit over strip searches for nonviolent offenders. County solicitor Michael Wojcik tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review the county agreed to settle because the courts have recently favored plaintiffs in …
One of Erie, Pennsylvania’s most visible landmarks has been repaired and reinstalled: the gold-colored cross atop the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Paul. The eight-foot cross was removed in February after the 120-foot-tall steeple and the cross were damaged by a …
Tropical Storm Karl hit Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday and was expected to head into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening Mexican oil installations and possibly gaining hurricane strength. Mexico’s state-run oil giant Pemex has not yet curtailed any operations but said …