Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/18/2023 - 3:00am
In July 2023, a 17-year-old was questioned and subsequently banned from American Airlines for three years for doing allegedly "skiplagging." His flight was from Gainesville, Florida, to New York City but had a layover in Charlotte, North Carolina, his intended destination.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 5:00am
OMAHA — The publicly owned Metropolitan Utilities District has agreed to pay the last claim left in the 2016 Old Market explosion case — bringing MUD’s combined plaintiffs’ payout to $3.15 million.
The $975,000 settlement with M’s Pub was approved Aug. 2 by the MUD Board, said M’s attorney, Tom White.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/11/2023 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 5:00am
The Justice Department announced its second federal indictment of former president Donald J. Trump on Aug. 1, 2023. The charges are groundbreaking and not just because a former president is facing multiple criminal charges.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 4:00am
AUSTIN, Texas — A lawsuit in Texas asserting that the state’s abortion ban imperils women by dissuading doctors from ending dangerous pregnancies could provide a template for similar challenges across the country.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 08/04/2023 - 3:00am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, making him the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for justices in response to increased scrutiny of their activities beyond the bench.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 07/28/2023 - 5:00am
Stephanie Sharp worked in S&S Activewear’s ware- house in Reno, Nevada. S&S allowed its managers and employees to play music in the warehouse because it countered background noise and motivated the work- force. It was played through commercial-strength speakers located throughout the workplace, but employees sometimes placed speakers on forklifts and drove them around, “making it more difficult to predict – let alone evade – the music’s reach.”
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 07/28/2023 - 4:00am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two tax crimes after a deal with federal prosecutors unraveled during a court hearing following the judge’s concerns over the agreement.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 07/28/2023 - 3:00am
The Nebraska Court Improvement Project will be hosting a lecture series in North Platte, August 1, 2023, Hastings, August 2, 2023, South Sioux City, August 8, 2023, and Lincoln, August 9, 2023.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Fri, 07/28/2023 - 2:00am
A South Carolina judge heard arguments in late May 2023 to reconsider the sentence for Jesse Osborne, who carried out a school shooting in 2016. Fourteen years old at the time, Osborne killed his father, then opened fire at Townsville Elementary School, killing a 6-year-old child and injuring others.