The CFPB sued student-loan company PHEAA, accusing it of illegally collecting borrowers’ payments. The lawsuit claimed PHEAA was collecting on private loans already discharged through bankruptcy. It also accused PHEAA of sending false information about borrowers to credit agencies. A federal consumer watchdog just hit a major student-loan company with a new lawsuit. On Friday, […]
LINDEN – Mayor Derek Armstead has issued an apology for making disparaging comments about Hasidic Jews, while also claiming to be the victim of extortion by a former school district administrator, a complaint that police said they investigated and determined did not warrant further action. Armstead’s apology came in response to comments made in a […]
May 24—A mother of three is suing a substance abuse treatment center in Rio Arriba County, alleging the company employed a man with a criminal history who raped her there in 2022. The civil complaint, filed recently in the state’s First Judicial District Court, accuses the Española-based Hoy Recovery Program of negligent hiring, premises liability […]
A woman has filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks alleging that she sustained a brain injury after she was knocked unconscious and left “limp” and bleeding after riding a waterslide at Typhoon Lagoon in Florida. The lawsuit, filed Monday in an Orange County, Florida, Circuit Court, alleges that Disney failed to provide a safe […]
SPENCER, Okla. (KFOR) – A Spencer woman said a man she hired to work on her yard last month assaulted her with a rake and left her bruised. Evelyn Newton said it happened April 15. Court documents said she told police she hired longtime friend Lawrence Booker to do the yard work for her. ‘The stove […]
A state commission will soon decide whether to revoke a former Boise School District teacher’s license after he was accused of initiating a “sexual relationship” with a high school student and acting inappropriately toward others. Bob Clark, who was employed by the district as a PE teacher, had “sexual relations” with at least one high […]
A former New Mexico priest repeatedly sexually abused a young girl in confessional booths six decades ago claiming she was “chosen by God” to obey him and fulfill his sexual needs, a lawsuit filed against the Catholic Diocese of El Paso states. The lawsuit claims Diocese of El Paso priest Lucio Lopez sexually abused the […]
May 18—A woman who says she participated in an “energy medicine” training at a Galisteo retreat center last year is suing the center and the company that ran the course, alleging she was sexually assaulted by a “shamanic master.” The woman — identified in the complaint only by the initials M.G. — says she paid […]
A former student at McQuaid Jesuit High School sued the school in federal court last month, alleging it failed to prevent sexual harassment and assault. The lawsuit alleges that a teacher and the school administration ignored another student touching the boy’s groin during class. The pattern of abuse culminated with the student attempting to strangle […]
A Luzerne County man faces a federal indictment accusing him of threatening President Joe Biden, as well as the mayors of Kingston and Wilkes-Barre. According to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 37-year-old Jordan Gee of Nanticoke posted several threatening videos on the internet, primarily aimed […]
Convicted Timberview High School shooter Timothy Simpkins will not go to trial on additional charges connected with the October 2021 shooting under plea bargain terms negotiated by his defense attorneys and the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office. Simpkins’ attorney Lesa Pamplin told the Star-Telegram that the defendant will plead guilty to one of the […]
A Michigan woman claims her husband’s death could have been prevented by an awareness campaign about a little-known snorkeling danger, according to her lawsuit against the Hawaii Tourism Authority and the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau. Officially, 64-year-old Ray Johnson’s cause of death in February 2022 was ruled drowning, the leading cause of death for tourists […]