(Reuters) – A prosecutor in Uvalde, Texas, has convened a grand jury to investigate whether police were criminally liable for failing to promptly storm a classroom in a 2022 mass shooting that killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers, Texas media reported. District Attorney Christina Mitchell said the grand jury would review evidence and weigh possible […]
Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a US Justice Department report. The report released on Thursday identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of the […]
Three restaurants failed within the past two Arlington health inspection periods, according to city data. No restaurants were closed. There were 53 inspections from Dec. 24 to Dec. 30. Arlington inspections are based on a 100-point scoring system. A score of 100 is a perfect score, and 70 is considered to be extremely poor. Two […]
The manufacturer of the Alaska Airlines door plug that detached midair during a flight was the subject of a class action lawsuit last year that alleged “widespread quality failures.” Boeing is under intense scrutiny after the mishap Friday on Alaska Flight 1282. A panel of the plane snapped off just six minutes after takeoff, leaving […]
US offices Emergency lending by the US federal authorities has bathed America’s struggling regional banks in short-term liquidity, disguising the slow-burn damage of the US commercial property slump. A sobering analysis by four of the country’s leading finance experts says this comfort blanket has created a beguiling illusion of stability. The underlying crisis in the […]
Utah is known as the home of Silicon Slopes for good reason, as an early incubator of the computing revolution and a home to high-tech companies and countless startups. But Utah is also a national leader in business failures, which may actually be a secret to its economic success. The state has long benefitted from […]
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have heavily criticised social media platform X, saying it is not doing enough to take down harmful content. Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin both questioned the direction the platform, formerly known as Twitter, has taken since it was taken over by Elon Musk. The European headquarters of X are based in […]
Three months after student loan payments restarted, some borrowers are experiencing delays and seeing billing errors from student loan servicers. What’s causing the turmoil, in part, is the entry of new loan providers into the process after three companies bowed out in 2021. Around 44% of federal student loan borrowers who had payments resume in […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez on Wednesday said the state sued Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saying the social media company had failed to protect children from sexual abuse, online solicitation, and human trafficking. “Our investigation into Meta’s social media platforms demonstrates that they are not […]