South Florida condo owners are dumping their homes after getting slapped with six-figure special assessments Maria Tkachun and her husband shelled out $490,000 for a seventh-floor apartment with a terrace and balcony boasting incredible views of South Florida’s Biscayne Bay in 2022. The couple coughed up an additional $100,000 to renovate their unit in the […]
HULL ‒ The town has agreed to pay former superintendent of schools Michael Devine $700,000 to settle a federal anti-gay discrimination case filed in 2021. The settlement was reached after Devine testified during the second day of trial in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston. In the agreement, which Hull […]
LECOM Senior Living Center has been fined $182,160 after an incident Jan. 30 in which a resident attempted suicide after hoarding about 100 muscle-relaxing pills. It comes less than a year after the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home was fined $176,348 after two residents suffered second-degree burns when physical therapy staff used an electrical stimulation […]
Sorry, Gen Z grads: Ritzy college degrees just aren’t the golden ticket to big paychecks that they perhaps used to be. New data shows that even those studying at Ivy League schools aren’t guaranteed a six-figure salary. The Department of Education’s College Scorecard tracked the median earnings, average annual cost, and median debt for former […]
A flight attendant who broke her leg in seven places during severe turbulence has won a six-figure payout. Eden Garrity, 31, was pushing a trolley as the Thomas Cook flight from Cuba to Manchester entered a violent Atlantic hailstorm in August 2019. The impact of the turbulence thrust the flight 500ft upwards, pinning her to […]
One of Gary Glitter’s victims is seeking around £500,000 (€580,000) from the disgraced musician in damages, the High Court in London has heard. The woman is suing Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, following his 2015 conviction for abusing her and two other young people between 1975 and 1980. She has previously secured a […]
Laurence Fox should pay “at least six-figure sums” in damages to two people he referred to as paedophiles on social media, the High Court has been told. The actor-turned-politician was successfully sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X. Mr Fox called Mr […]
A lawsuit filed by a Norton police officer against the city was settled last month for a six-figure sum after the parties in the lawsuit appeared before a federal magistrate in Youngstown. Norton Police officer Jason Sams sued the city’s former administrator Robert Fowler, Mayor Mike Zita and other city officials after he and another […]
Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials. Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month. She found that Mr Trump’s compensation […]
‘Just do the math’: California democrat wants to hike the federal minimum wage up to $50 an hour — says six-figure salaries ‘barely enough to get by.’ Is she right? California lawmakers butted heads during a U.S. Senate debate over how much they would hike the federal minimum wage in response to the nation’s affordability […]
Feb. 9—Shelley Gravenstine said a romance scam nearing its fifth year has cost her elderly mother a six-figure inheritance and her home. “I don’t know specifically how much” she has given away, Gravenstiine said of her 78-year-old mother. “I don’t know if I’ll ever know. “All I know is my mom … went through $150,000 […]
Detroit City Council turned down a six-figure contract to pay for murals that the city did not authorize. Street Art Mankind Corp., which brought international artists to Detroit to paint seven murals ahead of the NFL draft around the downtown area, did not get a $215,000 contract for services already rendered because City Council did […]