Daily Archives: November 5, 2012 - 5 results

A white police officer won $2 million in a federal lawsuit against the city of Ithaca, N.Y. for race discrimination. Christopher Miller claimed he was denied promotions because he was white and that the city promotes based on race. He also claimed his work assignments were changed as retaliation after he filed human rights complaints. An attorney for the city, Arch Stokes of Stokes, Roberts & Wagner, called the claims ridiculous and told the jury that Miller abused his power …

Earlier this year, the National Football League suspended some New Orleans Saints players and the head coach for having a reward system that paid players for purposely injuring opponents. In September, coach Darren Crawford of the Tustin (Calif.) Pee Wee Red Cobras team was suspended when former players reported that the coach ran an apparently similar scheme among his 10- and 11-year-olds, using a cash reward of up to $50 for the “hit of the game” (with last year’s top …

Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast with a vengeance last week, unleashing heavy winds and flooding that wrecked the Jersey Shore, battered New York City and left millions without electricity. The storm left unprecedented destruction up and down the Atlantic seaboard: At least 110 people were killed and 8 million left without electricity in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s passage through the United States Residential communities on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island were nearly wiped out by surging waves and …

Voters in four states on Tuesday will decide whether they want to enshrine a “right to hunt and fish” in their state constitutions. Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska and Wyoming all have ballot measures at the polls on Election Day asking if voters want to add constitutional language to protect residents’ rights to bag deer, ducks, bass and other game, and prevent attempts to restrict those rights. Some 37.4 million Americans participated in hunting and fishing sports in 2011, according to a …

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, hangs in jeopardy this election season. If reelected, President Barack Obama will see the law through to its full implementation in 2014. Challenger Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal Obamacare on the first day of his presidency if elected, and replace it with some yet-to-be-specified alternative. The health care law includes a number of consumer-friendly policies: Allowing children to stay on their parents’ health plan up to …