St. Joe’s sued for softball team’s ‘sexually charged’ hazing
By Gina Passarella, From The Legal Intelligencer A softball player at Saint Joseph’s University has sued the school for Title IX violations stemming from allegations of a “sexually charged” hazing culture within the women’s softball team. The lawsuit, which was…
‘Beautiful Mind’ mathematician John Nash killed in crash
From BBC US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, has died in a car crash with his wife, police have said. Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in…
Sheppard Mullin finds New Orleans police making progress—slowly
By Nell Gluckman, From The Am Law Daily Four years after the Justice Department found that systemic problems at the New Orleans Police Department led to widespread human rights abuses, a court appointed monitor from Sheppard Mullin reports that progress…
Texas governor: flooding had ‘tsunami-type power’ as 12 remain missing
By Amanda Holpuch in New York and agencies From The Guardian Three reported dead as Texas and Oklahoma battered by storms Tornado kills 13 in Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna Texas governor Greg Abbott expanded the emergency disaster zone…
Thoughts from a Vet on Memorial Day
By Jack Pachuta I was raised in Canton, Ohio. Long before the city became known as the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it was the place where William McKinley campaigned for and won the presidency in 1896…
Wrongfully imprisoned man settles claims for $2.75M
By Ben Bedell, From New York Law Journal Kareem Bellamy, who spent 14 years in prison before his 1994 conviction for a murder in Queens was overturned, was awarded $2.75 million Wednesday when a judge approved a settlement of Bellamy’s…
Scientists discovered the world’s first warm-blooded fish
By Will Dunham, Reuters From Business Insider Move over, mammals and birds, and make room for a fish called the opah in the warm-blooded club. Researchers said in the journal Science on Thursday that this deepwater denizen is the first…
The mysterious disappearance of a forgotten filmmaker
By Chris Dickens From OZY When Thomas Edison and his assistant revealed their movie-playing Kinetoscope to the public in 1893, no one seemed to know that the first moving pictures had been shot several years earlier by an unknown inventor…
A lesson in law for Gordon Robinson
I note the article by columnist Gordon Robinson (‘If DPP could only understand herself’, Sunday Gleaner, May 17), outlining commentary and dissection of the media release prepared by my office in respect of a referral from the Office of the…
Caribbean leaders silent on Guyana Elections
By Donya L. Francis a 24 year from St Kitts-Nevis, presently studying in Taiwan- (Journalism and Mass Communication) From Barbados Underground Where were they when what happened in St Kitts-Nevis took place in Guyana? I am writing on behalf of…
