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Imagine driving all the way from Sumter, South Carolina, to Washington state. Google Maps says that trip is more than 2,800 miles one way. Imagine driving all the way back with a substantial amount of the Evergreen State’s finest dope ...

Eastern North Carolina baseball fans are in high clover. The region has two new Class A Carolina League teams – one playing in Kinston and another playing temporarily in Buies Creek and moving to Fayetteville in 2019. Two clubs from ...

A woman hurt when an electrical junction box cover fell from the roof of a Wal-Mart store in Staunton can press forward with her negligence suit against the retailer, a federal judge in Harrisonburg has ruled. The accident allegedly resulted ...

Tagged with: Coogan-Golden Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon Negligence U.S. District Court - Western District Wal-Mart

Blair Robertson is a psychic medium who lives in a suburb of Phoenix. He was in Canada late last month for a meeting, out having dinner with a friend, a fellow psychic. Out of the blue, a car crashed into ...

This is not a political item. It is a hat tip to HuffPost (formerly known as The Huffington Post, kind of like Tribune Publishing, which produced Tribune Online Content, now calls itself tronc…kind of like the sound an elephant makes ...

A man can bring a claim for violation of the Stored Communications Act against his ex-girlfriend, who he alleges accessed his personal email after telling her not to do so. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled in Hately v. ...

Tagged with: Judge Gerald Bruce Lee Stored Communications Act U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Should you ever get tired of law practice, you can always get a job as an internet survey interviewer. My email is replete with press releases commemorating the various holidays that invariably crop up, and just an invariably, there is ...

A jewelry store employee who allegedly was fired for refusing to participate in criminal activity has a Bowman wrongful discharge claim, a federal judge in Norfolk has ruled. In Anderson v. Reeds Jewelers Inc. (VLW 017-3-266), U.S. District Judge Raymond A. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A group of tenants can go forward with their claim against a Hampton law firm that it violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act in its work for a number of landlords, a federal judge in Charlottesville has ruled. Senex ...

Tagged with: Judge Glen E. Conrad Senex Law U.S. District Court - Western District

It looked innocent, like it always does. The subject line to the message said, “[So and so] has shared a document with you.” The body text was routine: “[So and so] has invited you to view the following document.” And ...