Panera Bread has reportedly reached a legal settlement with the family of college student Sarah Katz, who died after she consumed a highly caffeinated “Charged Lemonade” from the restaurant in 2022. Katz’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the fast-food chain on Oct. 23, 2023, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. They alleged…
Hurricane Milton quickly intensified Sunday and is on track to become a major hurricane with the Tampa Bay area in its sights, putting Florida on edge and triggering evacuation orders along a coast still reeling from Helene’s devastation. While forecast models vary, the most likely path suggests Milton could make landfall Wednesday in the Tampa…
A determined dad from South Carolina wasn’t about to let Hurricane Helene stop him from walking his daughter down the aisle, so he hitched rides and trekked over 20 kilometres on foot through debris and flooded roads to attend her wedding. David Jones told the incredible story to local broadcaster WJHL and People magazine, recounting…
Dockworkers in the United States East Coast and Gulf Coast entered the third day of their strike as reports emerged of localized toilet paper shortages across the U.S. But experts say any lack of supplies on shelves has little to do with the strike itself, and more to do with consumer behaviour. Ronalds Gonzalez, a…
Some Canadians looking to the sky this weekend could be in for a treat as two solar flares that erupted on the sun on their way to Earth, potentially bringing some intense displays of the northern lights. The Space Weather Prediction Center in the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminsitration (NOAA) said on Thursday that…
Boeing’s BA.N largest union said on Friday that contract talks will resume on Oct. 7, as both sides seek an agreement that would put an end to a strike by around 33,000 of the planemaker’s U.S. West Coast factory workers. Negotiators for the U.S. planemaker and its largest union have struggled to find common ground,…
A New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a couple that suffered life-altering injuries in a car accident while taking an Uber cannot sue the tech giant because they agreed to binding arbitration in Uber’s terms of service. The couple is pushing back, claiming that their daughter, who is under 18, was the one who…
Three former Memphis officers were convicted Thursday of charges of witness tampering in the 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, and two were acquitted of federal civil rights violations in a death that sparked national protests and calls for broad changes in policing. Jurors deliberated for about six hours before coming back with the mixed…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports says it has reached a deal to suspend their strike until January to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance said in a joint statement…
Donald Trump laid the groundwork to try to overturn the 2020 election even before he lost, knowingly pushed false claims of voter fraud and “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling to power, according to a newly unsealed court filing from prosecutors that lays out fresh details from the landmark criminal case against…
