Minnesota Chipotle Mexican Grill said on Thursday that it had fired a substantial number of the 1,200 employees at its 50 Minnesota restaurants after a federal immigration audit found some were illegal workers. The Star Tribune says a protest was organized by Greg Nammacher, secretary-treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 26 in [...]
North Carolina The Charlotte Observer reports Big plans are in the mix for the Mint Museum’s ancestral homestead on Randolph Road. "I believe the Randolph Road location is an absolute jewel,” Kathleen Jameson told the museum’s support group, Friends of the Mint. “Fundamentally, Randolph Road is central to everything we have to do." Texas Stacey [...]
Nebraska: Lincoln police seize a mace Lincoln police officers responding to a report of a suspicious person near 48th and Pawnee streets early Monday ticketed a man for concealing a weapon, in this case, a mace. The Lincoln Journal Star wrote Monday when police contacted him. An officer noticed something in the pocket of his [...]
Nebraska: Lack of Medicaid coverage hurting babies Andrea Skolkin, CEO of OneWorld Community Health Centers, said the full impact of the lost Medicaid coverage is just beginning to unfold. The Lincoln Journal Star reports while the health center used to see 85 percent of patients on Medicaid, they now see 9 percent on Medicaid and [...]
Illinois: Date set for Marion free speech case A federal judge has set a trial date for next month in which Marion officials, including Mayor Bob Butler, are accused of squelching two men’s free speech rights. The Southern reports attorneys for both sides in the legal fight were unable to reach an agreement in a [...]
Vernon Police: Man Grabbed Woman´s Breast Bienvenido Peter Tosado, 44, of Hartford Turnpike is charged with third-degree sexual assault, breach of peace, interfering with a police officer and refusal to submit to fingerprints, police stated in a press release. From the Hartford Courant According to police, a call came in about a sexual assault at [...]
Alabama: The Strange Vote The following from the Birmingham News Sweet Home Alabama. Where you can’t make this stuff up. Walker County’s Rep. Ken Guin last week cast a crucial “yes” vote in the Alabama House of Representatives, giving Jefferson County’s controversial occupational tax the legs it needed to pass. What is wrong with this [...]
A rare legal case Patti Beeler’s daughter was born almost two years after the child’s father died. Now, in a rare legal case that could reach the U.S. Supreme Court, Beeler is fighting for Social Security survivor benefits for her daughter, Brynn, now 6. The girl was conceived through in vitro fertilization using sperm from [...]
Alaska To Get Local Milk Again Nearly a year removed from the opening of Matanuska Creamery in Wasilla, Valley dairy farmers have gone from dumping their unsold milk to hustling to keep up with demand reports the Fairbanks Daily News Miner Ridge Will Not Run For Senate The Philadelphia Bulletin reports former Homeland Security secretary [...]
The Oldest Living Scout The Detroit Free Press reports a Detroit resident Edward Whitehead is the oldest living Scouter in the nation at 101 years old. He turns 102 on May 9th Australian Navy Intercepts Another Boat The eighth boatload of asylum seekers to arrive in Australian waters this year was intercepted near Ashmore Reef, [...]
The TV made me do it A 31-year-old Albuquerque woman is jailed after a fight breaks out while a group is watching cage fighting on TV. The Albuquerque Journal Reports a city police officer responding to the disturbance call in the 300 block of Charleston NW on Thursday reported that, upon arriving, he heard yelling [...]
Planned solar plant among world’s largest A solar power plant that is to be built about seven miles north of Springer will be the second-largest solar-collecting array in the world, its creators believe. The Raton Range says the 210-acre “Cimarron I Solar Project” will provide renewable energy to Tri-State’s 44 member electric cooperatives in New [...]
Bird populations decline The San Francisco Chronicle reports that North America’s bird populations have declined significantly in the past 40 years as bulldozers have flattened forests, rolled over grasslands and filled wetlands, according to a study released Thursday that is the first comprehensive analysis of the state of the nation’s birds. A boyhood dream comes [...]
To drunk to do it A story in the Anchorage Daily News reported Alaska Defense attorney Scott Sterling argued that his client Frank Adams was to drunk to be charged with the murder of Stacey Johnston. The attorney said because of the drunken state of the defendant at the time he should be found guilty [...]
New Mexico Gets Super Computer Gazing at the green and yellow flashing lights of the third fastest supercomputer in the world, Lorie Liebrock, a computer science professor at New Mexico Tech, explained its coolness factor in an article for the Santa Fe New Mexican The Clean Water Restoration Act needed to restore longstanding protections Earthjustice [...]
Body count climbs to 13 in Albuquerque body dump Thirteen and counting. A crime scene investigator noticed some human hair as authorities continued to excavate a patch of the Southwest Mesa on Friday morning and this led to the discovery of yet another skeleton. It seems that every day or so another skeleton is found [...]
