| Dicky Grigg: 24 scholarships awarded by TTLA - Want to be part of it? | As we wrap up the fundraising for the 2014 TTLA Scholarship Program, we hope you will consider making a contribution. In April, 24 worthy applicants were selected to receive a one-time $1000 scholarship. If you would like to help these students achieve their educational goals, please join other TTLA members and send a contribution payable to: TTLA Scholarship Fund, ATTN: Mona Fults, P.O. Box 788, Austin, TX 78767. Please click on the headline to learn more about the program.
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| WARNING: Bogus Phone Calls, Emails on Jury Service May Lead to Fraud | In various parts of the US, citizens are being targeted by phone calls and emails, threatening them with prosecution for failing to comply with jury service in federal or state courts. In the calls and emails, recipients are pressured to provide confidential data, potentially leading to identity theft and fraud. These calls and emails, which threaten recipients with fines and jail time if they do not comply, are fraudulent and are not connected with the U.S. courts. Click on the headline to learn more.
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| Rising Rates of Hospice Discharge in U.S. Raise Questions |  | At hundreds of U.S. hospices, more than one in three patients are dropping the service before dying, new research shows, a sign of trouble in an industry supposed to care for patients until death. When that many patients are leaving a hospice alive, experts said, the agencies are likely to be either driving them away with inadequate care or enrolling patients who aren't really dying in order to pad their profits. Rresearchers found that at some hospices, and particularly at new, for-profit companies, the rate of patients leaving hospice care alive is double that level or more.
Peter Whoriskey and Dan Keating, The Washington Post 08/07/2014    | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Report Faults Chevron in Deadly Gas Well Fire | | The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection report faulted Chevron Inc. site managers in a report released Wednesday on a natural gas well fire in western Pennsylvania that killed one worker. The investigation found that a inexperienced worker "was not supervised closely" as he used a tool on the well bore in the days before the fire and had not been trained on the procedure "or any other well procedure."
Associated Press, The Washington Post 08/07/2014 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Ill. Village Agrees to Settle Pizzeria Lawsuit for $6.5M | | The village of Mount Prospect, Illinois has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle a lawsuit by a restaurant owner who has operated a pizzeria in the village for over 40 years. The plaintiff cited a federal civil racketeering law, more commonly used to bust organized crime, when he filed his lawsuit in 2008 accusing the village of trying to force him out of his downtown business to make way for a new development project. The lawsuit named the village and Oz Development LLC and alleged that they collaborated to try to push the plaintiff out, violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act.
Dan Hinkel, Chicago Tribune 08/06/2014 | | Read Article: Chicago Tribune |
| FDA Agent: Peanut Plant 'Not Fit' to Produce Food | | A Georgia peanut plant, Peanut Corp. of America, linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak shipped food to customers that lab tests confirmed was tainted, failed to clean production equipment of possible contaminants and didn't ensure a peanut roaster was hot enough to kill bacteria, a federal inspector testified Wednesday. The company's products were blamed for the deaths on nine Americans and for sickening hundreds nationwide. Now the company's former owner and two others are standing trial in a rare instance of corporate officers and workers being prosecuted in a food poisoning case.
RUSS BYNUM, AP, Yahoo News 08/07/2014 | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
| Family Files Suit Over LAPD Officer's Death | | The family of a Los Angeles police officer who was killed during a traffic accident has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. The officer was killed "when an out-of-control concrete truck barreled downhill on Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills and slammed head-on into [his] pick-up truck." The lawsuit names the driver of the truck, the company he worked for, and the two cities as defendants. The lawsuit contends that the cities are partly responsible for the officer's death for designing the road and failing to keep it safe. The lawsuit, filed by the officer's mother, seeks unspecified damages.
Joseph Serna, LA Times 08/06/2014 | | Read Article: LA Times |
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