New Look for TTLA E-Clips!! | | Another Abuse Suit Filed Against Jerry Sandusky | | Another accuser has come forward in a lawsuit against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, alleging he was sexually abused by Sandusky in 2005 while at the Second Mile summer camp. The plaintiff alleges Sandusky "touched him inappropriately" while the two were swimming. The suit names Sandusky, Penn State, Second Mile and others as defendants. Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/16/2012 | Read Article: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Texas Steps in to Help Cheerleaders in Lawsuit | | Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot has filed a petition seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed against a cheerleading team that paints Bible verses on banners at football games. The school banned the messages after a Wisconsin group sent the district a letter complaining about the banners. In a statement, Abbot said the state "will not allow atheist groups from outside of the state of Texas to come into the state to use menacing and misleading intimidation tactics to try to bully schools to bow down at the altar of secular beliefs." Corrie MacLaggan, Chicago Tribune 10/17/2012 | Read Article: Chicago Tribune | High School Girl Files Suit Against Basketball Coach | | A high school basketball player in Kansas City has filed a lawsuit against the Blue Springs School District, alleging she was harassed and racially discriminated against by her coaches. In the lawsuit, the plaintiff claims the coach "used the Internet to make a video that superimposed an orangutan’s face over the face of [the girl], who is black, before sharing the video with others at the school." The suit also accuses the coach of verbally abusing the plaintiff in front of the team and general mistreatment. Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star 10/18/2012 | Read Article: Kansas City Star | Lawsuit Claims Evangelical Church Hid Abuse Claims | | Three female plaintiffs claim an evangelical church group covered up allegations of sexual abuse against children, failed to report accusations to the police and discouraged its members from cooperating with law enforcement, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in Maryland state court against Sovereign Grace Ministries, a 30-year-old family of churches with more than 80 congregations. Most of its churches are in the U.S., but it also has planted congregations in other countries. The alleged abuse happened in Maryland and northern Virginia in the 1980s and 1990s. Associated Press, Bloomberg 10/18/2012 | Read Article: Bloomberg | Lapses at Big Drug Factories Add to Shortages and Danger | | Recent quality lapses at big drug companies show that contamination and shoddy practices extend well beyond the loosely regulated compounding pharmacies that have attracted attention because of their link to an outbreak of meningitis. In the last three years, six of the major manufacturers of sterile injectable drugs — which are subject to rigorous inspections by the federal government, as opposed to compounding pharmacies, which are generally overseen by the states — have been warned by the Food and Drug Administration about serious violations of manufacturing rules. Four of them have closed factories or significantly slowed production to fix the problems. Nearly a third of the industry’s manufacturing capacity is off line because of quality issues, according to a Congressional report. KATIE THOMAS, The New York Times 10/18/2012 | Read Article: The New York Times | Boy Scouts' 'Perversion Files' Go Public Today | | Decades of confidential sexual abuse allegations from within the Boy Scouts of America will spill into public view later today when more than 1,200 of the organization’s “perversion files” are released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court. The files will offer the public an unprecedented look at how suspected molestations were handled by one of the nation’s leading youth organizations from the early 1960s through 1985, a time when awareness of sexual abuse was evolving rapidly. Jason Felch and Kim Christensen, LA Times 10/18/2012 | Read Article: LA Times | Prison System to Blame for Man's Death, Widow Says | | A Tennessee woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Corrections, claiming prison officials are responsible for the death of her husband. According to the suit, in September 2010, an x-ray showed a suspicious mass on the man's lungs, but it was not until eight months later that the mass was biopsied. By then, cancer had spread to the man's brain. It took more than a year to get her husband transferred to an intensive care unit, the woman says, and he died shortly thereafter. Wire Report, Tennessean 10/18/2012 | Read Article: Tennessean | | |