44 Oil Executives and Truck Drivers Were Just Arrested for a Multimillion-Dollar Scam: "Prosecutors said the trucks were equipped with "diverter valves" that gave fake readouts of how much oil each customer was being delivered" (news.yahoo.com)
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An undercover video taken at one of the nation's largest pork producers shows pigs being dragged across the floor, beaten with paddles, and sick to the point of immobility... "If the USDA is around, they could shut us down," says a worker. (washingtonpost.com)
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With 22 veterans taking their life every day, suicide has caused more American casualties than both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined (mercurynews.com)
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Wealthiest – not sickest – patients have edge in organ transplants. By registering with multiple transplant centers, wealthy patients are able to game the system to receive organs before sicker patients with less economic mobility. (newsroom.heart.org)
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April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce of Carbon County said the baby they've loved and raised for the last three months will be removed from their home and sent to heterosexual foster parents because a judge said the baby would be better-off. (kutv.com)
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US Supreme Court Sides With Cops In Deadly Police Chase: US Supreme Court grants immunity to police officer who used a rifle to kill a reckless motorist from an overpass (thenewspaper.com)
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Janna Basler has been placed on administrative leave and relieved of her duties as Director of Greek Life at Mizzou (mizzoulife.missouri.edu)
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Man files Civil Rights lawsuit after wrongful conviction: "During that nine years, prison officers would storm Johnson’s solitary cell and brutally beat him, breaking his bones and his spirit."(cbs46.com)
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On-duty Denver officer accused of having sex with drunk, mentally challenged woman suspended (kdvr.com)
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The city of Oakland is suing the Monsanto Company for financial assistance in mitigating the amount of dangerous pollutants present in storm drain runoff to San Francisco Bay. (sfbay.ca)
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Pizza in oven, no time to hear foreclosure pleas: "Garden City's mayor says he didn't allow residents who lost their homes to address the City Council on Monday because a pizza party was planned after the meeting." (detroitnews.com)
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