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Wrong-way truck driver failed language proficiency test: MSHP

1 week 3 days ago
A Somali truck driver failed an English proficiency test after getting pulled over for driving the wrong way on Highway 61 in Lincoln County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said he could not identify road signs required to hold a commercial driver’s license.
Chad Mira

FEMA shutdown drags on amid stalemate over reforms to immigration enforcement

1 week 3 days ago
WASHINGTON — The nation’s main agency for handling disaster response and recovery is shuttered for the third time in recent months and its workers are on the verge of missing paychecks, as members of Congress and the White House remain divided in a separate dispute over immigration enforcement. Lawmakers are raising questions about how the […]
Jennifer Shutt

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Let Fly The Claudes Of War, With Casey Newton

1 week 3 days ago
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online […]
Mike Masnick

BJC Healthcare reveals employee pay changes

1 week 3 days ago
BJC Healthcare announced a new compensation structure that it says would maintain or increase pay for 72% of its employees, but the health system did not immediately clarify impacts on the remaining 28% of its workforce.
Joey Schneider

Man Sentenced to 87 Months in Prison for $300,000 Kohl's Cash Scam

1 week 3 days ago
ST. LOUIS –U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey on Thursday sentenced a man who stole nearly $300,000 worth of online merchandise from Kohl’s to 87 months in prison. Judge Autrey also ordered Marshall Lampkin, 36, to pay the retailer $301,713 and forfeit the stolen items that have been recovered. According to evidence and testimony at Lampkin’s trial in August, Lampkin carried out his scheme by first using Kohl’s Cash to purchase merchandise in a Kohl’s store,