Drunk Driving While Texting Woman Slams into Construction Site, 2 Workers Hurt

A woman has been arrested Wednesday on suspicion of texting while driving and drunken driving in connection with a crash that injured two construction workers near Reno.

Witnesses at the scene said the woman, later identified as 20-year-old Heather Dyer, drove straight into a construction site on I-580S and crashed into one of the construction equipment in a controlled work zone causing injury to two construction workers. The impact of the collision caused a wheel to fall off a vehicle and hit one of the two injured workers. Dyer, it would seem, got herself in trouble apparently because she was too distracted by her texting or she was too impaired or under the influence or she was both too drunk and too distracted while she was driving that she failed to see where she was going until it was way much too late for her to stop.

DUI Lawyer Asks Nevada Supreme Court to Set Aside Attorney General’s Order on Prison Terms for DUI Offenders

The DUI defense attorney  for one of eight drunken driving offenders who were taken off house arrest and sent back to prison to serve a mandatory minimum two-year term asked the Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday to compel the director of prisons to release his 21-year-old client  and put her back on the house arrest program.

Aspiring Actress Dead in DUI-Related Car Crash

Sammi Kane Kraft, who was riding as a passenger in car driven by a 21-year-old woman suspected of being under the influence, died after succumbing to injuries suffered in an apparent DUI-caused accident on the Santa Monica Freeway early Wednesday.

The driver, Molly Adams of Santa Monica, reportedly rear-ended a tractor-trailer at about 1:30 a.m. near the Crenshaw Boulevard exit of the freeway with her Audi. After the impact of the initial crash, the Audi was then next struck by a Toyota Scion.

Ross Goodman Cleared By Las Vegas Police on Downtown Lot Deal

Daughter of Christine Von Sturm upon further investigation conclusively determined there was no improper movement taken by Goodman and Palazzo.

On Sep 14th 2004, there was an article from the Las Vegas Sun suggesting that there may have been something improper about a real estate transaction involving lawyers Ross Goodman and Louis Palazzo. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2004/sep/14/police-probe-ross-goodman-deal/

However, the article does not reflect the investigation conclusively determining there was no such improper action and that Von Sturm’s daughter has made an official statement withdrawing any allegations.

The property in question was a $1.4 million downtown lot comprised of two parcels, located at 511 and 515 Las Vegas Blvd. South, belonging to then-85 year old Christina Von Sturm.

District of Columbia Businesswoman Pleads Guilty to Illegal Campaign Contribution Charges

Mayor Vincent Gray’s donor Eugenia "Jeanne" Harris, 75, of Washington, DC, pleaded guilty to disguising the source of campaign contributions in federal and local elections and to hiding those activities from federal investigators. She admitted guilt to three charges: one count of conspiring to violate federal campaign finance law and to obstruct justice; one count of engaging in fraud and making false statements; and one count of conspiring to violate District of Columbia campaign finance law.

According to the FBI, Harris allegedly used her two businesses and the buinesses of someone they dubbed as her "Co-Conspirator #1" to buy campaign supplies and make donations in the names of family members and employees without reporting such expenses or activities to the DC Board of Elections and Ethics’ Office of Campaign Finance.

Fall of the Ohio Bridge Would-Be-Bombers

On April 30, five self-proclaimed anarchists who had been active with the Occupy Cleveland Movement were taken into custody by the FBI on suspicion of hatching a plot to bomb a four-lane highway bridge in Ohio. The eldest of them, 35-year-old Anthony Hayne, pleaded guilty in July and agreed to testify for the government. On Wednesday last week, three of his alleged co-conspirators, namely, 26-year-old Douglas Wright, 20-year-old Brandon Baxter and 20-year-old Connor Stevens - also entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge David Dowd. The four thus all admitted guilt to the charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted use of an explosive device to destroy property used in interstate commerce. The fifth suspect - 23-year-old Joshua Stafford, is still undergoing a psychiatric evaluation for competency to stand trial.

Three of “Agency Five” Publishers in Alleged E-Book Price-Fixing Conspiracy with Apple Settles Antitrust Lawsuits with Feds, States for $69 Million

In a press statement released Friday, Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto announced that Hachette Book Group, CBS Corp's Simon & Schuster and News Corp.'s HarperCollins Publishers - three of the so-called “Agency Five” publishers, the other two being Macmillan and Penguin - which have been named along with Apple Inc. in government antitrust lawsuits alleging illegal e-book price-fixing conspiracy have agreed to a multi-million dollar settlement with the Department of Justice and fifty-four states and territories including the District of Columbia.

Subject to court approval, the settlement would eliminate Apple’s “most favored nation” status with the publishers. According to Masto, the three big publishers also agreed to pay a total of more than $69 million to compensate consumers who purchased e-books during the period of April 1, 2010 through May 21, 2012. Payments will begin 30 days after court approval of the settlement becomes final.   Consumers in Nevada are collectively expected to receive up to $600,000 in total compensation. Eligible Nevada consumers will receive funds in the form of a credit or check from the settlement’s proceeds. Consumers who are eligible will receive direct notice by email.  Notice will also be published in print and web media.  A web site, created and maintained by a claims administer, will also be available providing detailed information on the settlement, Masto’s office announced. The three publishers likewise agreed to pay approximately $7.5 million to the states for fees and costs.

The antitrust lawsuits came about as a result of a probe conducted by DOJ on deals made by Apple with the “Agency Five” publishers two years ago when it launched the iPad and entered into direct competition with Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Apple used an “agency model" in its e-book pricing strategy whereby publishers set prices and Apple would take a 30 percent commission. In theory, that pricing model should stimulate competition and encourage varied pricing among the publishers. However, the prosecutors maintain that the parties may have conspired or worked in concert to set or fix the prices of e-books with Apple acting as the "hub" of coordination. They contend that by moving from a "wholesale model" to an "agency model," and through collaboration with Apple, the publishers allegedly ended retail price competition. The lawsuit accuses Apple of facilitating the transition with the clear understanding that it would result in higher prices. The complaint in fact quotes the late Steve Jobs as saying, "We'll go to [an] agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway."

Recently, the DOJ has been taking on large tech companies like Apple to force some policy changes. Most notably, in 2010  it was able to come to a deal with Apple, Google, Pixar, and others to terminate their "no employee poaching" agreements with each other under threat of a possible lawsuit.