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Chinese drywall complaints mount ahead of investigation reports

TAMPA – The inside of Michele Carrone’s Riverview town home has been torn down to the studs. Crews are busy removing any remnants of toxic drywall imported from China. Carrone is one of dozens in the River Walk community who … Continue reading

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Discrimination complaints jump 500 percent in Frederick Co.

The Frederick County Human Relations Department saw a 500 percent increase in discrimination complaints, strengthened its ordinance language and trained county employees on equal opportunity employment in fiscal 2009. The department, along with the Human Relations Commission, issued its annual … Continue reading

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Sears Holdings Settles FTC Behavioral Tracking Complaint

Sears Holdings Corp. has settled with the Federal Trade Commission on a complaint that it persuaded consumers to agree to the collection of data about their online activities without giving them a full warning about the scope of the collection … Continue reading

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Reports: Police accused of using torture technique

- Britain’s Independent Police Complaints Commission says an investigation is under way into brutality allegations against six police officers. But the commission is refusing to confirm British media reports that officers are alleged to have used a variation of the … Continue reading

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Report finds racial profiling complaints highest since 2002

A new state report on traffic stops showed the highest number of complaints about targeting of minorities since record-keeping began in 2002. Twenty-two complaints of racial profiling were received last year by the Nebraska Crime Commission, which issued its latest … Continue reading

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Obama Urged to Fill Product-Safety Post as Complaints Mount

The head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission urged President Barack Obama Wednesday to appoint a new CPSC chairman to deal with mounting complaints about a consumer-product safety law that has left retailers stuck with more than $1 billion of … Continue reading

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With small-town politics, more ethics complaints

The state Ethics Commission each year investigates thousands of complaints alleging misdeeds by city and town officials. Over the last five years, 577 of those complaints came from South Shore towns. But instead of large municipalities like Quincy or Weymouth … Continue reading

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Ethics complaints against Masto, Schneider thrown out

CARSON CITY — Complaints that charged Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and state Sen. Mike Schneider with using their influence to restore the license of a homeopathic doctor were tossed out today by the Nevada Ethics Commission. Ethics Commission members … Continue reading

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Iranian lawyers file complaints against Israel

The move by Iran’s Judiciary comes after an international conference, which wrapped up in Morocco on Sunday, called for Israeli civil and military officials to be sued for “war crimes and crimes against humanity” “Israel is fully responsible for the … Continue reading

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