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July 10, 2008 - Here's a creative way to protest staff cuts at your daily paper: Sue 'em. McClatchy Corp.'s Raleigh News & Observer, the target of just such a lawsuit, reports:

July 10, 2008 - Gulf Stream Coach -- the politically connected company handed a $500 million federal contract to manufacture trailers for Hurricane Katrina victims -- knew its product was contaminated with dangerous levels of cancer-causing formaldehyde in early 2006.

July 9, 2008 - One of the many downsides to high gas prices is that it unleashes a flurry of conservative punditry claiming that "the market" will solve our energy problems, including catastrophic climate change.

July 8, 2008 - We recently reported on a lawsuit charging three Virginia companies with involvement in torturing detainees in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

July 8, 2008 - Coca-Cola has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit charging officials at the Atlanta-based company with misrepresenting or omitting information from public statements, causing artificial inflation of stock prices. The plaintiffs in the class-action suit were led by two union pension funds: the Carpenters Health & Welfare Fund of Philadelphia, which held about $80 million in company stock at the time of the filing, and and Local 144 Nursing Home Pension Fund, now called 1199 SEIU Greater New York Pension Fund.

July 8, 2008 - The Times Picayune reported that of the flooded areas in Louisiana's St. Bernard and Orleans parishes, 62 percent of homes have been rebuilt or are under renovation, according to data from a University of New Orleans study released this week.

July 8, 2008 - Tennessee is seeing a surge in ex-offenders seeking a restoration of their voting rights. Tennessee's WBIR reported this year the state could double the number of felons who may see their voting rights restored.