The nonprofit Still Protecting Our Newport filed suit against the city of Newport Beach on Aug. 8 alleging that the City Council violated the city charter last month when it opted to approve implementation of its required housing element without asking voters to weigh in. A lawsuit filed against Newport Beach last week alleges the City Council violated its charter …
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher. A special grand jury in Newport News found that Ebony Parker showed a reckless disregard for the lives of Richneck Elementary School …
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student in Virginia can press forward with her $40 million lawsuit against a school system over claims of negligence by school administrators, a judge ruled Friday. Zwerner’s attorneys countered that workers’ compensation doesn’t apply because a first-grade teacher would never anticipate getting shot: “It was not an actual …
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Lawyers sparred in a Virginia courtroom Friday over whether a teacher who was shot by her 6-year-old student should get only workers’ compensation for her serious injuries. One of her attorneys, Kevin Biniazan, asked the judge to allow Zwerner’s lawsuit to proceed to trial because “no first-grade teacher expects to be shot at work.” “The particular …
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