Elizabeth, NJ
Police & Fire
Woman Hit By Car In Summit Gets $1.4M Settlement Woman Hit By Car In Summit Gets $1.4M Settlement
Woman Hit By Car In Summit Gets $1.4M Settlement A woman who suffered serious injuries when she was hit by a car in Summit three years ago has settled for $1.4 million, the woman's lawyer said Thursday.  A driver trying to retrieve a ticket for a parking lot at DeForest and Woodland avenues July 12, 2016, accidentally stepped on the gas, crashing through the gate, according to the plaintiff’s attorney, Kathyrn Schwartzstein of Morristown. The vehicle hit the woman, a 59-year-old Union County resident,  as she was crossing the lot. She suffered injuries that required extensive rehabilitation as well as left shoulder replacement.…

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by Paul Milo
New City, NY
News
Sex-Harassment Case Involving Ex-Principal Settled By Nanuet School Sex-Harassment Case Involving Ex-Principal Settled By Nanuet School
Sex-Harassment Case Involving Ex-Principal Settled By Nanuet School A teacher who accused longtime Nanuet High School Principal Vincent Carella of rape and sexual harassment has reportedly reached a settlement with the district and will drop her million dollar lawsuit. The teacher, who currently no longer has an assignment in the district, will collect her $109,000 annual salary, as well as union-mandated raises through June 2022, according to a lohud report. She will also receive health benefits and thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees. As part of the settlement, the teacher agreed to formally resign from the district on the day her contract expires in …

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by Zak Failla
Pleasantville, NY
News
Passenger In Car During Fatal Shooting Of Pace Football Player DJ Henry Gets $75K Settlement Passenger In Car During Fatal Shooting Of Pace Football Player DJ Henry Gets $75K Settlement
Passenger In Car During Fatal Shooting Of Pace Football Player DJ Henry Gets $75K Settlement A former Pace University teammate of Danroy “DJ” Henry, who was shot and killed by a Pleasantville police officer has reached a settlement with the former officer. Former Pleasantville police officer Aaron Hess, who was off-duty in Pleasantville, called to report a disturbance outside Finnegan’s on Oct. 17, 2010, where members of the Pace football team were celebrating after their homecoming game. Hess remained at the scene, and when Henry was instructed to move his vehicle out of a fire zone, the former police officer alleged that it had struck him, he landed on the hood of the car and he …

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by Zak Failla
DV Plus - Westchester, NY
Politics
Metro-North Secures Silence Of Rail Engineer In Deadly Westchester Crash With Secret Settlement Metro-North Secures Silence Of Rail Engineer In Deadly Westchester Crash With Secret Settlement
Metro-North Secures Silence Of Rail Engineer In Deadly Westchester Crash With Secret Settlement This is the first in a series of stories on the deadliest crash in Metro-North history. Metro-North quietly settled a legal claim made by the now-retired locomotive engineer who operated the train that collided into a Mercedes SUV at the Commerce street railroad crossing in Valhalla four years ago. The deadliest crash in Metro-North history killed the driver and five commuters from Westchester and Fairfield counties. Fifteen train passengers were injured. As another anniversary passed marking the deadliest commuter railroad crash in Metro-North history, sadly there are few new safety improv…

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by Jon Craig
Trumbull-Monroe, CT
News
Redding Agrees To Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit Redding Agrees To Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit
Redding Agrees To Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit The town of Redding has agreed to pay a settlement to the family of a Poughkeepsie native who committed suicide next to his Fairfield County home two years ago. Members of the Redding Police Department were dispatched to the home of Peter Valenti, 32, on April 11, 2016, after he sent multiple text messages to friends seeking police help. Upon arrival, the officers found him hanging from the rafters in a shed next to his home. According to a CT Post report, the town and family have reached a settlement agreement, though the terms of the settlement will not be disclosed, “but it is substantia…

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by Zak Failla
North Salem, NY
News
Sprint Must Pay Record $330M Settlement To New York Sprint Must Pay Record $330M Settlement To New York
Sprint Must Pay Record $330M Settlement To New York Sprint has agreed to pay a record $330 million settlement to end a long-running tax dispute with New York, for “flagrantly breaking the law,” the state attorney general announced on Friday. The lawsuit alleged that for nearly a decade, Sprint “knowingly failed to collect and remit more than $100 million in state and local sales taxes owed on its flat-rate wireless calling plans sold to New Yorkers.” According to AG Barbara Underwood, the $330 million settlement is the largest-ever recovery resulting from an action filed under the New York False Claims Act. It is also the largest recovery by…

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by Zak Failla
Mount Pleasant, NY
Business
State Announces Record $174M Settlement With Spectrum: Free HBO Or Showtime, Too State Announces Record $174M Settlement With Spectrum: Free HBO Or Showtime, Too
State Announces Record $174M Settlement With Spectrum: Free HBO Or Showtime, Too "The Wire," "Game of Thrones," "Billions," and "Ray Donovan" may be coming to your television, free of charge. Charter Communications and Spectrum Management has agreed to a record-setting $174 million consumer fraud settlement with New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood for defrauding Internet subscribers. The settlement comes following a lawsuit that was filed last year alleging that Charter Communications and its predecessor, Time Warner Cable, “denied customers the reliable and fast internet service it had promised.” Underwood said that the record $174.2 million consumer fra…

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by Zak Failla
Poughkeepsie, NY
Lifestyle
Sobo & Sobo Shares Patricia Murphy's Story Sobo & Sobo Shares Patricia Murphy's Story
Sobo & Sobo Shares Patricia Murphy's Story “She just looked at me and she said, 'Mommy, that’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.'” -- Patricia Murphy On her daughter’s fifth birthday, Patricia Murphy received the kind of phone call for which no one is ever prepared. She was on her way to work when her mother called to give her the news that her fiancé, the father of her daughter, had passed away. Patricia’s fiancé Garry fell 30 feet onto a concrete floor while working on the roof of a local business. The fact that his employer had not provided the proper safety equipment among other acts of negligence meant that this accident came…

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Mahopac, NY
Police & Fire
Westchester Worker Gets $2M After Suit For Discrimination Westchester Worker Gets $2M After Suit For Discrimination
Westchester Worker Gets $2M After Suit For Discrimination Just weeks after a Yonkers sugar refinery worker won a $13.4 million lawsuit against American Sugar Refining - the maker of Domino’s Sugar - a second employee has won a lawsuit claiming workplace discrimination. A jury in the Southern District of New York awarded a $2.35 million settlement to Claude Lewis, a former employee at the company’s Yonkers factory for nearly three decades. The win comes seven weeks after Rosanna Mayo-Coleman received her judgment against American Sugar Refining after her boss allegedly sexually harassed her at work. in 2011, Lewis came under the supervision of Meha…

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by Zak Failla
Shelton, CT
Police & Fire
Suspect Nabbed For 2016 Murder In Fairfield County Drug Deal Gone Bad Suspect Nabbed For 2016 Murder In Fairfield County Drug Deal Gone Bad
Suspect Nabbed For 2016 Murder In Fairfield County Drug Deal Gone Bad Bridgeport police arrested a juvenile for his role in the 2016 murder of teenager Shane Slinsky, according to Av Harris, the Bridgeport police spokesman. The unidentified Stamford juvenile was charged with felony murder, murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, larceny and carrying a pistol without a permit, Harris said. He is being held on $1 million bond. “An additional arrest is expected shortly,” Harris added. Slinsky was shot twice in the head on Aug. 27, 2016, on Wood Terrace in Bridgeport, during a drug deal gone bad, police said. The juvenile is the second person to be arrested in c…

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by Kathy Reakes
Stamford, CT
Schools
Stamford Officials Settle $3.2M School Sex Assault Case Stamford Officials Settle $3.2M School Sex Assault Case
Stamford Officials Settle $3.2M School Sex Assault Case Five men who claim they were sexually assaulted by a school gym teacher in the 70s and 80s settled a lawsuit with the city of Stamford, according to Libby Carlson, special assistant to Mayor David Martin. The city agreed to settle with the five men for $3.25 million on Thursday. The settlement was approved by Judge Barbara Bellis. The lawsuits claim that each of the men was under the age of 10 when they were sexually assaulted by Robert Martinez at the former Rogers School. The suit also claimed the Stamford Board of Education failed to them as children because of Martinez's conduct and did…

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by Kathy Reakes