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The Latest: South Korea reports highest jump in 3 months By The Associated PressApril 14, 2021 GMT SEOUL, South Korea __ South Korea has recorded its highest daily jump in new COVID-19 infections in about three months, as officials urge the public to maintain vigilance. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency said Wednesday it’s confirmed 731 new cases over the past 24 hours. They brought the country’s total to 111,419 with 1,782 deaths. The spike comes amid criticism of a slow vacc...

Restaurant owner who was in jail says rights were violated April 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) — A western Michigan restaurant owner who spent four nights in jail for violating coronavirus-related orders is firing back weeks later with a demand that $15,000 in fines be refunded and contempt findings dropped. An attorney for Marlena Pavlos-Hackney said her rights were violated during a contentious court hearing on March 19. Court filings show that she doesnt consider the c...

By The Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has issued an executive order banning the development or use of vaccine passports in Montana. Vaccine passports are documents that could be used to verify coronavirus immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine. The move by Gianforte on Tuesday comes as vaccine passports have drawn criticism as a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices. Gi...

UHRICHSVILLE Uhrichsville Councilman Robert Baker is recovering at a Canton hospital after having a heart attack during Thursday nights council meeting. Mayor Mark Haney said Police Chief Vince Beal, Council President Robert Cottrell, and councilmen Ron Miller and Michael Huff put the unconscious councilman on the floor while Haney notified firefighters. Three city firefighter/paramedics who were down the hall from the council chamber in the fire station responded immediately, Haney said...

On Episode 2 of The River Rundown, guests Christian Juzang ’20 and Robert Baker ’20 of Harvard hoops talk about playing professionally in Vietnam and Slovakia, the abrupt end to their senior season last March, and the miraculous March Madness run to the Final Four by Christians brother, Johnny. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. The River Rundown is a podcast about Harvard Athletics amid the pandemic — focusing on alumni and undergraduates alike, a...

Marlenas Bistro & Pizzeria, March 18, 2021. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Attorney Robert Baker, now representing Holland restaurant owner Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, says he’s pulling together her case. But it’s complicated, he said, by the first person who gave her legal advice, a Texas man named Rick Martin who doesn’t have a law degree. Baker said his job right now is like putting “toothpaste back into the tube,” as Martin didn’t file any legal papers for Pavlos...

86-year-old woman killed in mobile home fire on Barfield Road in Sumter Mar 17, 2021 9:13 AM EDT FILE SUMTER COUNTY, S.C. (WOLO) – The Sumter County Coroner’s Office has identified the victim of a fatal fire at a mobile home on Tuesday. Coroner Robert Baker says Shirley Baker, 86, died at her home on Barfield Road. According to investigators, the fire happened after 7 p.m. Authorities say an autopsy will be performed today at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. The cause...

Vegas parties, celebrities and boozy lunches: How legal titan Tom Girardi seduced the State Bar Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton © (Al Seib) Tom Girardi was able to stay in the state bars good graces for decades while attorneys accused of similar wrongdoing were reprimanded, suspended or disbarred. (Al Seib) The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues. The vaunte...

Print The warning signs about Tom Girardi flashed year after year, allegations that he skimmed settlement money, inflated costs, abandoned clients and cheated colleagues. The vaunted Los Angeles trial lawyer, a regular on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and his firm were sued more than a hundred times between the 1980s and last year, with at least half of those cases asserting misconduct in his law practice. Yet through it all, Girardi’s record with the State Bar of California, the go...

The Toronto Argonauts have won the CFL off-season when it comes to making headline-grabbing moves, particularly when it comes to landing talent once highly sought after in the National Football League. It’s a playbook that’s been used over the years to varying degrees of success in the CFL, and it comes with rather obvious pluses and minuses. On the up side, a player once highly coveted in the NFL should have all the tools to make an impact in the CFL, given the level of scrutiny players fa...