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Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, a Sacramento-area nonprofit that mainly serves adult students, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 4, 2026, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California. It filed while disputing a California State Auditor finding that it received more than $180 million in K-12 funding it was…
A 2025 cyberattack on legacy Cerner systems owned by Oracle Health compromised the personal information of nearly 20 million people, according to information released by the Texas Attorney General. About 3 million of them are Texans. The report, issued October 2, 2026, was covered by Bloomberg Law on October 5. There is no settlement, claim…
Zenflow, Inc. announced on October 5, 2026, that it closed an oversubscribed $52 million Series D financing round led by Cook Medical. Zenflow also announced an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with Cook Medical for the Zenflow Spring® System, an FDA-approved device for men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly called enlarged prostate. This is a…
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is the most prominent Senate opponent of the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, the bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. President Donald Trump has pushed publicly for the bill and, on October 3, 2026, criticized Cotton by name and posted what appeared to be the senator’s personal phone number….
A 48-year-old Chicago woman, Shavon Gayden, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 7-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed while walking on a South Side sidewalk on Saturday, October 3, 2026. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the girl as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon. Prosecutors named her in court as…
On Monday, October 5, 2026, Miami County Common Pleas Judge Jeannine Pratt sentenced Caleb Flynn, 40, a former Ohio music pastor and 2013 American Idol contestant, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the aggravated murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. A jury had convicted him on all nine counts six days…
A Burnaby, British Columbia tenant has sued former B.C. Lions player Isaiah Guzylak-Messam and her landlord, alleging that repeated loud stomping from the apartment above caused a ceiling light fixture to fall and seriously injure her. The lawsuit was filed on September 29, 2026, in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. This is not a…
El Dorado Furniture Corporation has agreed to pay $1.3 million to a class of Black, white and other non-Hispanic job applicants to resolve a federal hiring discrimination investigation by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC announced the agreement on October 5, 2026. This is an EEOC pre-litigation conciliation agreement, not a court-supervised…
On October 2, 2026, Mt. Hawley Insurance Company filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against The Hanover American Insurance Company, The Hanover Insurance Company and Schmid Construction, Inc. Mt. Hawley alleges that Hanover American rejected a $900,000 settlement offer in an underlying wrongful death case without…