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    Abby Ellin

    Abby Ellin

    Abby Ellin

  • Flight Attendant Claims Magic Fired Her For Being 7 Minutes Late

    Is being seven minutes late grounds for dismissal? Apparently so,  says Latina Thomas,  Magic Johnson’s former personal flight attendant, who claims to have been fired last month for being a tiny bit tardy. Thomas, 45,  is suing Magic Johnson Entertainment and Clay Lacy Aviation, her...

  • Fashion Models in $22M Class-Action

    It pays to be beautiful, but it may not pay as much as it should. That’s the contention in a $20 million class-action suit against some of New York’s top modeling and advertising agencies, including Ford Models, Next Management and Wilhelmina. The suit, filed on...

  • Canadian Town Sells $10 Plots of Land

    Got an extra ten bucks?  If so, you, too, could be the owner of a  sparkling new home in Reston, Manitoba, a rural prairie town in Southern Manitoba bordering Saskatchewan on the west and North Dakota on the south. In an effort to jump on...

  • Southwest Sued Over Hot Tea Burns

    Southwest Airlines is in hot water for allegedly burning a passenger with a cup of scalding tea. According to a lawsuit filed in Davidson County Circuit Court in Nashville, Tenn., on December 28, 2011, Angelica Keller, of Smyrna, Tenn., suffered second-degree burns during a trip...

  • Mom Angry That Male Vice Principal Spanked Her Daughter

    Rather than spend two days in in-school suspension for allegedly letting another student copy her classwork, Taylor Santos, a well-regarded student and athlete at Springtown High School, near Fort Worth, Texas, chose to get paddled. As her mother, Anna Jorgensen, told ABC News affiliate WFAA-TV in...

  • $60M for a High School Football Stadium?

    To say that football is a big deal in Texas is a bit like saying it snows in Alaska.  “There’s a long tradition in both film and novels of how important high school football is in Texas,” said Tom Palaima, a professor at the University...

  • Bloomingdale's Security Boss Arrested, Accused of Passing Counterfeit Money

     Do as I say, not as I do. That could be the mantra of Bloomingdale’s security boss, Alice Butler, who was arrested after allegedly passing off fraudulent bills at the chain’s flagship store in New York. Part of Butler’s job was to teach employees how...

  • 7 Ways to Cut Your Car Insurance

    Let’s say you live in Michigan, where the typical household shells out a whopping 8 percent of its annual income on car insurance. Or maybe you live someplace where the rates are cheaper–Colorado, say, or Massachusetts–but you’d like to save some cash. Is there any way to...