There’s something almost fitting about Mike Rowe, the man who spent years crawling through sewers and wrestling livestock on camera, finding himself in what might be his messiest job yet — fighting his own network in court. This week, Rowe, 64, who is best known for hosting Dirty Jobs, and his production company, Lab Rat, filed a lawsuit against Discovery Talent Services. The main accusation is fairly simple: in 2020, Discovery made an agreement with him to pay him $40,000 per episode to narrate Deadliest Catch. However, Rowe’s legal team claims that the company secretly produced dozens of spinoff episodes…
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Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
The offices at Langley don’t often make headlines over paperwork. However, a decision made by a federal appeals court on Thursday is drawing attention to something that appears to be procedural on the surface but actually raises some very unsettling concerns about how the government handles its own citizens. A lower-court injunction preventing the Trump administration from terminating 19 career intelligence officers was upheld by a 2-1 panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. These CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence personnel were temporarily assigned to DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) initiatives.…
The fact that a B-side is at the center of one of the largest legal disputes in contemporary music history is almost poetic. A B-side recorded in Jamaica in 1989 by a production team called Steely & Clevie, it was neither a chart-topper nor a headline release. Over 150 artists, including Bad Bunny, Karol G, Drake, Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber, Luis Fonsi, and Pitbull, are being sued in a massive federal lawsuit over that song, “Fish Market.” About 18,000 recordings are involved in the case, and the potential damages could actually change an entire genre. On Thursday, July 2, U.S.…
One of the stranger things about Wednesday night’s U.S. win over Bosnia-Herzegovina wasn’t the scoreline. It was the silence that followed on social media — a stunned, disbelieving quiet before it gave way to something much louder. After what appeared to most spectators to be an inadvertent step on an opponent’s ankle during a scramble for a loose ball, Folarin Balogun, the team’s top attacker in this tournament and the man who had already put one in the net that evening, was leaving the field with a red card. The United States prevailed 2-0. They made progress. Due to FIFA’s…
There’s a lawsuit making its way through federal court right now about chicken nuggets shaped like the numbers six and seven. And before anyone dismisses that as a joke, it’s worth taking a closer look because, beneath the ridiculousness, this case raises issues that food retailers and brands deal with on a regular basis: who gets credit for an idea, and when does borrowing become copying? John Soules Foods was named as the defendant in the complaint that Perdue Foods filed on June 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Perdue claims that Soules Foods…
There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from walking through an orchard and hearing fruit fall to the ground. Not picked, not packed, not sold — just dropping. When discussing what transpired with his nectarine harvest in 2025, Cesar Mora expressed precisely that emotion. Every step through his Reedley orchard, he said, was marked by the sound of fruit hitting the dirt. Thump, thump. It’s the kind of information that sticks in your memory. Mora made the decision this summer that he would not allow it to occur once more. The third-generation Central Valley farmer opened his orchard gates…
When Nicola McKay started taking Depo-Provera in the early 2000s, she did what most people do with a doctor-recommended contraceptive — she assumed it was safe. The nurse from Portmahomak, a small coastal village in the Scottish Highlands, received the injection every three months without much second thought. It was convenient. It worked. She had a career to focus on and a life to live. Then, in February of last year, she had five seizures in a single day. The scan that followed delivered news she wasn’t prepared for: three non-cancerous brain tumours, known as meningiomas, sitting inside her skull.…
There’s something almost counterintuitive about a discrimination lawsuit targeting a minority-owned business. 99 Ranch Market, a chain with fresh lychee, live fish tanks near the entrance, and brands that many immigrant families grew up with, established its reputation by catering to Asian-American communities across the nation. But federal regulators are now saying that what happened behind the scenes, in manager offices and on scheduling spreadsheets, tells a very different story. Tawa Supermarket Inc., the parent company of 99 Ranch Market in Buena Park, was sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which claimed that the chain routinely discriminated against…
The beginning of this seems almost unremarkable. After paying for groceries, a customer receives a receipt, which they may stuff into a bag or discard. It turned out that the easily misplaced, thermal-printed slip of paper contained more information than was permitted by law. A $7.4 million class action lawsuit against one of the most reputable grocery chains in America was sparked by that minor detail. The case focuses on a remarkably narrow time frame: March 5–July 19, 2019. Some Trader Joe’s locations printed the first six and last four digits of a customer’s credit or debit card number on…
It has an almost ridiculous quality. You leave a Trader Joe’s with a canvas bag full of organic crackers and two-buck chuck, and you quickly tuck your receipt into your pocket. The majority of people act in this way. However, that crumpled receipt may have been discreetly printing more information than it should have for customers who visited specific Trader Joe’s locations between March and July of 2019. Years later, this has resulted in a $7.4 million legal settlement. The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), a federal law that restricts the number of card numbers that can appear…