For eighteen years, Timothy Quinn was employed at the Clairton Coke Works. He was familiar with the noise, the smell, and the cadence of a shift. He left for work in August of last year and never returned home. He and his coworker Steven Menefee perished in an explosion at the plant, which US Steel claims was brought on by pressure building inside a gas valve and causing it to malfunction. Investigators later discovered that the valve was produced in 1973. US Steel makes more than $15 billion a year. Timothy’s sister, Trisha Quinn, learned of her brother’s passing the…
Author: Sierra Foster
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.
There is something quietly devastating about the situation facing students at Queen Mary University of London’s Malta campus. These are not individuals who went rogue or selected an obscure organization in a remote part of the globe. They were pursuing the same GMC-accredited degree, studied the same curriculum as their counterparts in the UK, and enrolled in an international branch of a reputable British university. The understanding — reasonable, documented, and historically consistent — was that they would be treated the same when it came time to enter the NHS Foundation Programme. That comprehension is no longer valid. Few could…
The narrative seems almost too satisfying to be questioned. A celebrity chef walks into a courtroom, holds up a burger, and proves to the world that a fast food giant has been feeding people something unfit for human consumption. McDonald’s loses. Literally, justice is served. The internet explodes. And millions of people share the news as though it’s the most important thing they’ve read all year. The Jamie Oliver McDonald’s lawsuit, as it has been described in countless Facebook posts, viral graphics, and breathless shares since at least 2011, does not exist. No court case. No verdict. No decision. Over…
The way this whole thing transpired has an almost cinematic quality. A $400 million countersuit, a PR smear campaign, and a lawsuit involving allegations of sexual harassment surround a domestic violence film that was adapted from one of the most popular romance novels of the previous ten years. This would likely be deemed excessive by someone in a studio meeting if a screenwriter pitched it. But in reality, this is what took place. Actress Blake Lively filed the It Ends With Us lawsuit against director and co-star Justin Baldoni in December 2024. It started out as a workplace grievance and…
The fact that one of the biggest names in the NFT boom, a company that once created digital collectibles worth thousands of dollars from NBA highlight clips, settled a privacy lawsuit for five dollars per person is subtly telling. Not five hundred. Five, not fifty. The Dapper VPPA Settlement, formally tied to the case Ohebshalom v. Dapper Labs, Inc., centers on allegations that Dapper Labs shared the personal information of its users with third parties without their consent. The Video Privacy Protection Act, a federal law that predates the majority of the internet, serves as the legal foundation. It was…
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…
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…