President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

Bernard Calloway of New Orleans is suing the police department claiming he was harassed after witnessing the post-Katrina murder of Henry Glover.   Glover’s killing became one of the more sensational cases after the disaster due to the involveme...   read more

For the past six years, the state of Texas has been relying on a private security company to help guard the border with Mexico, while Governor Rick Perry has boasted having a “model border security” operation.   The Texas Department of Public Sa...   read more

Reinforcing the commonly held assumption that mobile homes are not safe in tornado country, a disproportionate number of tornado victims in both recent and previous disasters were occupants of the lightweight housing.   During the recent storms ...   read more

The good news about the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is that most of the remaining money owed by banks will soon be paid back. The bad news is that some of the loans are being paid with other taxpayer dollars.   Of the $414 billion in TA...   read more

While operating its $34 billion loan guarantee program, the Department of Energy has sometimes ignored its own rules for properly approving green energy financing. The program is supposed to support projects that deal with solar power, wind energy...   read more

The first woman to lead the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is headed to the private sector, leaving behind accusations that she enriched her company while running the agency. DARPA funds projects that explore the cutting edge of...   read more

The Trenton toilet paper shortage has been solved…at least temporarily.   They scoured three floors at police headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey, but no toilet paper was found. The situation was the same at City Hall, the source of the TP short...   read more

The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit trying to overturn President Barack Obama’s mandate that every American have health insurance went bankrupt while owing $4,500 in unpaid medical bills.   Mary Brown, the former owner of a small auto repair shop ...   read more

Despite getting into trouble in Africa, U.S. drug manufacturers are still going overseas, with increasing frequency, to test new medicines and take advantage of poor economic conditions…and lax regulation legal responsibility should anything go wr...   read more

Justice Patience Roggensack of the Wisconsin Supreme Court did the right thing by judicial standards in 2009 when she recused herself from participating in a case involving an attorney, Donald Schott of Quarles & Brady, who had previously represen...   read more

Oklahoma is facing a crisis of drug abuse among its residents. The problem is so widespread that the annual cost of drug addiction is estimated to be $7.2 billion, in a state whose entire government budget is $6.7 billion.   Of the $7.2 billion ...   read more

Tight on money but loaded with cases to prosecute, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas City has been using unpaid attorneys fresh out of law school to help out.   According to The Kansas City Star, U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips implemented the pr...   read more

Army Private Bradley Manning is facing the possibility of spending a long time in prison for embarrassing the U.S. government, while I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former right-hand man to Vice-President Dick Cheney, did no prison time even though ...   read more

Half a dozen lawsuits by organized labor health funds have been filed against pharmaceutical companies accusing the companies of inflating the price of prescription medication to be paid by the insurance plans.   The big pharmaceutical companies...   read more

In addition to drinking water contamination, earthquakes can now be added to the harmful consequences of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, according to the Ohio state government. In fracking, energy companies use pow...   read more

The 2008 crash of the real estate bubble and the ensuing Great Recession have victimized not only homeowners, but their houses of worship as well, as banks foreclose on churches in record numbers. As AllGov previously reported, foreclosures agains...   read more