Month: July 2015

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating liquor company Diageo Plc, which makes Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker whiskey, on suspicions that the company’s been shipping excess inventory to distributors in an effort to boost sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. By sending distributors more cases of alcohol than they’d requested, Diageo Plc would […]

A month after a balcony collapse in Berkeley, CA, killed six college students and injured seven more people, the city council has overridden industry concerns and mandated strict new rules for building standards and inspections. All existing balconies, decks and stairways in the city must be inspected over the next six months, with subsequent inspections […]

An urgent care unit in Scranton, Pennsylvania was raided by federal agents who suspected the clinic of improperly prescribing drugs used to help opiate addicts overcome their addiction. WNEP 16 reports that on July 9th, agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Federal Inspector General’s (FIG) office raided Advanced Urgent Care, searching for […]

Nearly 57% of Americans will admit that they judge their coworkers based on how they maintain their cubicle or office space. So it probably comes as no surprise that coworkers also look askance at you if you’re not maintaining your body, as well. According to Bloomberg business, many companies are encouraging their employees to take […]

At the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A and M University, researchers calculated that in 2011, traffic delays cost the U.S. economy $121 billion in lost productivity — in addition to 2.9 billion gallons of wasted gasoline. And in major cities around the world, severe traffic congestion paralyzes cities for hours each day, causes fatal […]

It pays not to throw things away, sometimes. When a Myrtle Beach man heard that an unclaimed $1 million lottery ticket had been sold at a Carolina Forest Scotchman, he rummaged through his stack of old South Carolina Education Lottery tickets, and after checking their website, discovered one of his tickets that’d been lying around […]