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A South Carolina restaurant chain has paid more than $718,000 in back wages and penalties after federal investigators found that the company had failed to pay overtime to workers and allowed managers to dip into the tip pool. Tropical Grille paid $618,666 in back wages to 779 employees, plus a $100,000 fine for violations found at 13 restaurants across the northern part of the state, the U.S. Department of Labor announced this week. The restaurant, owned by Lazaro and Shadid Montoto, also violated child labor laws by allowing 14-year-olds to work late hours, the department said in a bulletin. The…

A New Haven man has been arrested and charged with illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits from the state while being employed as a campus police officer at the Yale University Police Department. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, in November 2025, Warren Palmer, of New Haven, reported suffering injuries to his ribs and abdomen while performing martial arts training at the police department’s training center. Palmer was subsequently placed on temporary total disability by his treating providers and later placed on temporary partial disability. He then collected wage replacement benefits from the state of Connecticut. During that period of benefits,…

A plane that crashed at a remote military site in western Alaska, killing all eight people on board, had been making its second runway approach in heavy fog when it lost contact, authorities said. The Cessna’s two pilots could not see the gravel airstrip and were flying solely by instruments when the plane crashed about midday on Aug. 20, Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, told a virtual news conference. Regulations required that they abort their first landing attempt because of the lack of visibility, he said, and the plane crashed on its second attempt, about…

Alabama’s attorney general said the state had opened an investigation into OpenAI after its models hacked technology company Hugging Face last month, raising concerns about how artificial intelligence firms control their powerful systems. Here are a few details: Last week, IPO-bound OpenAI said it would slow the pace of model development while overhauling its research and training systems after company officials were caught unawares when an AI agent being tested hacked Hugging Face. The agent went on a days-long hacking spree that OpenAI did not notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, Reuters reported.…

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a landmark social media case with multiple US states, according to a court filing Wednesday. The deal requires the company to put new guardrails on its platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, including restricting how much time youths can scroll and preventing them from switching off certain safety settings without parental consent. A judge needs to sign off on the agreement. In the filing, Meta denies the allegations against it. The states had alleged violations of state consumer protection and federal privacy laws — which carry fines…

In the opening scene of American writer Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future,” a heat wave combined with a breakdown of the electrical grid in India kills 20 million people. The devastation causes the world’s nations to unite to combat climate change. Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability. Warning about an “extreme of extremes” or the “Other Big One,” a play off the California reference…

Meta Platforms Inc. and state attorneys general have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of a blockbuster case accusing the company of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to addict teens, people familiar with the matter said. The trial, now in its second week in federal court in Oakland, California, poses an enormous risk for Meta as the top legal officers of 29 states are seeking both massive financial penalties on behalf of the public and mandatory changes to how the platforms operate. The people familiar with settlement talks asked not to be identified due to their sensitivity. A spokesperson for Meta…

SpaceX plans to build a new $100 billion launch site for its Starship rocket on the southern coast of Louisiana, enabling the company to expand operations of the behemoth vehicle that’s critical to its future. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and SpaceX executives announced the plans on Tuesday, authorizing the company to build a facility across roughly 125,000 acres (about 506 square kilometers) in a coastal area known as Pecan Island. The site will provide SpaceX with a third potential location for launching Starship, which SpaceX primarily builds and launches in South Texas. The company is also developing a second launch…

Freestone Insurance Group, a Shore Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired 360 Benefits, an employee benefits focused brokerage based in Chicago. 360 serves privately held, middle-market employers across a broad range of industries, delivering high-touch consultative benefits and risk management solutions. The transaction furthers Freestone’s Midwest presence and strengthens its existing employee benefits practice. Pragalz will continue to lead the business as President of 360 Benefits. Backed by Freestone and Shore resources, 360 will deepen core service offerings, invest in technology and talent, and expand access to Freestone’s broader risk management capabilities. Topics Mergers & Acquisitions Illinois Was this article…

Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cybersecurity incident had disrupted global operations, including some information systems used to process and ship customer orders. The medical device maker said it detected the incident on Aug. 25 and had activated incident-response procedures, working with third-party cybersecurity specialists to investigate and contain the threat. Shares of the Massachusetts-based company fell 3.5% premarket. Here are some details: The incident is the latest in a series of cyberattacks to hit the healthcare sector, with medical device makers Abbott Laboratories, Stryker and Medtronic, health insurer Clover Health, drugmaker Novo Nordisk and drug-delivery equipment supplier West…