A fourth asbestos lawsuit was filed against Cayuga County earlier this month, the latest in a string of complaints involving the improper removal of asbestos from the county Board of Elections building last year.
Environmentalists sued the U.S. Maritime Administration late last month in a U.S. District Court in Sacramento over what has long been considered an environmental time bomb ticking away in the calm waters of Suisun Bay.
A bill passed in October that was supposed to ban all products containing asbestos in the country has taken on a new, watered-down meaning, according to activists of the original legislation.
On Oct. 30, a Sacramento man arrested two years earlier on suspicion of driving while intoxicated testified that he was wrongfully brutalized by Sacramento police.