A McDonald’s franchise in Canada has apologized after serving a pregnant woman a cup of cleaning fluid instead of coffee, a mistake the company said has occurred in the past with other customers. The woman, Sarah Douglas, 31, who is eight months pregnant with her third child, ordered a medium latte on Sunday at a…
0 Black woman says utility company sent her racial slur as temporary password SEATTLE – An African-American woman says a utility provider in Washington state emailed her a racial slur to use as the temporary password to her online account. Erica Conway believes the insult was deliberate and wants Puget Sound Energy to get to the bottom…
(Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg News) by Erin B. Logan July 27 at 5:34 PM Email the author What Barbara Carroll says was meant to be a quick trip turned into a nearly three-hour ordeal after a Wells Fargo branch accused the 78-year-old black woman of forgery. Carroll, who holds a doctorate in criminal justice and worked as…
New Jersey officials said on Monday they were investigating why a utility company shut off power last week at the Newark home of a woman in hospice care who then died after her electric-powered oxygen tank stopped operating. Family members of the woman, Linda Daniels, said she gasped for air for hours on Thursday until…
An Upper West Side philanthropist who was nearly killed by a shopping cart that was tossed by teens from an overpass won a $45.2 million jury award Friday — and said she plans to donate a portion of the money to a local youth center. Victim Marion Hedges, 53, shook with emotion when the verdict…
Alex Iovine and her girlfriend were sitting in the back seat of an Uber on Saturday, riding between two New York City restaurants, when they shared a quick kiss. The next thing they knew, they said, the driver kicked them out of the car. Iovine told BuzzFeed News she and her girlfriend, Emma Pichl, got…