Auto show attendance surpasses 808K?visitors
DETROIT (AP) — The North American International Auto Show has announced more than 808,000 people attended the two-week event in Detroit.
Event organizers are reporting attendance this year beat last year's tally by almost 5,500 visitors. Nearly 103,000 people attended the final day of the auto show on Sunday, Jan. 25.
The show was open to the public for nine days, from Jan. 17 to 25.
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Ginsberg says she would overturn campaign spending decision
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says if there is one decision she could overturn from the past 10 years, it would be the 2010 Citizens United case that allowed virtually unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns.
Speaking to students at Georgetown University Law Center, Ginsburg said Wednesday that the nation’s political system “is being polluted by money.”
Ginsburg says the situation is even worse because it affects state and local judges who run for election in 39 states.
The high court is currently considering a Florida case that tests whether states can prohibit judicial candidates from making personal appeals for campaign donations.
The 81-year-old Ginsburg has served on the court since 1993.
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Wrongly jailed man files lawsuit against NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — A man who spent nearly 22 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of killing his mother, sister and a friend has sued New York City.
Antonio Yarbough and co-defendant Sharrif Wilson were cleared by DNA evidence and released last year. Wilson died in January.
The New York Times reports that Yarbough filed the lawsuit this week in Brooklyn federal court. The suit doesn’t ask for a specific amount.
The lawsuit says the then-18-year-old Yarbough came home in 1992 to find his mom, his 12-year-old sister and his sister’s friend “tied up, stabbed and garroted with electrical cords.”
The lawsuit says police coerced Wilson into a videotaped confession and had Yarbough sign his name to a written statement.
The city’s Law Department said it will review the lawsuit.
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DA:?May be illegal for mayor to give money to workers
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The district attorney says it may have been illegal for Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto to give money to city employees as part of his appearance on the CBS show “Undercover Boss.”
Peduto pledged to give $155,000 to four needy city employees during his appearance on the show last month.
Peduto has said the money will come from private donors, though at least one agency — VisitPittsburgh — gets some of its money from taxpayers.
But Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala tells KDKA-TV — the local CBS affiliate — that if any of the money came from tax dollars, the gifts could be illegal.
He says the salaries of public employees are negotiated and the mayor cannot just give them a bonus.
The mayor insists the gifts are legal, but Zappala says the state Ethics Commission is also investigating.
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