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RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Officials in Riverside County, Calif., have agreed to pay a family $700,000 as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit that was filed after Child Protective Services (CPS) seized a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl. “CPS ...

  America’s most popular weed killer, Monsanto’s Roundup, gave four Nebraska farmers cancer, a new federal lawsuit alleges. The suit accuses the agribusiness giant of putting people in danger by refusing to label its products as a carcinogen. Farmers Larry ...

A judge will hear a case this month to determine if a Florida couple can grow vegetables in their own yard. Hermine Ricketts and Tom Carroll are the couple who had to rip out a garden they had grown for ...

A Minnesota city is asking a court for a warrant to enter a rental home in order to check to see if the place is clean. If the city wins the case, then inspectors apparently would be able to enter ...

A homeschool family has been sued by neighbors for letting the children play outside, and the mom is speaking out. Homeschool mom Kelly Counts and her husband are facing a lawsuit over the “loud and obnoxious noise and commotion caused ...

Buying hydroponic gardening supplies and putting tea leaves in the trash were probable causes for a search warrant and a SWAT-team raid on a family’s home, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge John Lungstrum found that sheriff’s deputies ...

Officials in one Missouri city can jail citizens simply because they have not paid fines for such trivial matters as having dead vegetables, hosting a barbecue and even walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk. The actions by politicians ...

The Environmental Protection Agency violated federal law by fining a Wyoming farmer $37,500 a day for building a stock pond on his own property, a new lawsuit alleges. Andy Johnson now faces more than $16 million in fines even though ...

Chemicals from fracking contaminated a family’s water well so much that they sparked a flash explosion that severely injured at least four people, a lawsuit filed in Texas alleges. “The explosion caused severe and extensive burns to Cody Murray, leaving ...

Two young homeschooled children were taken from their mother because of a social worker’s improper reading of a blood test – and then kept in state custody for weeks even though the state’s own doctors said the children were perfectly ...