The Kroger Co. has agreed to pay West Virginia $68 million to settle claims that it fueled the opioid epidemic through lax oversight of its pill sales, bringing the state’s years-long litigation over the opioid crisis to a close. The deal, announced Thursday by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, comes a month before the…

OKLAHOMA CITY—The Oklahoma Court of Criminals on Thursday rejected a death row inmate’s claim that his father was the actual killer of a University of Oklahoma (OU) dance student in 1996. The court’s decision paves the way for Anthony Sanchez, 44, to be executed by lethal injection on Sept. 21. Attorneys for Sanchez said in…

LONDON—Mercedes-Benz faces more than 300,000 claims at London’s High Court from the owners of diesel vehicles that were allegedly equipped with “defeat devices” to cheat emissions tests. The German carmaker is said to have misled customers about certain diesel vehicles’ compliance with nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions standards. Mercedes-Benz denies that any defeat devices, which can…

ST. LOUIS—The attorney for a Missouri man facing lethal injection next week said Tuesday that he will ask the state Supreme Court to postpone the execution by three or four months to allow more time to investigate his innocence claim. Leonard Taylor, 58, faces execution Feb. 7 for the deaths of his girlfriend and her…

FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday, seeking a declaration that the company’s holdings of digital assets belong to customers. The lawsuit is the latest legal effort to lay claim to the dwindling assets of FTX, which is already feuding…

Prince Jason leads a group of people to search for the legendary Golden Fleece. In the course of the treasure hunt, Jason must defeat a host of fearsome opponents, including the seven-headed serpent, fighting skeletons, the cruel female-headed monster bird, and the invincible bronze god. …

Wounded and on the run, notorious gunman Quirt Evans gallops onto a farm owned by Quaker Thomas Worth and his family and collapses. When Quirt urgently insists upon sending a telegram, Thomas and his daughter Penelope drive him into town in their wagon. After wiring a claim to the land recorder’s office, Quirt kisses Penny…

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it is rolling out more privacy and security measures to help people in Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia. What Happened Meta said in a blog post that in the last 48 hours, it has taken down a network of about 40 fake accounts, groups and pages across…

ZURICH—Swiss prosecutors are pursuing around 42.4 million Swiss francs ($45.5 million) in compensation from Credit Suisse in a money-laundering trial due to begin on Feb. 7, the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) said on Monday. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) indicted the bank in December 2020 after an investigation into the activities of…

A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn of inflating the number of people who watched video ads so the networking platform could overcharge hundreds of thousands of advertisers. In a decision on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen said that while some LinkedIn statements may have been misleading, the plaintiffs failed…