DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has given final approval to a $65 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit involving thousands of residents of a southern Delaware community affected by groundwater contamination from a local poultry processing facility.
Monday’s ruling by a state judge coincided with a federal magistrate signing off Monday on a consent decree between state environmental regulators and Mountaire Farms that was submitted more than two years ago.
The approvals bring an end to lengthy and convoluted litigation in state and federal courts stemming from a wastewater treatment system failure at Mountaire’s Millsboro facility in 2017.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker-actor Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard are brothers, former child stars and fellow Hollywood veterans. They'll now share their unusual story in book-length form. The Howards have a deal with William Morrow for "The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family." It's scheduled to come out Oct. 12. According to William Morrow, a HarperCollins imprint, the book arose in part out of public curiosity over […]
