Journalism

 Despite a neighbor’s persistent appeals, the Supreme Court of Nebraska upheld a variance for a family’s 4-H pigpen in an agricultural-transitional zoning district, holding that there was no alternative location on the peculiarly-shaped lot where the family could have built their pen without requiring a variance. 

 Neither party prevailed in an Ohio case where a nonconforming use issue turned on whether the parties could show that a building’s transformation—from a non-profit residential facility for elderly women to a non-profit residential treatment facility—constituted a change of use, or a continuation. 

In 2016, the City of Austin adopted a new ordinance amending its regulations on short-term rentals. 

Swedish national Hanna Bouveng sued Benjamin Wey and his company, New York Global Group, for sexual harassment. Wey made a name in the business world by connecting Chinese companies with advisers and investors in the U.S.

Benjamin Cayea took the stand Tuesday in his trial for the murder of Shannon Jones ’15, telling jurors that her death was an accident resulting from a sexual encounter gone wrong. 

 Here are four common ways hot, humid weather takes a toll on your health, plus how you can beat heat's effect on your system. 

 The International Olympic Committee requires that competitors have completed sex reassignment surgery, been legally recognized as their preferred gender, and undergone hormone therapy for at least two years to "minimize any gender-related advantages." 

With billions of dollars possibly at stake, a federal judge granted the company's request for a hearing to explore the IRS' use of Quinn Emanuel for a tax audit of the technology giant.

 I am all for healthy eating, and it is great that Bush has so many (apparent) supporters. But I feel compelled to ask: why does it matter? Why is one man's weight loss national news?

 With marijuana legal in some form or another in almost half of the United States, a few Am Law 200 firms have ventured into the largely uncharted waters of marijuana law.  

A proposal to change parking laws in Collegetown  —  which includes provisions to simplify zoning laws that are currently conflicting  —  will be considered by the Ithaca Planning and Economic Development Committee in early March, according to committee members.

In America, there is a rampant version of sexism directed towards women who, in one way or another, try to break the boundary between their prescribed academic interests and the evolving - and profitable - world of digital technology.