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Law license of former Twin Peaks attorney temporarily suspended Attorney Casie L. Gotro, of Houston, who was honored in June by the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for her representation of a biker charged in the deadly May 2015 Twin Peaks shootout hasn’t been eligible to practice law in the state since Sept, 1, the State Bar of Texas confirmed Tuesday. Gotro’s dues, which were due on June 1, have not been paid, a State Bar spokesperson said Tuesday. She was given a three-month grace period in which to pay and was sent several notices, but the State Bar did...

MDI, producer of standard and custom corrugated plastic packing containers, is adding 160 jobs across its four locations, with the majority to be filled at its new Hibbing facility. One hundred jobs became available in the Northland this summer in the area of material handlers, maintenance and quality technicians, production workers and hand assemblers. Many positions are contract hires with potential to become full-time jobs. Consistent with the mission of the organization, MDI has a particular interest in creating employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. The hiring spree is being driven by an order increase placed by the United States...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sycuan Casino announced today that the organization is now hiring for over 700 new positions for its hotel and resort expansion. The variety of new positions are in the food and beverage, hotel and casino divisions. Sycuan is kicking off its hiring efforts with a job fair this Thursday, September 20 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the East County Career Center. Sycuan will host a series of job fairs through the remainder of this year and into 2019. Many of the job fairs hosted by Sycuan will have hiring managers on-site...

California: People Quietly Disappearing Shhhh.... if you’re quiet, we might just get out of this place alive.

Last weekend, Incheon, South Korea’s second-biggest port city, held its first-ever gay pride parade. Things took a violent turn, however, as more than 1,000 anti-gay protesters, including Christian groups, verbally and physically pushed back the 300 parade participants. The event was expected to last 20 minutes, but took hours due to the conflict. Since 2003, homosexuality has no longer been classified as “harmful and obscene” in South Korea, but discrimination against the community remains widespread. While the country’s national human rights commission act states that individuals cannot be discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation, members of the...

HANFORD — Faraday Future officials welcomed newly hired employees Tuesday at its Hanford factory and have announced even more hiring efforts. The announcement comes just in time, as the first pre-production FF 91 luxury electronic vehicle was recently built at the Hanford facility, which is located in Hanford's Industrial Park. Vince Nguyen, director of human resources and recruiting - product and technology at Faraday Future, said the company has hired around 100 employees to work in the Hanford facility and ultimately hopes to employ around 1,000 people by mid-2019. Currently, Nguyen said a majority of the new hires have original...

A senior Scotland Yard office is facing losing his job after using the term 'whiter than white' in a briefing with colleagues being faultless in their inquiries.

ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) - Are you in the market for a new job? Employment opportunities are waiting for you at the newly-expanded Wayne Farms manufacturing facility in Enterprise. Eddie Fortner, Enterprise Operations Manager for Wayne Farms, says "We've actually invited community leaders from around the Jack/Enterprise area...mayors, chamber of commerce, community leaders to talk about our expansion and what's going on." Fortner says the company needs to hire hundreds of new employees. "We anticipate adding from 350 to 400 hourly jobs. We have about 35 salary positions that we're hiring for so we have a lot of opportunities that's fixing...

Members of the incoming Container Services, Inc. met with their new colleagues, the Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce last night at the Crane Room Grille. CSI recently purchased the 45,700-square-foot facility located at 209 Green Ridge Road in the in the RIDC Industrial Park in Neshannock Township. The business manufactures containers designed to meet the specific requirements for a variety of areas in the packaging industry. Company President Brent Diggers and Director of Operations Tom Leihy were among the roughly 20 people in attendance. They were joined by local officials who included Lawrence County Commissioner Bob Del Signore, Neshannock Supervisor...

BIDDEFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- For 49 years Fiber Material Incorporated has been machining high-tech parts for the Department of Defense, every branch of the military and NASA. The aerospace manufacturing company is located in Biddeford and they gave NEWS CENTER Maine's Clay Gordon a tour of some of the facilities. “Our components go to solid rocket motors, which then go into defense missiles, interceptor missiles and ICBMs," said Dan Godbout, the Director of Sales, Contracts and Program Management at FMI. "We also sell heat shields to NASA and other primes that are building vehicles for NASA that are...

At Evans Tool & Die, a family-owned toolmaking and stamping business in Conyers, Georgia, employees have always come first. “Generosity is one of our core values,” explained Dee Barnes, President and CEO of Evans Tool & Die. “We’ve always shared profit with our employees, and we have always given bonuses each year. With tax reform we will be able to increase those bonuses to our employees. Evans Tool & Die has always tried to reward hardworking employees. Despite much of the tool industry going elsewhere in recent decades due to an uncompetitive economic climate in the United States, Barnes has...

With $40 million in new investments announced Thursday, Chicago-based e-commerce logistics company ShipBob is eyeing an expansion — starting with a new fulfillment warehouse and a push to hire 100 people in the next year. The startup aims to help small to midsize e-commerce companies ship their products at speeds similar to Amazon. Shipping logistics tends to be the hardest part of launching an e-commerce brand, said Dhruv Saxena, ShipBob’s co-founder and CEO. “The expectation from a customer standpoint is that they will get all of their e-commerce orders delivered to them like Amazon Prime: same-day, next-day,” he said. “These...

A Maltese professor, who offered "dirt" on Hillary Clinton to a Republican aide during the 2016 US Presidential Election, is "missing and maybe dead," according to New York court documents.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala - Altoona, Iowa. It's a town of about 18,000 people. It may not seem likely, but it has something in common with Huntsville...Facebook. Facebook announced plans to build a data center in Huntsville on Thursday. And in 2014 the social media giant built a data center in the small, midwestern town. WHNT News 19 took a look at Altoona and is taking action to find out what Huntsville's future could look like. "Facebook is building a new $750 million data center right here in Alabama," Governor Kay Ivey said at a press conference Thursday. Alabama officials made a...

Multiple investigations into the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting all point to senior Democrats colluding with Russia to frame Donald Trump and discredit his presidency.

RALEIGH — A Winston-Salem insurance company is planning an expansion that will bring 626 jobs to the city. National General Management Corp. will receive a $5.6 million job development grant from the state if it meets hiring goals, according to the N.C. Department of Commerce. That grant not only brings more than 600 jobs to Winston-Salem, but it also keeps the company’s operations there, as National General was contemplating moving all of its jobs out of the state. The company currently has 1,245 employees based in Forsyth County. The N.C. Economic Investment Committee approved the state grant at a special...

ShayoNano USA, Inc., an innovative developer of advanced materials, plans to construct a new manufacturing facility in Chester County, South Carolina. The company’s $14.7 million capital investment is projected to bring approximately 40 new jobs to the community. The company is a manufacturer and provider of nanomaterials, such as synthesizing additives that improve the profitability and performance of a variety of products. The company harnesses its unique, patented technology to support a range of uses, including paints and coatings, fire retardants, nanocomposites and more. Located at 564 Ecology Lane in Chester, ShayoNano’s new, 23,000-square-foot manufacturing facility is projected to start...

Amazon opened an 85-thousand-square-foot "Tech Hub" in University City Thursday that the tech giant says will create 300 new jobs in the areas of software development, machine learning, cloud computing and digital entertainment. San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Assemblyman Todd Gloria attended the grand opening event. Amazon's San Diego expansion is the brainchild of Nate Wiger, a UC San Diego graduate who proposed the idea in 2016 while working at Amazon's Irvine office. The expansion will serve as one of Amazon's 17 Tech Hubs in the US and Canada , not including the company's Seattle headquarters. On Wednesday, Amazon...

Sykes Enterprises Inc., which plans to offer jobs to as many as 500 employees by the end of the year, has announced that it will be conducting a hiring event on Wednesday at the company's Strickland Bridge Road facility. "We're inviting interested candidates to come out and apply, interview and even potentially receive an offer all in the same day," a news release said. The Wednesday hiring event will be held all day at 921 Strickland Bridge Road, Sykes said in the release. The positions will "provide technical support to customers on behalf of our clients." "Great candidates include folks...

Working in the funeral home business is one of those types of jobs that people don’t think about very much… until they have to. When a loved one passes, they must then confront a reality that exists for every human being. Fortunately, there are people like Joshua Meyer and Kenton LeBlanc ready to help guide a family through an emotionally difficult time. “In a way, it's a calling,” Meyer said. “I kind of liken it to someone becoming a minister. It’s the type of job not a lot of people consider, but for some of us it becomes a passion...