The lawsuit filed in Cobb County Superior Court is the latest legal action involving Rogers and one of his former employees, Mye Brindle, who served as Rogers’ housekeeper and then personal assistant from May 2003 until June 2012. Rogers has admitted in court filings to having “infrequent consensual sexual encounters” with Brindle. However, he denies engaging in sexual harassment and claims the woman initially sued as an attempt to extort money.

In his suit filed May 30, Rogers accuses attorneys David Cohen, Hylton Dupree and John Butters of scheming with Brindle to illegally obtain evidence, file false police reports and force Rogers to meet their demands. The attorneys deny the allegations.

“Mr. Rogers’ baseless allegations are an act of desperation,” Dupree told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We will respond in court at the appropriate time.”

Earlier this year, Rogers filed complaints with the State Bar of Georgia against Cohen and Butters, according to documents obtained by The AJC. But the Bar found no violation of the state’s ethics rules and the grievances were dismissed.

In June 2012, Brindle hired the three attorneys to represent her. According to the lawsuit, it was the three attorneys that…

The boy obliged, the lawsuit states, noting there are text messages to help bolster that claim and several others.

According to the 44-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Pugh met the boy in May 2013 through a leadership forum he ran at the Frederick Douglass Academy for Young Men, where the teen attended school. Here, according to court records, is how the relationship started:

Pugh took an immediate interest in the boy and started grooming him by helping him find a job and offering to take him to buy clothes for his job interview. When the then-17-year-old told Pugh he needed his mother’s permission to go clothes-shopping with him, Pugh handed him his cell phone to call his mother, who objected.

On another occasion, Pugh and the student left the school around 2 p.m. and went on a shopping spree in Madison Heights in Pugh’s black Lincoln Town Car, stopping at Men’s Wearhouse, K&G and Metro PCS.

Pugh sent text messages to the teen, and unbeknownst to him, his texts instead had been going to the boy’s mother. She believed the text messages were from a girl who had a crush on her son. Pugh ended up getting the teen his own phone.

The two also…

The terms of Clark County’s settlement agreement with Largent, who sued the county alleging unlawful hiring practices, were released on Tuesday. The lawsuit called for damages of at least $300,000.

The settlement was reached after an all-day mediation session with retired Clark County Superior Court Judge John Skimas.

Since Friday, Largent has been on paid administrative leave. Her last official day of work is June 15. She is not expected to return to work before then and is currently on vacation.

“Everybody realized it’s difficult for something like this to happen and then have everyone go about business like it didn’t happen,” said Greg Ferguson, Largent’s attorney.

Environmental services staffers were notified of Largent’s leave of absence on Friday. The county wouldn’t acknowledge Monday that the settlement had been completed.

In a joint statement released Tuesday, the county and Ferguson said the Washington Counties Risk Pool, the county’s insurer at the time of the complaint, had authorized the county to settle.

The county thanked Largent, 62, for her years of service.

The terms of the settlement are neutral about the case itself. The county does not admit wrongdoing, a common settlement provision. The payout amount — $250,000…

The city and the factory began warring late last year, when residents began to complain of a spicy odor that caused headaches, heartburn and watering eyes.

The trial was scheduled to begin this November, and the public nuisance declaration would have eventually authorized city officials to enter the factory and make the changes themselves.

But city officials said Huy Fong Foods Inc. had finally demonstrated a specific written commitment to solving the smell issues. Mayor Mark Breceda, who toured the factory earlier this week, said the conflict should not have been so drawn out.

“We’re almost sorry that this has gone on so long,” Breceda said. “We’re looking forward to being partners for a very long time.”

The council voted unanimously to table the resolution and decided in closed session to drop the lawsuit.

Huy Fong Foods Chief Executive David Tran was not present at the meeting but thanked his supporters in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.

“From now on, I will be concentrating on making my hot sauces quality better and better, with the price being lower and lower,” Tran said.

It wasn’t immediately clear why the city has relaxed its position. Tran has promised before to fix the issues, in writing and in person at council meetings through an attorney, but…

BRIDGEPORT — It was all there on video — a city man is shot twice with a stun gun after he runs from police in Beardsley Park and is then stomped by three officers as he lies on the ground.

The stark video of the cops kicking the prone man made national news and triggered protests from local activists and civil rights groups when it popped up last year on YouTube. It also launched an FBI investigation into the officers’ conduct.

On Tuesday, after receiving a Freedom of Information request from Hearst Connecticut Media, city officials said they agreed to settle the man’s civil rights lawsuit against the Police Department, paying him $198,000. The federal lawsuit originally called for a $10 million payout.

“Considering costs associated with proceeding to trial, a resolution was reached that is fair and reasonable for all parties in this case,” said Police Department Spokesman William Kaempffer.

On the video, recorded May 20, 2011, Orlando Lopez-Soto, 28, is seen running from the right side of the frame when there is the electric sound of a stun gun. Lopez-Soto falls face down in the grass and officers Joseph Lawlor and Elson Morales run up to him and begin kicking and stomping on him. The video was shot by an unnamed passerby.

Officer Clive Higgins then pulls up in his patrol car, gets out, and leaning on Morales for support, also begins kicking Lopez-Soto.

Lopez-Soto is serving a 5-year prison term after being found guilty of criminal possession of a firearm,…

, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Bed Handles Inc., of , are announcing the voluntary recall of about 113,000 adult portable bed handles.  When attached to an adult’s bed without the use of safety retention straps, the handle can shift out of place creating a dangerous gap between the bed handle and the side of the mattress. This poses a serious risk of entrapment, strangulation and death.

Three women died after becoming entrapped between the mattress and the bed handles. They include an elderly woman, age unknown, who died in an assisted living facility; a 41-year-old disabled woman who died in a adult family home; and an 81-year-old woman who died in a managed care facility.

The recall involves adult portable bed handles sold by Bed Handles Inc. from 1994 through 2007 that do not have safety retention straps to secure the bed handle to the bed frame to keep the bed handle from shifting out of place and creating a dangerous gap. Recalled models include the Original Bedside Assistant® (BA10W), the Travel Handles™ (BA11W) which is sold as a set of two bed handles, and the Adjustable Bedside Assistant® (AJ1).   

The L-shaped bed handles are made out of ¾ inch tubular steel, measure 20 inches wide, 16 to 20 inches tall and have 3 ft. poles that extend under the mattress. The Original Bedside Assistant® (BA10W) and the Travel Handles™ (BA11W) have a white handle with white poles…