Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Announcing an end to foodperks!, Giant Eagle is offering a new incentive to fuelperks! while fighting a lawsuit over the program.
Giant Eagle might be ending foodperks!, but it's also adding extra incentive to use its fuelperks! program. The company has announced the last day to earn foodperks! will be Feb. 13, but Giant Eagle is also rolling out a new 3-cent program that gives customers extra incentive to choose GetGo over other gas stations. The program started Feb. 4. "The new GetGo 3-cent program is simple," said Rob Borella, Senior Director of Corporate Communications. "Every time a customer scans his or her Giant Eagle Advantage Card while fueling at GetGo and isn’t redeeming fuelperks!, he or she will receive 3-cents off per gallon." Meanwhile, a company that helped Giant Eagle initiate its Fuelperks program is now suing the grocer, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Two men are suing Subway because they say the footlong sandwiches measure less than 12 inches.
If you're headed to Subway bring your appetite—and your ruler. That's if you pay as close attention to the size of your sandwich as two New Jersey men, who are suing the fast food chain because they say the advertised footlong sub is just shy of 12 inches. According to NBC 10, the lawsuit was filed last week. The plantiffs, John Farley of Evesham and Charles Noah Pendrack of Ocean City, said they measured 17 Subway foot-long sandwiches and all were not quite 12 inches. Read the full story on the Philadelphia Inquirer. Locally, there is a Subway sandwich shop in the Quaker Village Shopping Center. Does an inch matter? Tell us in the comments below. Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter Check out some of today's other top stories here.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Sheena Monnin, the beauty queen from Cranberry, also posts a new video explaining some of her actions—including why she called the Miss Universe organization “trashy.”
Sheena Monnin, the ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA from Cranberry, is continuing to fight back against the $5 million lawsuit Donald Trump filed against her last year after she claimed the Miss USA pageant was rigged. This time, she’s saying the arbitration judgment made against her in December has yet to be confirmed. “There was an arbitration judgment decision made on December 10th, 2012. The judgment was sent to the Southern District Court of New York to be affirmed,” she said in a statement to Patch. “The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) announced they had ‘won’ a $5 million judgment against me on December 18th. It is apparent that the MUO knew that the arbitration judgment had NOT been confirmed when they released the news to the public.” …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The beauty queen from Cranberry Township creates a support page on Facebook as she prepares to appeal the $5 million judgment against her.
Ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin is asking for the public’s help in battling a $5 million judgment made against her after she claimed the Miss USA competition was rigged. “This truth has cost me greatly,” she said in YouTube video released New Year’s Day. “I’m at a place where for me to continue to fight this injustice, I need your help. I am not financially able to continue to fight this on my own.” After reaching the maximum capacity 5,000 friends on her Facebook page, the beauty queen also has created the Sheena Monnin Support Page. As of Wednesday the site had close to 1,500 Facebook likes. A Cranberry resident, Monnin made national headlines in June after she resigned as Miss Pennsylvania USA just days after the televised Miss …
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin says a clause in the Miss Universe contract could prove her claim the contest is rigged.
Despite a $5 million legal victory against her, it appears Sheena Monnin won’t let her war of words with media mogul Donald Trump go down without a fight. The Ex-Miss Pennsylvania USA from Cranberry once again took to her Facebook page to express her dissatisfaction with the Miss Universe organization—and this time she said a clause in the organization’s own contract gives credibility to her claim the contest was rigged. “Since I had no idea that an arbitration hearing had taken place until receiving notification of the judgment made against me, I would like to release an initial response,” she said on her Facebook page Thursday. Monnin resigned as Miss Pennsylvania in June, just days after the televised Miss USA 2012 pageant took place. …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Cranberry resident and former Miss Pennsylvania USA contestant Sheena Monnin quit after alleging the pageant was rigged.
Miss Universe co-owner Donald Trump has made good on his threats to sue for “massive damages” against a former Miss Pennsylvania USA contestant from Cranberry who claimed the pageant was rigged. According to the New York Post, Trump won a $5 million legal decision against Sheena Monnin, who turned in her sash and crown just days after the Miss USA 2012 pageant aired in June. In statements made on her Facebook page, Monnin said the televised contest was fixed. A fellow contestant saw a list of the top five women in the pageant before judging began on the show, she claimed. She also called the organization fraudulent, lacking in morals and trashy. Trump immediately responded, branding Monnin, who did not place in the pageant’s semifinals, a…
Monday, December 10, 2012
William Peake's termination letter cited "lack of solid job knowledge and basic police skills." His lawsuit alleges his firing was due to racial discrimination.
A Sewickley man has filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania alleging that he was fired from his job as a state police trooper because of racial discrimination. William C. Peake, 29, of Walnut Street, also alleges in the civil suit filed in U.S. District Court on Dec. 4, that he was falsely accused of using “Ebonics” in his incident reports. According to the lawsuit, Peake graduated from the police academy in May 2009, and was one of four African-American graduates in the class of 75. Peake began an 18-month probationary period and was assigned to the Uniontown barracks, which is headquartered in Washington, PA, according to the suit. His probationary period was to expire on Nov. 3, 2010, and according to the suit, Peake …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Jack Hogan, 31, died when he fell from a ladder trying to escape from a pit filled with methane gas, according to the lawsuit.
The widow of a Sewickley Wastewater Treatment Plant worker who died on the job in 2010 is suing the borough and others claiming her husband would still be alive if proper work and safety procedures had been in place. Sarah Hogan of Baden filed two lawsuits July 26 in U.S. District Court and Allegheny County Court on behalf of her late husband, 31-year-old Jack Hogan III's estate, and their only daughter, who was 2 months at the time of her father's death and is now 2-years-old. The lawsuits name Sewickley Borough, plant superintendent Dennis Mike and Franklin Pounds, an employee with Meadville-based Pipeline Systems, Inc. The suits also names Pipeline and two other companies, KLH Engineers, Inc. of Carnegie and Goodea Construction Inc. of …
Friday, July 13, 2012
The Moon resident's lawsuit claims he was falsely arrested for selling drugs in Coraopolis.
A Sewickley Heights police dispatcher has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming he was falsely arrested and jailed by Coraopolis police on drug charges. Moon resident Jason Cercone, 29, names Coraopolis police, its Chief Alan DeRusso and Officer Albert Marxs; Moon police and its Detective Brian Buydasz; as well as Moon Township and Coraopolis Borough in the lawsuit filed on Thursday. Cercone alleges that police confused him with another man when they arrested him for selling drugs on April 10. The charges were withdrawn days after his arrest. In the suit, Cercone said he was approached by Chief DeRusso and Officer Marx in the parking lot of the Sewickley Heights police station, where he has worked as a dispatcher for six years. …
Sandra Bajsec will receive $37,000 as part of the settlement.
Leetsdale Council approved a settlement Thursday with a former borough clerk who filed a federal lawsuit claiming she was let go from her job for political reasons. Sandra Bajsec's Pittsburgh attorney, Christine T. Elzer of Samuel J. Cordes & Associates, said Bajsec will receive $37,000 as part of the settlement. She has also agreed never to apply for a borough job. Elzer said Bajsec has signed the agreement, though there is a revocation period that ends July 19. "She could revoke it, but she hasn't," Elzer said. Both sides, including Leetsdale’s insurance counsel, reached the tentative settlement agreement during a June 20 court-ordered mediation. Megan Ott, solicitor for Leetsdale borough, said she planned to wait until after the …
Shawn Vereen
8:59 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Pretty hilarious you are bashing the guy who lost his job because he was writing his reports yet you cannot spell either. Pretty hypocritical if you ask me. more ›