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A wealthy Queensland family were portrayed as “selfish”, “suspicious” and “disgraceful” by a 60 Minutes report suggesting they caused the 2011 floods that killed 12 people, a court has heard. Toowoomba’s Wagner brothers are suing the Nine Network and journalist Nick Cater for defamation over the report which aired in May 2015 on the wall of water, described as an “inland tsunami”, that fatally swept through Grantham. Denis, John, Neill and Joe Wagner say the report by journalist Michael Usher incorrectly insinuated the collapse of a wall of a Lockyer Valley quarry they owned caused the “man-made catastrophe”, in which a two-year-old girl died. A four-person jury has watched the 15-minute report, titled The Missing Hour, after the Brisbane supreme court trial began on Tuesday. The report does not expressly blame them for the deaths but the family believes it led people to believe they caused the disaster, sought to cover … [Read more...] about 60 Minutes defamation case: report suggested Wagner family to blame for fatal flood, court hears

USA Gymnastics allegedly kept Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles in the dark about its investigation into sexual abuse by Larry Nassar for years after becoming aware of her concerns about the sports doctor.   Biles was one of the three gymnasts who were flagged to USA Gymnastics (USAG) officials as being uncomfortable with Nassar in June of 2015 - sparking a secret five-week internal investigation into the national team's longtime physician.    A new report published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday claims that the investigator leading that probe never spoke to Biles, and when the concerns were passed to the FBI in late July 2015, her name was not mentioned.  The report, based interviews with people with knowledge of USAG's response to Nassar allegations and a documents submitted to Congress, suggests that then-chief executive Steve Penny specifically left the star gymnast out of the probe and ignored the possibility that she may have been abused by … [Read more...] about Simone Biles demands answers in response to report USA Gymnastics kept her in the dark about its Larry Nassar abuse investigation for YEARS after she expressed concerns and sparked a secret probe into his conduct

The Oakland Raiders never really recovered from the decision to trade Jon Gruden to Tampa Bay 16 years ago. There was a Super Bowl trip the following season when Oakland lost to Gruden’s Buccaneers and another play-off appearance in 2016 under Jack Del Rio that garnered little optimism because quarterback Derek Carr was injured. But there has been mostly a run of losing seasons under nine coaches as only the Cleveland Browns had lost more games during Gruden’s 16-year absence than the Raiders. Owner Mark Davis hopes that will all change now that he has finally lured Gruden back for a second stint as the team’s coach. A person with knowledge of the team’s plans said the Raiders are planning a news conference Tuesday to announce that Gruden is leaving the broadcast booth to come back to coaching. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the team has made no formal announcement. The Raiders fired Del Rio following a disappointing six-win season and … [Read more...] about Jon Gruden reportedly agrees to 10-year, $100m deal to coach Oakland Raiders

The New England Patriots dismissed as “flat-out inaccurate” a report suggesting a rift involving owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The three released a joint statement Friday hours after an ESPN report, citing undisclosed sources, detailed an array of tension. The story highlighted purported disputes concerning Brady’s personal body coach, Alex Guerrero, in player-medical affairs. Also mentioned is a supposed difference between Kraft and Belichick over the decision to trade backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. The story implied Brady has taken issue with a lack of praise from Belichick this season. “For the past 18 years, the three of us have enjoyed a very good and productive working relationship,” the statement read. “In recent days, there have been multiple media reports that have speculated theories that are unsubstantiated, highly exaggerated or flat out inaccurate. The three of us share a common goal. We look … [Read more...] about Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft dismiss report of feud as fake news

The board of TSB has been accused of a lack of "common sense" in the run-up to IT failures that left up to 1.9 million customers unable to bank online, some for several weeks, in April 2018.An independent report into the incident by law firm Slaughter and May blamed both TSB and IT provider Sabis.Customers were moved on to a new system, but the report said it had not been tested properly before going live.It found that the tests only took place offline and not in a live environment.It said that TSB accepted that had tests been run across both systems, it might have been able to identify the issues which affected customers before they happened. MPs demand action over rise in online bank crashes TSB suffers £105m loss after computer chaos TSB investigated over IT meltdown "We have concluded that the new platform was not ready to support TSB's full customer base and Sabis was not ready to operate the new platform," the report said."While the TSB board asked a number of pertinent … [Read more...] about TSB lacked common sense before IT meltdown, says report