Messick's relatives claim McGowan made "slanderous statements" about her former manager.

A legal battle is brewing between Starbucks and a California family claiming they were served bloody cups of Frappuccino. Amanda Vice says in a lawsuit against the coffee chain that Frappuccinos she ordered for herself and her toddler daughter from a San Bernardino Starbucks in February 2016 came with a ghastly ingredient not typically found on the menu. “She was licking the whipped cream where it had been sitting on top,” Vice told CBS Los Angeles, describing the moment she noticed the drink was corpuscle-enhanced.

A well-known immigrant rights activist who was on the cusp of being deported this week has filed a lawsuit that allows him to stay in the U.S., for now. Ravi Ragbir, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group New Sanctuary Coalition, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in January during a routine check-in with the agency. Despite his release, Ragbir was still scheduled for deportation for Saturday, Feb. 10.

The remains of at least six people have been recovered from plant pots in the grounds of a property connected to a suspected Canadian serial killer. Police in Toronto made the grisly discovery at the home of Bruce McArthur, who was charged in January with the murder of five men near Toronto’s Gay Village. Investigators had previously uncovered the remains of three people in flowers pots on a property where the 66-year-old stored his tools.

Washington (AFP) - First it was Dexter the Peacock. Now it's Pebbles the Hamster.