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Authorities are searching for a woman who is considered the leader of a theft ring involved in a series of vehicles that were stolen from the victims of the tornado that struck Mayfield and Graves County on December 10, 2021.
Runstudio/Getty Images(MAYFIELD, Ky.) Workers at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory where eight people were killed by tornadoes last weekend filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer late Wednesday night. The factory was destroyed when tornadoes tore through nine states, leaving 89 people dead. The lawsuit, filed in the Graves Circuit Court in Kentucky by Elijah Johnson and 109 other "similarly situated employees," alleges that the candle factory required them to continue working, even with the threat of an expected dangerous tornado. One employee claimed she was threatened with disciplinary action if she went home early on the night tornadoes were expected. The candle factory allegedly threatened to fire any employees that left because of the expected tornado, just hours before it destroyed the factory, the lawsuit claims. The lawsuit claims the factory showed "flagrant indifference to the rights of Plaintiff Johnson and to the other similarly sit
(MAYFIELD, Ky.) Workers at the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory where eight people were killed by tornadoes last weekend filed a class-action lawsui