By: Ned Oliver | Style Weekly
A former Associated Press editor filed a lawsuit against the wire service in Richmond Circuit Court last week, alleging that she was unjustly fired for an error in a story edited by another staffer.
During Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign last October, the AP published a story alleging that Democratic candidate and now Gov. Terry McAuliffe had lied to federal officials who were investigating a death benefits scam. The story turned out to be false, and the AP retracted it a little more than an hour and a half after posting it.
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