Hiding knives from a member of Congress for fear of your own life. Having cellphones thrown at you. Being cursed at in front of your parents. Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, has a reputation as one of the toughest taskmasters in Congress to have as a boss, and the numbers appear to justify it. The Washington Times analyzed a decade of congressional pay records to find the offices with the highest turnover rates and found 27 members who — over a period of four or more years — lost an annual average of at least one-third of their staff who sought calmer pastures or were fired.

Each year, an average of half of Mrs.

A legal tug-of-war is under way over how Gerald Levert’s assets should be split. Levert, the velvet-voiced R&B singer who died in November.

The settlement with the county and Midwest Medical Staffing Inc. District Magistrate Judge Greg White. The settlement was one of the largest of its kind in Ohio history. It contains no official admission of liability, “but it’s clear everybody agrees that this was a tragedy and it needed to be resolved,” said David Malik, lead attorney for Levert’s widow, Angela Lowe. He died after being denied his prescribed anti-anxiety medication, Xanax, the entire time he was in jail.

A coroner’s report said Xanax withdrawal contributed to Levert’s death. Lowe’s suit, which named several county staff members and Midwest Medical doctors as defendants, charged that jail policies and medical negligence contributed to Levert’s death. In fact, a Plain Dealer review showed the county jail did not have a formal policy for deciding if inmates should get their prescription medications shortly after arrival.

Decisions were made on a case-by-case basis, with many prisoners having to wait up to three days before being evaluated. Some inmates had to wait up to two weeks before seeing a doctor who would decide if they should be given medicine they had been prescribed. The jail adopted a policy exactly one year after Levert’s death, saying that inmates taking anti-anxiety drugs should be given those drugs once their prescriptions are verified.