Jair Bolsonaro has been formally accused of embezzlement after he allegedly misappropriated jewellery worth £2.5 million from Saudi Arabia, two police sources told Reuters. The accusations against Brazil’s former president by the country’s federal police also include money laundering and criminal association for allegedly misappropriating the expensive state gifts, one of the sources said. Though […]
CUMBERLAND − The Wilds will be the recipient of a $2.5 million grant from the Ohio Senate’s One-Time Strategic Community Investment Fund to build a new giraffe barn as part of its conservation efforts and to build innovative lodging that allows guests to interact more freely with the animals in its 30th year of being […]
HENDERSONVILLE – Henderson County commissioners on June 19 approved a $204.5 million budget for the 2025 fiscal year, one that provides funding for all of the remaining requests for schools, recreation and fire departments without raising taxes or dipping below the county’s policy of maintaining a restricted fund balance of 12%. Commissioners agreed to give […]
The study, titled “Job Creation in Africa’s Second-hand Clothing Sector“, was commissioned by the Humana People to People development network. It estimates the SHC trade contributes more than $73.5m annually in tax revenues, funds that support critical public services and infrastructure across just five African nations – Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In February […]
After about two decades, the small town of Honea Path has the money to clean up an abandoned textile mill property that was the site of one of South Carolina’s most deadly labor strikes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $2,650,770 grant for the cleanup at what once was Chiquola Mill. The state added […]
After about two decades, the small town of Honea Path has the money to clean up an abandoned textile mill property that was the site of one of South Carolina’s most deadly labor strikes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $2,650,770 grant for the cleanup at what once was Chiquola Mill. The state added […]
The Texas Department of Public Safety is seeking a retrial after being ordered by a jury to pay $2.5 million in lost wages to a former state trooper who became sick from toxic burn pit exposure during his Army Reserve unit’s deployment to Iraq in 2007 and 2008. The former trooper, Le Roy Torres, an […]
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine gives his 2024 State of the State address in the Ohio House chambers at the Ohio Statehouse. (Pool photo by Barbara J. Perenic, Columbus Dispatch.) Versions of this story are being published by the USA Today Network, Floodlight, Energy News Network, and the Ohio Capital Journal. In 2018, Akron-based FirstEnergy donated […]
STERLING, Va. – Investigators announced Friday that they have finished their on-site investigation, one week after a home exploded in Loudoun County, killing one firefighter and injuring many more. The Loudoun County Fire and Rescue’s Fire Marshal’s Office believes last Friday’s explosion at 347 Silver Ridge Dr. in Sterling was caused by a leaking 500-gallon underground […]
A $2.5 million house on Lake Murray is headed to a Sotheby’s auction in New York City next month. Located in Chapin at the end of a peninsula, the house is a three-bedroom, three bath Tuscan style that can’t be missed no matter how fast you fly by in your boat. The Sotheby’s auction will […]