(WHTM)– A Pennsylvania towing company owner is accused of scamming around $300,000 from customers for short-trip tows, the Attorney General announced. Vincent Fannick, 56, who owns Vince’s Towing, a tow truck company in Pittsburgh, would charge customers extremely high tow costs by not revealing prices on invoices and then charge “accident service fees,” a news […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A top official with the United States Department of Agriculture arrived in the Portland metro area with big money for local projects. Rural Utilities Service Administrator Andrew Berke, along with Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore), went to the Countryman Estates in Forest Grove, the future site of Habitat for Humanity’s eight planned […]
The Makah Indian Tribe of Northwest coastal Washington just received a nearly $300K boon from the federal government to bolster its climate change readiness with ocean mapping. On April 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced the $288,000 federal funding grant to the nation as part of a larger grant from the federal […]
(KRON) — On Thursday, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced the conviction of former Fremont City Manager Mark Danaj, who pled guilty to felony fraud against the City of Fremont. The investigation arose after discovering that Danaj “misused” his Fremont City-issued credit card for personal expenses, leading to over $300,000 in restitution fees. SF […]
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary last year after the state terminated a contract with it. Attorneys for the Transformation Project announced the settlement Monday. The nonprofit sued last year after the state canceled the contract […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week. Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to vaccinations and then falsified their immunization records, the agency […]
Dec. 25—After it’s last pack of the year at Wittenberg University, the Lesotho Nutrition Initiative (LNI) has packed more than 300,000 meals to help make a difference in the lives of children suffering from malnourishment in Lesotho in southern Africa. “These meals allow children to help reverse the effects of any malnourishment issues that they […]