JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is evaluating regulations designed to curb imports of more than 3,000 products, a senior trade ministry official said on Friday, following industry concerns the rules could disrupt the domestic supply chain and disrupt exports. Southeast Asia’s biggest economy issued a regulation late last year to tighten monitoring for many imported goods, […]
“The situation is worsening,” a resident said of the growing piles of garbage outside the home KTLA 5/YouTube California home surrounded by trash A California home surrounded by piles of trash has become the subject of several complaints from its neighbors. Residents in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles are concerned over a property with […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Bands who play the thumping tuba-and-drums songs of northern Mexico on beaches in the resort city of Mazatlan appear to have emerged victorious this week after noise complaints had threatened to silence them. But anybody who planned to witness the April 8 eclipse in a moment of awed silence will likely […]
LANSING — “I’m going to murder everyone at Michigan lottery. I’m going to slit each of their throats with rusty forks,” read the message. “I’m going to commit mass genecide (sic).” That message, posted on social media in March of last year, prompted Michigan Lottery officials to call the Michigan State Police, and the agency’s […]
A pho restaurant in Portland, Oregon, has shuttered due to anonymous odor complaints, sparking a firestorm of backlash against the city’s smell codes, which residents and lawmakers slammed as potentially discriminatory. After repeated anonymous odor complaints filed to the city and the threat of a hefty fine, Pho Gabo’s northeast Portland location closed its doors […]
A new book sheds light on the lengths Trump’s campaign went to find fraud in the 2020 election. Ken Block, a software engineer, revealed he was paid about $750,000 to help conduct the search. Despite the massive payday, Block told BI he disproved many of the fraud claims in minutes. A big business cropped up […]
Mar. 9—NEW LONDON — A New London police detective with a pending sex discrimination lawsuit against the city has filed a complaint with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities alleging she was assaulted, or “body checked,” by a frustrated fellow investigator. Detective Melissa Schafranski-Broadbent, in a complaint dated Feb. 29, claims an Aug. […]
A man wanted on a warrant is in jail after Darke County community members told police where he lived, according to the Greenville Police Department Lieutenant Ryan Benge. >> Approximately 75% of Ohio fire department to resign due to ‘unaddressed issues’ Greenville police arrested Spencer Kouts, 32, at a residence in the 120 block of […]
A Fulton County ethics watchdog slated to hear complaints against District Attorney Fani Willis (D) on Thursday will no longer do so, according to an updated meeting agenda. The Fulton County Board of Ethics was expected to hear two complaints against Willis after her romance with a special prosecutor on the election interference case involving former […]
CRANSTON – The father of the 25-year-old man who died Wednesday after being found unresponsive in the medium-security unit at the Adult Correctional Institutions accuses correctional officers and medical staff of failing to take his son’s complaints seriously. “What happened is they didn’t do their job,” Willie Washington Sr. said of the sudden death of […]
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers recently signed a $9.8 million contract to reconstruct Highway 45 (Lovers Lane Road) from Rawson to College avenues in Franklin. It’s a stretch many motorists are familiar with ― and not in a good way. “I know that this section of roadway has been getting a lot of complaints on the […]
Chime, the once-high-flying fintech, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation to settle claims that it violated the state’s consumer financial protection law for tardy handling of customer complaints in 2021. The DFPI, a consumer protection agency that oversees financial services firms in California, didn’t disclose the […]