A south Charlotte restaurant received its third “B” grade in a row from the Mecklenburg County Health Department for numerous health violations, including the presence of insects and improper food storage. ▪ Mezeh Mediterranean Grill, 4920 Old Sardis Rd., received a score of 86 during its July 3 inspection. Health department inspectors dinged the restaurant […]
BEDFORD, Pa. – A recent Bedford County Republican Party reorganization meeting during which the county’s former district attorney, Bill Higgins, was elected chairman of the county party has been declared invalid, null and void by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. The state party’s credentials committee found that the May 9 meeting was improperly scheduled and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday a review of 1 million claims for the Employee Retention Credit representing $86 billion shows the “vast majority” are at risk of being improper. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Its […]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a member of the Judiciary Committee, requested information from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito tied to an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year in which Alito questioned whether Congress has the power to impose ethics rules on the Supreme Court. In the letter made public Friday, Whitehouse, D-R.I., accused Alito […]
An south Charlotte restaurant received a “B” grade from the Mecklenburg County Health Department for numerous health violations, the presence of insects and raw foods stored at unsafe temperatures. ▪ LoSo Tavern, 4548 Old Pineville Rd., received a score of 86.5 during its May 16 inspection. Health department inspectors cited the restaurant after finding “flying […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Little Rock woman is facing federal charges related to an investigation into the alleged improper use of pandemic relief funds. According to federal court documents, 31-year-old Chandler Wilson Carroll is facing four counts of wire fraud and four counts of alleged money laundering. AG Rutledge: White County woman arrested in […]
Two livestock marts have received financial penalties after a regulatory body concluded they separately engaged in improper conduct. The High Court president confirmed decisions to require Corcaghan Co-operative Agricultural & Dairy Society, trading as Ballybay Livestock Sales, in Co Monaghan, to pay €13,000 and Mountbellew Regional Co-operative Livestock Mart Society in Co Galway to pay […]
Mar. 4—State regulators have fined the U.S. Department of Energy $420,000 for what they say is flawed hazardous waste storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory — problems that were never fixed after inspectors first observed them in 2022. The state has imposed penalties on the agency’s Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office for three sets […]
Feb. 28—FAIRMONT — An allegation Fairmont City Council broke the open meetings act overshadowed the nomination of Travis Blosser as the tenth city manager at Tuesday night’s council meeting. Council voted on a resolution to nominate Blosser to city manager in order to begin contract negotiations, to which Deputy Mayor Josh Rice was the single […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have been issued subpoenas by a defense attorney who has alleged Willis and the prosecutor had an inappropriate romantic relationship. Lawyer Ashleigh Merchant, who represents Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, […]
ATLANTA — Former President Donald Trump moved Thursday to adopt a motion to dismiss the election interference charges against him in Georgia, with his lawyer pointing to allegations of an improper romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Trump’s lead defense counsel requested a dismissal of the indictment […]
A Georgia judge on Thursday ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to respond to claims she had an improper romantic relationship with a prosecutor, potentially delaying the state’s case against Donald Trump for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee asked the state to respond to the […]