Hank Risan allegedly used more than $3.1million in fraudulently obtained funds to pay personal credit cards, purchase collectables, and make mortgage payments on his personal residence.
Obdulia Banuelos-Esparza avoids jail time and will have to pay $40,000 in restitution in a plea bargaining deal for demanding cash from a security firm in exchange for a fairgrounds contract.
The Police Records Access Project database, now available to the public, contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases in California.
Texas businessman Marcus Andrade falsely claimed that the Panama Canal Authority was close to permitting AML Bitcoin to be used for ships passing through the canal.
China has used U.S. components to produce supercomputers believed to support nuclear explosive simulation and military simulation activities. The penalties for such illegal sales by Cadence were reduced by more than $70 million because of some coooperation with federal investigators.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it is rolling back decades-old emissions standards for cars and trucks and proposing new rules that reverse the “endangerment finding.”
Health and Human Services edict will deny children access to Head Start, career technical and adult education, says Schools Superintendent David Toston Sr.
California lawmakers are advancing a measure that would curb journalists’ access to their home addresses and contact information through their voter registration records, an attempt watchdog groups say hinders the public’s ability to hold politicians accountable.
Richard Tillman was arrested in connection with the crash on suspicion of arson. He was identified as the youngest brother of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player turned Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.