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MOBILE, Ala. (NBC 15) — NBC 15 News has learned the nearly $15 million Mobile lost to fraud could carry a much higher price tag. The city borrowed the money and must still repay it with interest. Based on the bond’s scheduled payments, the $14.7 million loss accounts for an estimated $22.2 million in payments over 20 years, a calculation the city confirms is correct. One city employee has been fired and two others placed on paid administrative leave as the city investigates how the fraud happene

South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis runs a program that matches unclaimed property to its owner and sends the check without a claim form. The office calls it Palmetto Payback. A letter arrives first, the check follows about four to six weeks later, and each check is good for only 90 days. How Palmetto Payback sends... The post South Carolina’s treasurer is mailing unclaimed-property checks to people who never asked for them appeared first on The Financial Wire .

TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. (10/24/2026 1:30 PM) — A Morganton man is charged with felony patient abuse, accused of handling a resident of Valley Nursing Center in a way that broke the man’s femur. Morganton Public Safety officers arrested Jonathan Philip Cook, 35, early Saturday on a warrant taken out...

Homeowners who paid thousands of dollars to a California company say they were left with unfinished projects and financial losses.

A 44-year-old Georgia man fatally shot a man whom he claimed was having an illicit affair with his wife outside a restaurant, which sent patrons scrambling and injured two of them. The post Husband fuming over wife's alleged affair opens fire on man in restaurant parking lot who was accused of 'sleeping' with her: Police first appeared on Law & Crime .

Edwin Brant Frost IV, founder of First Liberty Building and Loan, is accused of using his Christian faith and Republican political connections to attract more than 300 investors.

“Thank you for making it a little easier on us, but that's not dealing with the driver of the issue,” Davidson said.

ATLANTA – Atlanta social media personality “Shawty Dred,” real name Mercedes Reshard New, was arrested on federal charges accusing him of fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million in food assistance benefits, prosecutors said. New, 39, was indicted Oct. 7 on 46 counts of mail fraud, 15 counts...

Officials with the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Ashland County Sheriff confirmed to the FOX 8 I-Team that a small plane clipped a home and crashed on Township Road 523 on Monday afternoon.

New York confirmed box tree moth in Nassau County, its first find outside the upstate quarantine. Residents are asked to check boxwoods for webbing and report it.