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State regulators are scrutinizing Frontier Communications' request to tap $13.8 million from a special account amid allegations that the company hasn't improved service since purchasing Verizon's telephone landline business in West Virginia last summer.
The Public Service Commission's staff and Consumer Advocate Division say Frontier has done little to improve service quality, even though the company has spent millions of dollars to upgrade facilities and equipment during the past year.
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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is suing a Puerto Rico organization and a Georgia man, claiming they raised money for victims of the Joplin tornado but never delivered the donations.
Koster says Steve Blood, of Thomasville, Ga., and the Alivio Foundation Inc., in Puerto Rico, fraudulently solicited donations.
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WHEN Raymond Novell moved to Monrovia as a child in 1947, he was just up the street from the Alta Dena Dairy, which had been ...
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WASHINGTON - A group of U.S. veterans who say they were raped and abused by their comrades want to force the Pentagon to change how it handles such ca...
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LOS ANGELES - It seemed that Maria Campusano's financial problems were behind her when the mortgage on her Victorian home in a Massachusetts mill town was chopped by hundreds of dollars a month.
She soon learned that her troubles had just begun.
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BANNING - Two black officers formerly employed by the Police Department, and another still on the payroll, claim they were targets of discrimination and a hostile work environment that tolerated racial slurs and jokes, an attorney representing them said Monday in a letter to the city manager.
The attorney, Rupert A. Byrdsong, said he has not filed a legal claim against the city or Police Department - which employs 33 sworn personnel - but he delivered the letter to the city manager outlining officers' concerns.
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NEWARK -- In direct violation of a court order, former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell spoke with several witnesses in his upcoming corruption trial after he learned that they had been interviewed by the FBI, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in seeking to raise the issue before the jury.
Elwell's communication with the witnesses show his "knowledge of criminal wrongdoing and 'consciousness of guilt,' " Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maureen Nakly and Eric Kanefsky added in a separate motion letter to U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares.
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Courts in West Virginia and Delaware on Tuesday paved the way for Alpha Natural Resources to acquire troubled and controversial Massey Energy today, but not before newly unsealed documents raised more questions about the events leading up to the $8.5 billion deal.