A man who ran a wire fraud operation out of a Coachella Valley home has been sentenced to 51 months in prison. Steven Pitchersky 65, used a mortgage financing scheme to steal $5.3 million from Ally Financial Inc. in Detroit, according to a report published in The Press-Enterprise. Pitchersky pleaded …
Read More »Grocery workers to vote on contract
The union that represents store workers in Southern California’s three largest supermarket chains has reached a contract agreement with those entities. An estimated 60,000 employees of Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons, all of them members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, are scheduled to vote Wednesday on the proposed …
Read More »State horse racing board delays Fairplex decision
The California Horse Racing Board has postponed its discussion on a proposal to move thoroughbred horse racing from Fairplex in Pomona to Los Alamitos Race Course. The board was expected to hear the proposal today when it met at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and possibly take action, but the …
Read More »More recalls for GM
General Motors announced today that it will recall another 2.4 million vehicles in the United States for safety reasons. The automaker has now recalled approximately 13.6 million vehicles this year, according to an Associated Press report. The latest recalls include 1.3 million older-model crossovers with defective front seat belts, one …
Read More »Local Economist Assails Energy Laws
A report says many of those regulations are keeping people poor by killing blue-collar jobs, especially in the Inland region. The study’s author says the AQMD is largely responsible for the trend, but an official with the agency says that’s not the case. It’s been repeated so often that it …
Read More »Walmart, subcontractor reach agreement with warehouse workers
Walmart and the logistics company that it uses for import distribution have agreed to settle a dispute regarding wage and hour violations at several Inland Empire warehouse-distribution operations. Schneider Logistics Inc. in Wisconsin will pay $21 million in unpaid wages and penalties in connection with violations that happened for more …
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