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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official in Detroit has been charged in a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency and with making false statements to federal officials, the authorities announced on Wednesday.A criminal complaint against the official, Serina Baker-Hill, was unsealed on Wednesday, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Michigan said in a news release. Ms. Baker-Hill, 55, is a career customs employee and the director of an agency center focused on the automotive and aerospace industries. She was arrested and later released on bond, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office.…

Resources Minister Madeleine King has hosed down North West shelf approvals pressure and threats made by JERA about ditching local LNG over red tape, saying the Japanese giant has a “habit” of raising concerns.

Russell Wilson will be back on the prowl for his next NFL team like he was in 2024, as he’s reportedly set to meet with two quarterback-needy franchises. The Cleveland Browns and New York Giants, owners of the No. 2 and 3 overall picks in the 2025 NFL Draft respectively, will bring in the 36-year-old veteran signal caller for a meeting to see if he may be the right fit next season.According to multiple reports, the Browns will have the first meeting on Thursday, followed by the Giants on Friday.  Russell Wilson is reportedly set to meet with two quarterback-needy franchises. …

When the labour services company noticed the salary had not been deposited into Sun’s account, Yang claimed the tech company had delayed payment. Since 2014, he fabricated records for 22 fake employees, and pocketed salaries and severance pay totalling 16 million yuan. The ghost employees’ individual salaries were not disclosed. In 2022, the tech company’s finance department noticed that Sun had perfect attendance and received timely salaries, but no one had ever seen him in the office. The matter was reported to the authorities. An investigation into attendance records and bank transactions revealed Yang’s eight-year ghost employee scam. Yang was…

These are the key developments on day 1,113 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is the situation on Thursday, March 13: Fighting Ukrainian officials say Russia fired a slew of missiles and drones overnight, with one attack on Kryvyi Rih killing a 47-year-old woman and injuring nine others, while an attack on Odesa killed four. Russia has claimed major gains in the Kursk region with Russia’s Ministry of Defence reporting the capture of five more villages, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that “the dynamics are good”. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov said that…

The decision appears to conclude a gradual reversal of fortune for Southwest Key, which has worked with the federal government for more than two decades, operating more than 25 shelters across Texas, Arizona and California. It has been awarded more than $6 billion in federal funds since 2007. After the H.H.S. announced that it would review its grants to Southwest Key, Ms. Miracle, the spokeswoman, said that the government had frozen funding and put in place a stop placement order on Southwest Key shelters, forcing the nonprofit to furlough about 5,000 employees.Housing underage migrants for the federal government has been…

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) director in Michigan has been accused of running a scheme to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after a series of floods damaged her home in 2023.The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a criminal complaint against 55-year-old Serina Baker-Hill on Wednesday, charging her with engaging in a scheme to defraud FEMA and lying to federal agents.Baker-Hill is a career employee with CBP and serves as director of CBP’s Center for Excellence and Expertise over Automotive and Aerospace Engineering.”Following efforts with our interagency partners, I can report that a career Director level employee…

A popular West Kelowna, B.C., trail could look quite different in the future, as the Regional District of Central Okanagan proposes a series of changes to the park. The proposed upgrades include parking lot improvements, wider trails, and a 2.4-metre-wide multi-use pathway. However, not everyone is thrilled with the idea.Jill Rodrigues, a member of the Casa Loma Community Association, is concerned that the changes could lead to overcrowding and disrupt the atmosphere of the park.“We would end up with bikers, e-bikers, and commuters tearing through that trail on an ongoing basis,” said Rodrigues.Rodrigues also worries about the impact on wildlife,…

Ora Banda Mining has again struck gold, with a jaw-dropping set of high-grade intercepts at its latest discovery, Little Gem, south of its Riverina gold camp, outside Kalgoorlie.The company is gushing over its latest discovery results, stating the drilling has exhibited thick, rich lodes of gold and sparked an immediate 16-hole follow-up campaign.The drill program will now pepper a 4.7-kilometre gold trend emerging south of Ora Banda’s flagship Riverina mine, stretching all the way from its British Lion deposit south through Little Gem to its 32,000-ounce Sunraysia deposit.The star of the drilling program is a deep intersection at Little Gem,…

The upcoming Rangga & Cinta will star El Putra Sarira as Rangga and Leya Princy as Cinta, with Nicholas Saputra as a co-producer. Barunson E&A – the Korean company behind the Academy Award-winning movie Parasite – has signed on as a co-investor for the film and will assist with international sales. Speaking at a recent press conference for the movie, El Putra Sarira said that it was “a huge honour” to play Rangga. Leya Princy added: “When I first watched the original Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?, I was amazed by Miss Dian [as Cinta]. As such, I can only hope for the best. Hopefully,…