
By Josh Richman Oakland Tribune The operator of a Hayward company that charged students for inadequate asbestos-removal training has been sentenced to five months in federal prison, prosecutors said Monday. Rogelio Lowe, also known as Roger Lowe, 44, of Thornton, also must serve three months of home confinement and 300 hours of community service. Indicted [...]

Two Lafayette area men have been indicted in federal court on charges of unemployment insurance fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana announced Tuesday. Timothy Smith, 44, of Lafayette and Mark Culp, 39, of Monticello were indicted with four others with one count of theft of federal funds and one count [...]

Howard Floyd, 51, got a strange call. It was from a woman who had a lead on a job for him. She told him she represented a man who owned a company that was looking for new trainees. The man running the company wanted to see Floyd, the woman told him, because he had a [...]