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Embezzler who got tax credit faces new charges
Fri, Mar 19, 2010
FLINT — A convicted embezzler out on parole who snagged a multimillion-dollar business tax credit from the state of Michigan was charged today in connection with money taken from an 86-year-old neighbor with dementia. RASCO CEO Richard A. Short now faces 24 charges of fraud, embezzlement, obtaining money under false pretenses and illegal use of a financial transaction device, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said at a news conference.
SLHS students got talent
Fri, Mar 19, 2010
SPRING LAKE TOWNSHIP — Spring Lake High School students will display a wide array of talents — from singing to drumming to playing the flute — when they take the stage for the school's annual talent show tonight. The 7 p.m. show will include 14 acts that features more than 30 high school students. The acts include beat boxing, sound mixing and the Spring Lake color guard.
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- Embezzler who got tax credit faces new charges
- City Council tours Columbus Avenue as carnival site
- SLHS students got talent
- State jobless rate climbs
- Outlook for spring
- Regulators lower Consumers Energy's rate increase
- GR attorney jumps into congressional race
- Health care talk March 30 at SL District Library
- Shattered backboard highlights Bucs' regional title win over Rockford
- ArtWalk on drawing board for GH
- Portion of Harbor Drive closed today
- Wind farm proposed for Grand Haven's coast
- Take a walk on the odd side at new downtown pub
- Convicted embezzler from Muskegon-area business given tax break, then arrested
- Granholm's 'Meatout Day' angers Michigan farmers, political rivals
- Hope College cancels spring break mission trips to Mexico
- Local job-hunting workshops, clinics available
- Spring Lake Village Memorial Day Parade to remain on Exchange St.
POLICE BLOTTER
- Two West Michigan men killed in N.D. crash
- Father, son Tasered after courtroom fight
- Ottawa County mom wants more answers from her son's 2005 death
- Contractor trailer destroyed in SLT blaze
- U.S. Customs nabs $250K in drugs in Detroit
- Paroled killer gets prison for shooting girl, 5
- GHT man pleads guilty to CSC charges
- Police probe racist Easter egg notes
- Police: Man, 18, took photos of men tanning
- Police investigating Muskegon shootings
- Police fatally shoot woman with shotgun
- Lenawee County man gets prison for dogfighting
