Mary Ella Hixon, the 91-year-old mayor of River Falls, Ala., is the talk of the town after pleading guilty to having stolen $201,000 in taxpayer funds over the last three years. full story ![]()
An elderly woman's personal assistant who stole more than $35,000 from her employer received a probationary sentence Wednesday, but she was ordered to pay back the money she stole.
duluthnewstribune.com (17 days ago)
A Massapequa man who faked his own drowning last year pleaded guilty Thursday to a conspiracy charge and agreed to repay authorities the more than $35,000 they spent searching for him in the waters off Jones Beach.
newsday.com (2 months and 6 days ago)
Lawyer Geoffrey Damon escaped prison Thursday but was ordered to repay the $60,000 he admit he stole from the law firm where he worked.
rss.cincinnati.com (1 month and 20 days ago)
A Massapequa man who faked his own drowning last year pleaded guilty to conspiracy Thursday and agreed to repay authorities the more than $35,000 they spent searching for him in the waters off Jones Beach.
newsday.com (2 months and 6 days ago)

Lynne Turner, 50, stole more than £28,000 from the parish council where she had worked for 16 years. She took sums of £1,000 a time to repay her £90,000 debts.
dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 7 days ago)
During Mayor Alan Nagy's speech at the Newark Hilton, the second-year mayor emphasized something close to his heart: Newark's small-town spirit, which he said is embodied in the city's ample volunteerism.
mercurynews.com (1 month and 6 days ago)

Authorities in central Illinois were working Thursday to determine why the nephew of a small-town mayor allegedly shot to death two women, two boys and a man before leading police on a chase and dying in an exchange with gunfire with officers.
nydailynews.com (30 days ago)

LA MUELA, Spain — In the good times, the former mayor of this small, wind-swept village of 5,000 in northern Spain was busy building: the olive oil museum, the wind museum, the museum of life. If that were not enough, there was the new bullring, the sports center with 25,000 seats and the zoo with the exotic-bird park. The former mayor, María Victoria Pinilla, seemed to be...
huffingtonpost.com (20 days ago)

A town hall may have to repay an estimated 600,000 parking tickets worth more than £30 million because of missing words in the small print.
standard.co.uk (16 days ago)
A number of small banks used $2.1 billion in government cash intended to boost small-business lending to repay bailout funds from the financial crisis, a government watchdog said
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