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Ohio Sidewalk Driver Does ‘Idiot’ Sign Time

An Ohio woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold recently at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots. A Cleveland Municipal Court judge …

Nebraska Construction Company Owner Sentenced for Wire, Insurance Fraud

A Fremont, Neb., man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for a wire fraud conviction that cost banks and insurance companies in Nebraska and Iowa millions of dollars. Thomas Herink was sentenced in Omaha’s U.S. District Court. …

Prosecutors Want Jail for Rhode Island Radio Host for Insurance Fraud

Federal prosecutors are arguing against a home confinement sentence for a former Rhode Island radio disc jockey who damaged her North Providence house in a $40,000 insurance fraud scheme after last year’s historic floods, saying it would amount to locking …