HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — A former Big Spring Partners employee has been arrested for stealing money from the nonprofit downtown revitalization group, The Times’ news partner WHNT is reporting. Stefanie Nicole Hamilton-Dryer was arrested Nov. 16 and charged with two counts of first-degree theft of property, plus a single count of second-degree theft of property, according…
Woodruff Arts Center officials said Tuesday that a former employee submitted $1.438 million in fraudulent invoices over the last five years. They didn’t find out about it until the unnamed “mid-level†administrator, employed since 2004, left the center at the end of October for reasons unrelated to the alleged embezzlement, said Woodruff President and CEO…
A case pending before the Colorado Court of Appeals could have a big impact on whether employers will be able to fire workers who smoke marijuana off duty. The case concerns a former Dish Network telephone operator and medical-marijuana patient who was fired after testing positive for pot, even though there was no evidence he…
A California judge has handed down a decision that could have been very costly for clothing retailer Wet Seal. The company is facing a wage and hour action that accuses it of not reimbursing its employees properly for out-of-pocket expenses. The judge declined to allow this case to be certified as a class action. Had…
A former Georgia Tech professor will serve five years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to lying about being under contract with both the Atlanta university and the University of Minnesota simultaneously. Authorities say Francois Sainfort was sentenced Monday in Fulton County. Sainfort and his wife, Julie Jacko, were charged a year ago with conspiracy to…
Online dating is getting a little bit safer now that three major sites, Match.com, eHarmony and Spark Networks (the operator of JDate and Christian Mingle) have agreed to join forces with California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris to protect members by running background checks on prospective subscribers. While some of the dating sites have already…
A judge in Santa Barbara, CA has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to hand over the last 20 years’ worth of confidential files, detailing allegations of sexual abuse by Scout leaders around the nation. Historically, Scout officials have resisted releasing the estimated 5,000 files, which have been kept since the 1920’s and are known…
The idea that Facebook and other social media sites can be used as a tool when hiring a new employee is not so surprising. What is surprising are the results of a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, where findings concluded a direct correlation between job success and the information a user publishes on their…
Hundreds of prison inmates have found new careers behind bars — by registering with the IRS as income tax preparers. A total of 331 inmates were serving prison terms when they got active or provisional tax preparer tax identification numbers from the IRS, according to an audit issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax…
Have you ever wondered who the first person was to ever possess a Social Security Number? You’re not alone and that is why we found him! John David Sweeney, Jr, according to the Social Security Administration, was issued the first official Social Security Number (SSN) on December 1, 1936. Batches of SSN records containing 1,000…
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