Oakland money service business operators charged with laundering thousands, as feds signal their intent to target drug traffickers’ proceeds

They kept 15,000 digital fake IDs, feds say OAKLAND, Calif. — According to court records, the owners of a local money service business have been charged with laundering funds to “high risk drug trafficking areas” in Central America, indicating that federal prosecutors in the Bay Area are targeting more than just fentanyl trafficking. Silvana Jorge…

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Funyuns and flu shots? Gas station company ventures into urgent care

The urgent care industry’s market size has doubled in the last decade. Bram Sable-Smith writes for KFF Health News. TULSA, Oklahoma — Lou Ellen Horwitz was skeptical when she first learned that a gas station company was planning to open a chain of urgent care clinics. Horwitz, as CEO of the Urgent Care Association, is…

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A’s owner John Fisher breaks silence, says he won’t sell team: Las Vegas interview

A’s owner later tells NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai he’s ‘sorry’ it hasn’t worked out in Oakland, ‘SELL’ shirts are ‘hurtful’ infamously private On Wednesday, A’s owner John Fisher broke his decades-long silence, telling a Bay Area television reporter that he’s “sorry” things haven’t worked out in Oakland, just hours after releasing a lengthy interview…

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