Other LanguagesSEATTLE -- A Renton dentist today was sentenced to serve six months on home detention and ordered to pay $175,000 in restitution to the state after pleading guilty in December to theft and fraud charges filed after he billed the state Medicaid program for services he did not provide.
OLYMPIA -- Attorney General Christine Gregoire said today the state has gone to court to force the U.S. Department of Energy to pay a $6.8 million tax bill it owes the state.
SEATTLE - The checks are in the mail today for 10,419 Washington consumers who were overcharged for home loans by Household International.
SEATTLE -- Attorney General Christine Gregoire today announced a plan for distributing approximately $37 million the state will receive over the next 20 years from antitrust settlements with two major energy companies, Williams Energy and El Paso Energy.
Olympia -The state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that ruled Washington's blanket primary unconstitutional, Attorney General Christine Gregoire announced today.
SEATTLE- A Seattle roofing-products manufacturer has agreed to pay restitution to hundreds of Washington consumers who purchased defective HO-25 or Horizon Shingles from the company between January 1990 and the present, Attorney General Christine Gregoire announced today.
SEATTLE -- Millions of dollars are still available to consumers who used the cancer drug Taxol or its generic equivalent, paclitaxel from January 1, 1999 through February 28, 2003.
TACOMA -- The top state and federal law enforcement officials in Washington announced today that an extensive investigation at Tacoma Police Department found no grounds for criminal charges but abundant evidence of troubling management issues in the agency.
Olympia -11/10/03- Major tobacco companies have agreed to remove cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertisements from the editions of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report that are sent into classrooms for use by students, according to Attorney General Christine Gregoire.
OLYMPIA -- Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire has undergone successful surgery at St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.