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The former head of the city of Dothan’s tourism bureau is facing federal jail time for bank fraud. The case was connected to a music festival in 2018 in Iowa.

Two leaders of a Cedar Rapids tourism board have been ordered to serve time in federal prison for defrauding a bank to support a music festival that lost $2.3 million.

(AP)- Two leaders of a Cedar Rapids tourism board have been ordered to serve time in federal prison for defrauding a bank to support a music festival that lost $2.3 million. Aaron McCreight, the former CEO of GO Cedar Rapids, was sentenced to 18 months and Douglas Hargrave, the former chief financial officer, to 15 months. The Des Moines Register reports that both also were ordered together to pay more than $1.4 million in restitution. McCreight and Hargrave previously admitted defrauding a Ceda...

The two Go Cedar Rapids officials lied to their bank about ticket sales to get money to pay Kelly Clarkson, who was supposed to headline the festival.

Two leaders of a Cedar Rapids tourism board have been ordered to serve time in federal prison for defrauding a bank to support a music festival that lost $2.3 million. Aaron McCreight, the former CEO of GO Cedar Rapids, was sentenced to 18 months and Douglas Hargrave, the former chief financial officer, to 15 months.

I can vividly remember mom cutting coupons from the Tallahassee Democrat on Sundays at our house on Lakeshore Drive.

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Gunshots erupted at the end of a south Alabama city's signature annual event, a parade capping off the National Peanut Festival, leaving one person dead, another wounded and sending terrified spectators ducking for cover.

The Times-Journal and DeKalb Living received numerous honors across a variety of categories in the 2022 Alabama Press Association Media Awards.

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A Dale County, Alabama, homeowner who was on the phone with a police dispatcher shot an alleged intruder in the head during the call.