| Tipoffs for Bangor, Maine (Lobsters) Newsletter for Sunday March 14, 2021 ( 2 items ) |
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A.G. Racine Announces Actions in 6 Cases Related to Financial Exploitation of Older and Vulnerable District Residents
WASHINGTON, March 10 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following news release on March 9, 2021:
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced the filing of four cases and resolution of two others concerning financial exploitation of elderly and vulnerable adults. The first of four new cases is against a Maryland woman who coerced a blind, vulnerable, elderly man struggling to pay for his basic needs into handing over nearly all of his social security income. A
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University of California Santa Cruz: Sea Otters Maintain Remnants of Healthy Kelp Forest Amid Sea Urchin Barrens
SANTA CRUZ, California, March 9 (TNSJou) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news:
Sea otters have long been recognized as a classic example of a keystone species, a dominant predator that maintains the balance of kelp forest ecosystems by controlling populations of sea urchins, which are voracious kelp grazers.
Since 2014, however, California's kelp forests have declined dramatically, and vast areas of the coast where kelp once thrived are now "urchin barren
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