ABBEVILLE, La. (KLFY)- The Abbeville Police Department is investigating a possible campus threat, which prompted the temporary lock down of all schools within the city limits
Abbeville Police Department spokesman Lt. Jonathan Touchet said the alleged threat was not made toward a specific campus. All schools are being investigated as a precaution.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect until Noon for northern Acadiana. A low threat for severe weather is still expected today as scattered rain becomes more likely this morning. Damaging winds, large hail, and a tornado is possible within certain storms. The severe threat should start to end this afternoon as cooler and breezy weather pushes into the area. Showers will linger into Thursday morning as temps drop into the mid 50s along with the breezy conditions.
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Customers say fake Dominion Energy calls continue, demanding money, threatening to end service
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) -This week is considered the time to better understand your consumer rights, and learn ways to improve your spending habits for National Consumer Protection Week. Some state officials are also taking this time to warn consumers about the continued problem of scams.
Consumer Affairs is reporting that in the month of January, there were about 60 scams reported and that South Carolinians lost more than $22,000 due to scams.
Dominion Energy says their customer contact centers are getting repeated complaints about scams. It's an issue WIS-TV first reported on back in October.
Power Customers Urged To Update Their Contact
It is important that all customer information is up to date so PG&E can share important wildfire safety alerts. This is especially critical for medical baseline customers. In addition to notifying customers directly, PG&E also will provide outage updates and information through channels such as social media, local news, radio and the pge.com website.
"As a result of a drier than expected January and February, the 2020 wildfire season may arrive sooner than expected, so we all need to be better prepared to stay emergency-ready and to keep our families and friends safe," said Chief Customer Officer, Senior Vice President Laurie Giammona. "We are asking our customers to be sure we have their latest contact information so we can do our best to reach them in advance of a potential Public Safety Power Shutoff event."
Small businesses take measures to keep employees, customers safe from coronavirus | kgw.com
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Oregon — When COVID-19 was detected for the first time in Oregon, small business owner David Gadlin decided to do something about it.
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"When I decided to close on Saturday, in my mind it was at least 50-50 that I was going to open on Tuesday. Tuesday came around and I'm not opening. I don't think I'll open tomorrow, probably not the next day. We'll see."
Gadlin runs Study of Sweets, a small chocolate retail shop with over 250 chocolate bars, about 100 vegan options, candied pretzels, truffles and bon-bons. He says closing up was made for his employee's and customer's safety.
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Target's Winning Strategy: Focus On Employees And Customers
Target's investor call yesterday recapping last year's performance was almost as much about what the company said as it was about what it did not say.
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Target is investing in its employees with higher wages and better training to position it as an employer of choice. To minimize the costs of the investments in labor, Target stated the improvement in supply chain and operational structure will offset the added cost in employee initiatives. Supply chain strategies include using robotics and artificial intelligence to support the warehouse team with task-oriented work such as sorting millions of products by store and by aisle.
Axcient CEO To MSPs: We Can Help You Keep Customers From Paying Ransomware
With the rise in ransomware attacks and with the penalty for not paying the ransom for hijacked data potentially much more severe than the cost of the ransom itself, it is important that MSPs find a way to convince customers to not pay it.
That's the message from David Bennett (right in photo), CEO of data protection software and appliance vendor Axcient , who Tuesday told a group of MSPs gathered at this week's XChange 2020 conference that not paying the ransom has been his mantra since he joined the company just over a year ago.
Robinhood Outage Strands Customers as Markets Go Haywire - WSJ
An outage that took down popular online brokerage Robinhood Financial LLC extended into a second day Tuesday, locking customers out of the markets on a wild trading day.
Problems resumed soon after markets opened Tuesday and lasted about two hours. Customers were left on the sidelines when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point to combat coronavirus fears, roiling markets .
Customers adjust to using paper or reusable bags at stores in Olean | Olean | oleantimesherald.com
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