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Rental Customers Claim They Were Falsely Accused of Car Theft
A member of Congress is demanding Hertz fix what he calls “reckless practices” as some customers say they were accused of stealing the cars they rented.
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Rental Customers Say They Were Accused of Car Theft
A member of Congress is demanding Hertz fix what he calls “reckless practices” as customers say they were accused of stealing the cars they rented. Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan explains.
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Man Sues Hertz Over Delayed Delivery of Receipt That Eventually Cleared Him of Murder
A Michigan man is suing a car rental company for failing to produce in a timely manner a receipt that would have proved his innocence long before he was convicted of a 2011 murder
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Hertz Files for Bankruptcy Protection After More Than 100 Years in Car Rental Business
Hertz filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, unable to withstand the coronavirus pandemic that has crippled global travel and with it, the heavily indebted 102-year-old car rental company’s business. The Estero, Florida-based company’s lenders were unwilling to grant it another extension on its auto lease debt payments past a Friday deadline, triggering the filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. Hertz and its subsidiaries...
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Woman Ticketed for Rental Car's Expired Inspection Sticker
A woman visiting the D.C. area was ticketed by police for something she had no control over: The car she rented had an expired inspection sticker.
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Kepler Telescope Dead After Finding Thousands of Worlds
NASA’s elite planet-hunting spacecraft has been declared dead, just a few months shy of its 10th anniversary. Officials announced the Kepler Space Telescope’s demise Tuesday. Already well past its expected lifetime, the 9 1/2-year-old Kepler had been running low on fuel for months. Its ability to point at distant stars and identify possible alien worlds worsened dramatically at the beginning...
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Couple Wins $1.5 Million for Making Water From Air
It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for anyone who wanted one. Soon he and his wife, Laura Doss-Hertz, were thinking bigger — so...
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Companies That Changed Policy Over Gun Control Debate
In the wake of the mass shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school, these companies have responded by announcing changes to their gun sales policies and cutting their NRA discount programs.
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Dick's Sporting Goods Stance Shows Change in Corporate Social Responsibility
Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Edward Stack took a stance on gun control Wednesday, announcing one of the biggest gun retailers in the nation would no longer sell assault-style rifles or high capacity magazines in stores and no longer sell firearms to anyone under the age of 21. The change in policy, that comes just weeks after the devastating shooting at...
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‘Late Night': The Four New Planets
We may not have hyper drive yet but it’s still an exciting time in space discovery as NASA discovers thousands of planets with the aid of tools like the Kepler Space Telescope.