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Hertz Offering Settlements to Some People Who Were Cited, Arrested for Overdue Rentals
Hertz said its sent settlement offers to three dozen customers so far.
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Hundreds Say Renting From Hertz Caused Repos & Arrests
NBC Bay Area Responds to a South Bay man who had an incredible rental car hassle. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura has been looking into it and found a much bigger story.
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200+ Say Renting From Hertz Caused Repo or Arrest
NBC Bay Area Responds to a South Bay man who had an incredible rental car hassle. Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura has been looking into it and found a much bigger story.
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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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UC Berkeley Cancels Weekend Shows as PG&E Warns of Power Shutoffs
Shows scheduled this weekend at UC Berkeley have been cancelled due to the planned electrical power shutoff that is expected to include the campus, Cal Performances said Friday.
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$10K Reward Offered in Search for San Diego Woman Missing in Maui
The family of a San Diego woman last in Maui on July 21 is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to her discovery.
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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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San Francisco City Attorney Sues Hertz Over Golden Gate Bridge ‘Toll Service' Fees
Hertz rental car customers are being charged steep fees when they cross the Golden Gate Bridge that can add up to more than four times the cost of bridge tolls, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.
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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.