The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A forgivable loan program for businesses that keep employees on the payroll through the current economic ...

The Small Business Administration’s final rules were issued Friday morning on how to apply for funding available from the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program included in the Coronavirus Aid, ...

One of the founders of the lender service provider Blueacorn has entered a guilty plea in a scheme intended to fraudulently obtain COVID relief money through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A ...

About 400 government employees investigated by the state of Illinois improperly tapped a federal pandemic relief fund program meant to keep small businesses afloat — part of a nationwide wave of ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ/US Attorney’s Office Release) - A Roanoke woman who “orchestrated a wide-ranging conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of a scheme to steal from the Small Business Association’s ...

A Tri-Cities woman is accused of defrauding a federal COVID loan program intended to help small businesses survive the ...