HOWLAND, Ohio (WKBN) — Trumbull County’s new certified Weights and Measures Inspector, Kendra Blake, is making history. First News tagged along for an inspection, where Blake was testing a weigh beam ...

Allen County residents are affected by the Department of Weights and Measures constantly, whether it's while shopping for produce or filling their vehicles' gas tanks. The two inspectors who guarantee ...

During recent months, credit card theft devices (commonly known as skimmers) have been detected in Santa Barbara County. Though it is unknown how widespread the problem is, inspectors from the Santa ...

Many of us don’t give any thought to the importance of the weights and measures inspections that go on in our communities. Inspectors have their hands full, what with examining devices to make sure ...

Motorists filling up at the Thorntons in Third Lake last year had a one in three shot of getting a pump that wasn't dispensing the right amount of fuel. Annual records from the Illinois Department of ...

Mary Bach isn’t surprised the price scanning system at a Giant Eagle in New Kensington failed an inspection this week. The consumer advocate from Murrysville said price scanning errors — recording the ...

When consumers get a bad meal, they know it. But getting shortchanged on a few ounces of ground beef might not be as readily detectable. And motorists likely don’t know if the gas pump is accurate.

You pick out eight green Granny Smith apples for a pie, put them in the plastic bag and seal with a twisty tie. At the grocery check out, the computerized scale weighs your apples, automatically ...

A Johnson County Weights and Measures inspection sticker is shown on a gas pump at the Kroger gas station in Franklin. Johnson County residents may not know what the county weights and measures ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- Wisconsin is cracking down on people trying to get their hands on your credit card information. State audits have helped catch illegal card skimmers at gas pumps and ATM's. FOX 11 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) — The Illinois Department of Agriculture instructed 26 inspectors in the Weights and Measures division to return to work on Monday, the same day Governor J.B. Pritzker ...

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