A heated community meeting in Northeast Fresno took place Wednesday night about plans to turn The Quality Inn on Thesta Street near Bullard Avenue and Highway 41 into affordable housing. The city submitted an application for millions of dollars from the state to fund the project. A Riverside, California skilled nursing facility and its management healthcare services company agreed to pay California and the US $3.825 million to resolve allegations that they paid kickbacks to physicians to induce referrals, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The companies will pay $3,228,300 to the federal government and $596,700 to California. 

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