News published on Federal Newswire in September 2015

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the award of eight contracts totaling $14 million for research on technologies to defend ...

By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $8.4 million to support the work of 54 partner organizations in 35 states to provide training, outreach and technical assistance for socially disadvantaged, tribal and veteran farmers and ranchers. An additional $400,000 will help establish the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy Research Center at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Miss.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates today announced nearly $18 million in COPS Office grant funding aimed at addressing and reducing violent crime through programs focused on methamphetamine use and production, the distribution of heroin and other opioids and gang activity. “The funding awarded ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced that five new cities will join the Violence Reduction Network (VRN), a comprehensive approach to reducing violent crime in communities around the country. The new ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates today announced that the Justice Department has awarded more than $2 million in funding for the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI). SPI will support four jurisdictions nationwide by helping them build evidence-based, data-driven tactics and strategies to ensure law ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates today announced 44 awards totaling over $26 million in funding through the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women’s Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program. These 44 recipients will create and enhance ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with Galveston County, Texas. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement agreement with San Juan County, New Mexico, to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Six alleged members of the violent Gangster Disciples Gang have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in the attempted murders of five teenagers in South Memphis, Tennessee. Three alleged gang members previously had been charged in this case.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced an $18 million settlement to resolve allegations that Fifth Third Bank (Fifth Third) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American and Hispanic borrowers in its indirect auto lending business.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Justin Whittington, 24, of Bakersfield, California, charging him with interfering with a person’s housing rights because of his race, color or national origin by use of force or threat of force, use of a firearm during a crime of violence, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: L-3 Communications Corporation, Vertex Aerospace LLC and L-3 Communications Integrated Systems LP (collectively L-3) have agreed to pay $4.63 million to resolve allegations that they inflated labor hours for time spent by independent contractors at the military’s Continental U.S. Replacement Centers ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: The leader of a sex trafficking ring was sentenced today to 115 months in prison for operating an interstate prostitution enterprise.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: Cities are vital partners in international efforts to build social cohesion and resilience to violent extremism. Local communities and authorities are the most credible and persuasive voices to challenge violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations in their local contexts. While many cities ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Welcome to the New York Foreign Press Center. This is an on-the-record briefing on Department of Justice measures to combat violent extremism with Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin. We’re very pleased to host him today. I would like to ask, after his initial remarks we’ll go to Q&A, and please wait for the microphone and please identify yourself. Thank you. Mr. Carlin.

By Fed Newswire | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: The federal banking agencies will hold an outreach meeting on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as part of their regulatory review under the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act of 1996 (EGRPRA). The meeting is the fifth in a series of outreach sessions that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are holding throughout the country.

By Commerce News Now | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will travel to Havana on October 6-7, becoming the second U.S. cabinet official to visit Cuba since President Obama called for the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba in December 2014.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: WOOD RIVER, Ill. — A 55-year-old carman fell more than 12 feet to the ground after his aerial lift collapsed. The worker had been standing on an elevated platform to install a canopy on a railcar, but the platform could not support his weight.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: PLAINFIELD, Ill. — Workers separating circuit boards at a Plainfield electronics recycling facility were found to be overexposed to high airborne concentrations of lead and cadmium , putting them at high risk for long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 28, 2015

News Release: FOND DU LAC, Wis. — A cubic foot of soil can weigh more than 100 pounds, and workers caught beneath a few feet of soil can be seriously — or fatally — injured. A 19-year-old pipe layer in a Van Dyne farm field was exposed to dangerous cave-in hazards while installing a drain tile in an unprotected trench more than 5 feet deep.