News from August 2019

By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2019
News Release: GETTYSBURG, PA: On September 21 and 22, the National Park Service will sponsor its annual World War II living history weekend at Eisenhower National Historic Site. The public is invited to tour World War II encampments of over 500 living historians portraying Allied and Axis troops.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Under Secretary of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) and Chief Intelligence Officer David J. Glawe attended the 2019 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference on Aug. 20, 2019 in Tampa, Florida, where he was a keynote speaker for the event. The DoDIIS ...

By USDA Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Aug. 23, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Chief Economist has published a detailed accounting of how estimated damage from trade disruptions was calculated for its support package for farmers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Velentzas, both citizens of the United States and residents of Queens, pleaded guilty to teaching and distributing information pertaining to the making and use of an explosive, destructive device, and weapon of mass destruction, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Southeastern Grocers Inc. and its subsidiaries BI-LO LLC and Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. (together, “SEG”), owners and operators of regional grocery store chains BI-LO LLC, Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., Fresco y Más and Harveys Supermarket, have agreed to reduce emissions of potent ozone depleting gases from refrigeration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 13, 2017, The Walt Disney Company entered into an agreement to acquire certain assets and businesses from Twenty-First Century Fox, including Fox’s 22 regional sports networks (RSNs). After an investigation, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on June 27, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Tesa Keith, 38, a former direct service provider at the San Angelo State Supported Living Center in San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for violating the civil rights of K.B., a resident at the facility, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, and FBI Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: CLINTON TWP, MI – Brickworks Property Restoration – a masonry company based in Clinton Township, Michigan – will pay $130,788 in back wages to 58 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime and recordkeeping provisions.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: GLENDALE, CA – A Glendale, California, software engineering company has paid $48,193 to one employee after a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigation found the employer violated labor provisions of the H-1B foreign labor certification program. WHD investigators found Assigncorp ...

By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BOLINGBROOK, IL – The U.S. Department of Labor and the Joint Outreach Task Group will provide information about the benefits available to current and former nuclear weapons workers from covered facilities, and their families, under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act on ...

By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA - A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has awarded $1,047,399 in lost wages and punitive damages to two former employees of a Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, manufacturer after a jury found the company and its owner fired them in retaliation for their participation in a federal safety investigation.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 23, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 23, 2019
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 23, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 23, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
The US Interior Department published a five page notice on Aug. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.