News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Retail drugstore chain Rite Aid, which operates more than 2,000 pharmacies in 18 states, will pay the United States a $4.75 million penalty to resolve allegations that its employees, in violation of the Controlled Substances Act, recorded false or incomplete information about customers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: A Fort Worth middle school teacher has been charged with child exploitation after using a popular chat app to share child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has expanded temporary guidance provided in a March 14, 2020, memorandum regarding supply shortages of N95s or other filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This expanded...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…." This is not just the first line of the novel, Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, it is a good description of our current times.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging James Jamal Curry (31, St. Petersburg) with perpetrating a biological weapons hoax. If convicted, Curry faces up to five years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an alert listing safety tips employers can follow to help protect retail workers from exposure to coronavirus.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Contact: Jeff Axel. Springdale, UT- Professional athlete Marshall Miller recently plead guilty to two counts of BASE Jumping in Zion National Park. BASE jumping is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects (Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth) using a parachute to descend safely to the ground.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A Mexican national admitted guilt in federal court Wednesday to smuggling large amounts of currency across the U.S. border.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, released the following statement after Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly submitted his resignation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Retail drugstore chain Rite Aid, which operates more than 2,000 pharmacies in 18 states, will pay the United States a $4.75 million penalty to resolve allegations that its employees, in violation of the Controlled Substances Act, recorded false or incomplete information about customers who purchased...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national previously residing in Lawrence was sentenced today for aggravated identify theft and falsely using a Social Security Number.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, April 8, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval for Arizona and California’s request to provide online purchasing of food to SNAP Households in the States of Arizona and California. This approval will allow the states to expedite the implementation...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the Maine Technology Institute in Brunswick, Maine. The grant will help develop a strategic roadmap to strengthen Maine’s marine living resources economy and improve resiliency against future natural disasters. The EDA grant will be matched with more than $522,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: A Dallas woman was sentenced via video teleconference to 46 months in federal prison for her role in a $1.4 million real estate title insurance scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging James Jamal Curry (31, St. Petersburg) with perpetrating a biological weapons hoax. If convicted, Curry faces up to five years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
Release: Focus is on Physical Sciences Research and Management of Complex Systems
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Faces Federal Charges in Navajo Nation Shooting Incident in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2020
News Release: Starting today, the U.S. Census Bureau will begin releasing weekly business application data at the national and regional levels in addition to releasing the quarterly Business Formation Statistics (BFS). The BFS, which was first released in February 2018, tracks trends in business applications and formations...
