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Published 09/06/2010 - 9:30 a.m. CST
All Estrella cheeses put consumers at risk for Listeria
monocytogenes
Fast Facts
* This advisory affects all lots of Estrella Family Creamery cheeses, including cheeses identified as soft, semi-soft, semi-hard and hard.
* The cheeses have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) and may cause serious illness.
* L. mono is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
* Listeria infections can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
* Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
* Consumers who have the cheeses should throw them away.
* Consumers with symptoms of Listeria should consult their health care professionals.
Fast Facts
* This advisory affects all lots of Estrella Family Creamery cheeses, including cheeses identified as soft, semi-soft, semi-hard and hard.
* The cheeses have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) and may cause serious illness.
* L. mono is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
* Listeria infections can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
* Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
* Consumers who have the cheeses should throw them away.
* Consumers with symptoms of Listeria should consult their health care professionals.
Published 09/06/2010 - 8:05 a.m. CST
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Have you ever seen someone struggling to complete a simple task but
haven’t been sure how to help? Are you unsure of the best approach?
Take an example: Someone whose wheelchair won’t ascend a curb; or
someone in the grocery store using a cane and has dropped several
items that have scattered.
Many people do feel uncomfortable approaching someone with a disability and offering to help. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 51 million Americans are either impaired or defined as disabled. After years of war in this country, the number of disabled veterans has jumped by 25 percent. With statistics like these, it’s important to teach children at an early age that helping the disabled is appropriate and a rewarding part of daily life.
Many people do feel uncomfortable approaching someone with a disability and offering to help. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 51 million Americans are either impaired or defined as disabled. After years of war in this country, the number of disabled veterans has jumped by 25 percent. With statistics like these, it’s important to teach children at an early age that helping the disabled is appropriate and a rewarding part of daily life.
Published 09/05/2010 - 7:41 a.m. CST
AUSTIN, TX - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has opened an anti-trust investigation into internet giant Google’s methods for internet search rankings.
“We’ve recently been approached by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office, which is conducting an antitrust review of Google,” said, Google’s Deputy General Counsel Don Harrison.
Published 09/03/2010 - 5:05 p.m. CST
Company Agrees to Pay $17.4 Million Criminal Fine
WASHINGTON — Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the air transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced yesterday.
WASHINGTON — Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices in the air transportation industry, the Department of Justice announced yesterday.
Published 09/03/2010 - 1:00 p.m. CST
WASHINGTON— Harold Hutcheson, a former captain at the Northwest
Correctional Complex (NCC), in Tiptonville, Tenn., and Joshua Ryan
Jones and Roger Forrester, former officers at NCC, were sentenced in
federal court yesterday in Jackson, Tenn., for violating the civil
rights of an inmate and then lying about it during the state and
federal investigations. Hutcheson was sentenced to serve eight months
in prison and two years of supervised release; Jones was sentenced to
serve 10 months in prison and two years of supervised release; and
Forrester was sentenced to serve 10 months in prison and two years of
supervised release.
Published 09/03/2010 - 10:56 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON — A former U.S. Army contracting official based at Fort
Carson, Colo., pleaded guilty to submitting a false statement to the
U.S. Army, the Department of Justice announced yesterday.
According to a one-count felony charge filed on July 16, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Denver, William T. Armstrong, former chief of the construction division of the Fort Carson Directorate of Contracting, made a false statement in connection with a matter involving the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, an agency within the executive branch of the United States. The department said that Armstrong provided a false statement when he denied receiving reportable gifts on an annual confidential financial disclosure report submitted to the U.S. Army Contracting Agency.
According to a one-count felony charge filed on July 16, 2010, in the U.S. District Court in Denver, William T. Armstrong, former chief of the construction division of the Fort Carson Directorate of Contracting, made a false statement in connection with a matter involving the U.S. Army Contracting Agency, an agency within the executive branch of the United States. The department said that Armstrong provided a false statement when he denied receiving reportable gifts on an annual confidential financial disclosure report submitted to the U.S. Army Contracting Agency.
Published 09/03/2010 - 6:45 a.m. CST
Bilked Telephone Customers for Approximately $35 Million
WASHINGTON – Willoughby Farr, 46, of West Palm Beach, Fla., has been sentenced to 262 months in prison and three years of supervised release for perpetrating a “cramming scheme,” which was designed to place charges on consumers’ telephone bills for collect calls that were not made, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspector’s Miami Field Office announced yesterday.
Published 09/02/2010 - 5:42 p.m. CST
Agrees to Forfeit $360,000 to U.S. Government
WASHINGTON - A former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
WASHINGTON - A former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
Published 09/02/2010 - 3:52 p.m. CST
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Director Bromwich to Host Forums in Texas and Mississippi to Discuss
Deepwater Drilling Safety, Containment and Spill Response; Experts
from Academia, Industry and Environmental Organizations to Give
Presentations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) today announced that Director Michael R. Bromwich will hold the next two events in a series of fact-finding forums in Houston, Texas and Biloxi, Miss. the week of September 6, 2010. The forums are designed to collect information and views about deepwater drilling safety reforms, well containment, and oil spill response, which Director Bromwich will consider in evaluating whether to recommend any modifications to the scope or duration of the deepwater drilling suspensions announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on July 12, 2010.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) today announced that Director Michael R. Bromwich will hold the next two events in a series of fact-finding forums in Houston, Texas and Biloxi, Miss. the week of September 6, 2010. The forums are designed to collect information and views about deepwater drilling safety reforms, well containment, and oil spill response, which Director Bromwich will consider in evaluating whether to recommend any modifications to the scope or duration of the deepwater drilling suspensions announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on July 12, 2010.
Published 09/04/2010 - 10:28 a.m. CST
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Story by Staff Sgt. Nathaniel Smith
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq – For the world’s Muslim population, which is estimated at more than 1.5 billion as of October 2009, Ramadan is one of the most celebrated times of year.
United States Division-South expressed their respects to the Islam community in their area of operations and to the holy month by hosting an Iftar celebration on Contingency Operating Base Basra Aug. 28.
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq – For the world’s Muslim population, which is estimated at more than 1.5 billion as of October 2009, Ramadan is one of the most celebrated times of year.
United States Division-South expressed their respects to the Islam community in their area of operations and to the holy month by hosting an Iftar celebration on Contingency Operating Base Basra Aug. 28.
Published 09/03/2010 - 3:03 p.m. CST
Another Latin Kings Member Pleads Guilty for His Role in Racketeering
Conspiracy, Including Armed Robbery and a Firebombing
WASHINGTON - U.S. District Court Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Andres Echevarria, aka "B-Boy" and "King B-Boy," 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., yesterday to 228 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, in connection with his gang activities as a member of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings).
WASHINGTON - U.S. District Court Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Andres Echevarria, aka "B-Boy" and "King B-Boy," 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., yesterday to 228 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise, in connection with his gang activities as a member of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings).
Published 09/03/2010 - 11:34 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following
statement on the August 2010 Employment Situation report released
today:
"This past August, the economy gained 67,000 jobs in the private sector, and the unemployment rate increased to 9.6 percent. Total nonfarm employment declined by 54,000 over the month, as 114,000 temporary census jobs wrapped up between July and August and more than offset the private sector job gains."
"This past August, the economy gained 67,000 jobs in the private sector, and the unemployment rate increased to 9.6 percent. Total nonfarm employment declined by 54,000 over the month, as 114,000 temporary census jobs wrapped up between July and August and more than offset the private sector job gains."
Published 09/03/2010 - 8:53 a.m. CST
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that a federal grand
jury in Honolulu indicted Mordechai Orian, an Israeli national; Pranee
Tubchumpol, Shane Germann and Sam Wongsesanit of Global Horizons
Manpower Inc., located in Los Angeles; and Thai labor recruiters
Ratawan Chunharutai and Podjanee Sinchai for engaging in a conspiracy
to commit forced labor and document servitude. The charges arise from
the defendants’ alleged scheme to coerce the labor and services of
approximately 400 Thai nationals brought by the defendants to the
United States from Thailand from May 2004 through September 2005 to
work on farms across the country under the U.S. federal agricultural
guest worker program. Orian, Tubchumpol and Chunharutai are also
charged with three substantive counts of compelling the labor of three
Thai guest workers.
Published 09/03/2010 - 6:15 a.m. CST
The following is an official statement by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Arpaio regarding yesterday's lawsuit against his office by the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington D.C. for alleged refusal to turn
over documents. It is followed by another statement by his Washington
D.C. attorney, Bob Driscoll.
"The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one against my office. Each lawsuit centers on something to do with alleged racial discrimination."
"The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one against my office. Each lawsuit centers on something to do with alleged racial discrimination."
Published 09/02/2010 - 4:38 p.m. CST
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against the
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), Maricopa County, and Maricopa
County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for refusing full cooperation with the
department’s investigation of alleged national origin discrimination
in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI
prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds, and
also requires grant recipients to cooperate with investigations of
discrimination by providing access to documents, facilities and staff.
MCSO signed contractual assurance agreements as a condition of
receiving federal funds, and promised that it would cooperate with
investigations of alleged discrimination.
Published 09/02/2010 - 5:23 a.m. CST
This week the Army, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard announced a decrease in activated reservists, while the Air Force and Navy announced an increase. The net collective result is 215 fewer reservists activated than last week.
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