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FTC Consumer Alert: Television is Going Digital: Get the Picture:
Big changes are coming to your television. But they have nothing to do with summer re-runs or the new fall season. These changes involve the transition to digital broadcasting on February 17, 2009.
Jul 3, 2008 - 9:13:39 PM
FEMA Announcements
Disaster Officials Urge Applicants to Save Receipts
If you received rental funds or other disaster aid as a result of the June storms, save your receipts, disaster-management officials said.
Jul 3, 2008 - 9:09:59 PM
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Drug Testing: New DOT Rule Makes Cheating on Drug Testing Harder
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced today a new rule that will make it more difficult for transportation workers to cheat on their required drug tests by requiring drug testing labs to analyze every test for tampering
Jul 3, 2008 - 11:20:25 AM
Community Alerts
84,000 Fireworks recalled by Fireworks Over America
84,000 Fireworks recalled by Fireworks Over America
Jul 3, 2008 - 11:05:24 AM
Health News | Health Resources
What You Need to Know About Cholesterol
Heart disease is the number one killer of women and men in the U.S. Each year more than a million Americans have heart attacks, and about a half million people die from heart disease. High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. When there is too much cholesterol (a fat-like substance) in your blood, it builds up in the walls of your arteries.
Jul 3, 2008 - 8:06:01 AM
DOL | Federal OSHA | Cal-OSHA Related Information
Working at home in 2007
Multiple jobholders were much more likely to work at home than were single jobholders—31 versus 18 percent.
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:58:46 AM
Announcements
Opening of Military Airspace for July Fourth Weekend
The U.S. military will again make airspace available for commercial airline flights off the East Coast during the July Fourth weekend to help reduce delays for air travelers, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced today. The airspace released by the military over the upcoming weekend will allow airlines to plan alternate routes in one of the country’s most heavily flown aviation corridors.
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:41:43 AM
Environmental News | Science News
What Makes the Colors in Fireworks?
Every Independence Day, Americans all around the country are drawn to
spectacular fireworks displays. But what makes the colors so vivid?
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:41:34 AM
Community Tools
Travel Tips for Busy Summer Season
In anticipation of the busy summer travel season, U.S. Customs and Border Protection provides a few travel tips, if you are traveling abroad, returning home or visiting the United States or its Territories:
Jul 3, 2008 - 7:34:48 AM
Housing and Mortgage News
Brown Sues Countrywide For Mortgage Deception
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sued Countrywide Financial, its chief executive Angelo Mozilo, and president David Sambol, for engaging in deceptive advertising and unfair competition by pushing homeowners into mass-produced, risky loans for the sole purpose of reselling the mortgages on the secondary market.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:13:36 PM
CDC Health Advisory Notices & Announcements
Hand Hygiene Saves Lives: Patient Admission Video
This video, available in English and Spanish, teaches two key points to hospital patients and visitors to help prevent infections: the importance of practicing hand hygiene while in the hospital, and that it is appropriate to ask or remind their healthcare providers to practice hand hygiene as well.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:06:24 PM
Census Bureau Announcements
Labor Day 2008: Sept. 1, Facts, Features & Statistics
The first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a “Labor Day” on one day or another, and Congress passed a bill to establish a federal holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill soon afterward, designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day.
Jul 2, 2008 - 12:02:27 PM
DOL | Federal OSHA | Cal-OSHA Related Information
Cal/OSHA issues workplace advisory for Northern California workers
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH or Cal/OSHA) is advising employers and workers in Northern California to protect themselves from the smoke created by the many wildfires burning around the state if they are required to work outdoors.
Jul 2, 2008 - 11:54:37 AM
Announcements
Don’t Let Sparks Fly This 4th of July
With the July 4 holiday approaching, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reminding the traveling public that they are not permitted to carry fireworks, including the smallest sparklers, aboard aircraft. This includes both carry-on and checked bags because of the tremendous fire risk they pose to aircraft in the air and on the ground. Fines for passengers who break the rules are stiff.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:11:26 AM
Announcements
Man guilty of cheating casinos out of millions of dollars in racketeering case
The San Diego indictment also charged five separate individuals each with one count of conspiracy to commit several offenses against the U.S., including conspiracy to steal money and other property from Indian tribal casinos; and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Jul 2, 2008 - 8:05:50 AM
Announcements
United States Mint Unveils Design for First U.S. Coin with Readable Braille
The United States Mint is proud to
present the 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar coin design.
It will be the first coin ever minted in the history of our country to
contain readable Braille characters," said Director Moy. "I am looking
forward to presenting the design for this unprecedented coin, and I am
pleased that the United States Mint is playing a role in the cause of
bringing literacy to all blind and visually impaired Americans."
Jul 2, 2008 - 7:41:33 AM
Announcements
Pyramid Scheme Operator Settles FTC Charges
An operator who used deceptive earnings promises to recruit consumers for a
multi-level marketing operation that was a pyramid scheme has agreed to settle
Federal Trade Commission charges that the operation was illegal and violated
federal law. The settlement bars the defendant from participating in any pyramid
scheme or other prohibited marketing scheme, bars false earning claims, and
requires him to give up $20,000 in ill-gotten gains.
Jul 1, 2008 - 8:03:33 PM
Environmental News | Science News
USGS Accelerates Access to Satellite Data
Federal and state agencies that need satellite imagery from commercial sources will find it much easier to acquire the data through a streamlined process managed by the U.S. Geological Survey.
Jul 1, 2008 - 7:59:01 PM
Insurance Related Press Releases
Renting a Car for the July 4th Weekend?
I.I.I. Warns Consumers to Double-Check Coverage; Hidden Administrative
Fees and Other Charges Could Add Up If Not Properly Insured
Jul 1, 2008 - 7:53:19 PM
Insurance Related Press Releases
$30 Million Reduction for Fireman's Fund Homeowners Policyholders
Bay Area Policyholders to Enjoy $1.7 Million in Savings
Jul 1, 2008 - 10:17:16 AM
IRS Tax Tips
Filing Extensions Changing for Some Business Taxpayers Later this Year
Internal Revenue Service officials today announced a change in the extended due date on certain business returns to help individuals better meet their filing obligations. The change, which reduces the extension period from six to five months, eases the burden on taxpayers who must report information from Schedules K-1 and similar documents on their individual tax returns.
Jul 1, 2008 - 10:15:02 AM
Housing and Mortgage News
Foreclosure protection offered to displaced families in seven counties in the 'Show Me State
Foreclosure protection offered to displaced families in seven counties in the 'Show Me State'
Jul 1, 2008 - 7:25:37 AM
FEMA Announcements
FEMA Offers Two Easy Ways To Apply For Disaster Assistance
Nearly 600 Illinois residents have already found out there are
two easy ways to apply for federal disaster assistance -
two easy ways to apply for federal disaster assistance - by
calling the
Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) toll-free number or going
online.
Jul 1, 2008 - 7:21:46 AM
IRS Tax Tips
IRS Launches Four New Life Cycles on IRS.gov to Help Tax-Exempt
The Internal Revenue Service today launched four new "Life Cycles" - Web-based information tools - to help guide tax-exempt organizations through the federal tax rules and requirements that pertain to them.
Jun 29, 2008 - 10:14:10 AM
FEMA Announcements
President Declares Emergency Disaster For California
The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that the President declared an emergency exists in the state of California and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the area struck by wildfires beginning on June 20, 2008 and continuing.
Jun 29, 2008 - 10:11:18 AM
