markets2019-01-17
ARMY Talbert Manufacturing Inc.,* Rensselaer, Indiana, was awarded a $360,249,853 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of M872A4 semitrailers and associated items. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, wit....Read more
regulatory2019-01-17
With the number of overdose deaths involving prescription and illicit opioids more than doubling over the last seven years to nearly 48,000 in 2017, it’s critical that we continue to address this tragedy from all fronts. This includes new ways to increase availability of naloxone, a drug used to ....Read more
news2019-01-17
Retired Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) will work for a firm helping Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador develop DNA databases, which they could use to reunite separated families and combat human trafficking. Reichert is a former sheriff who caught the Green River Killer. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCr....Read more
news2019-01-17
A survey by state information officers and consulting firm Deloitte & Touche found that only 45 percent of states require that all executive branch employees complete cyber training. That’s up from 37 percent in 2016. The officials named phishing and ransomware as two of the top cyber threats. ....Read more
news2019-01-17
A civil-rights leader complains that William Barr, President Trump's attorney general nominee, was a "general in the war on crime and drugs that was rooted in racism." Barr agreed to a request by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to study the issue. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
news2019-01-17
“In a little town where everyone knows everyone’s business, how could we not know that’s who he was?," asks FedEx driver Shawn Germann of Gordon, Wi., where Jake Patterson is accused of holding Jayme Closs captive for 88 days. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
news2019-01-17
Retired Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) will work for a firm helping Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador develop DNA databases, which they could use to reunite separated families and combat human trafficking. Reichert is a former sheriff who caught the Green River Killer. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCr....Read more
news2019-01-17
Election officials on Wednesday certified a statewide referendum backed by a coalition of bail industry associations, verifying more than 400,000 signatures to qualify a measure for the ballot that would overturn a law passed to abolish the state's money bail system. Source: The Crime Report ( The....Read more
news2019-01-17
President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, said at his confirmation hearing that he wanted to release as much as possible of what special counsel Robert Mueller finds. But he said he needed to learn more about the report and the regulations that govern releasing information fr....Read more
news2019-01-17
A federal appeals court rejected an effort by three major U.S. cities to require the Pentagon to be more vigilant about reporting service members who were disqualified from owning weapons to a national background check system. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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