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FTC releases list of top consumer complaints in 2010

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WASHINGTON–(USNewswire)–The Federal Trade Commission today released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010.  The list showed that for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was the number one consumer complaint category.  Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 – or 19 percent – were related to identity theft. […]

The Poor and Disenfranchised of the Middle East Demand Freedom Using Non-Violent Methods

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By Danny R. Johnson “Privileged groups rarely give up their privileges without strong resistance. However, when oppressed people rise up against oppression there is no stopping point short of full freedom. Realism compels us to admit that the struggle will continue until freedom is a reality for all the oppressed people of the world.” Dr. […]

Arch Coal to pay $4 million to settle Clean Water Act violations

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WASHINGTON–The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that Arch Coal Inc., the second largest supplier of coal in the United States, has agreed to pay a $4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Under the settlement, Arch Coal […]

22 arrested, $2.2 million in cash seized from rogue pain clinics

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MIAMI–DEA Agents, with assistance from its federal, state, and local law enforcement partners, arrested 22 people and seized over $2.2 million in cash and 70 vehicles, including numerous exotic cars February 23 in a sweeping takedown of rogue pain clinics in South Florida. These arrests are the first in Operation Pill Nation resulting from 340 […]

Company pleads guilty to employment-related immigration conspiracy

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GULFPORT, Miss.–Howard Industries, Inc., one of the largest employers in Mississippi, pled guilty in federal court Thursday to knowingly violating the federal criminal conspiracy law in its employment of illegal aliens at the company’s electrical transformer plant in Laurel, Miss., following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Howard […]

New Hampshire man sentenced to prison for engaging in child exploitation

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WASHINGTON–Patrick Carney of Manchester, N.H., was sentenced Friday in the Western District of Pennsylvania to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton and U.S. […]

The 2011 C-PAC Conference Message To Democrats: Be On Guard – The GOP Is Ready To Rock And Roll

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By Danny R. Johnson WASHINGTON–Political conferences, like the annual Academy Awards Oscars show in Hollywood, is sometimes judged by the star power of their guest lists. By that standard, the 11,000 delegates who gathered in Washington in the middle of an unusual calm winter week (February 10-13) for the 38th Annual Conservative Political Action Conference […]

Airmen missing in action from WWII identified

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WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) said that the remains of 11 U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Charles A. Bode, 23, Baltimore, will be buried on Feb. […]

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