Sentences with phrase «federal officials say»

Eight California real estate investors will plead guilty to a bid - rigging scam in which they purchased foreclosed properties at auctions, federal officials say.

Federal officials say overly strict disciplinary polices have created a school - to - prison pipeline and a growing disparity in the number of African - American students who are expelled or kicked out of school compared with their white peers.

One of the largest Native American tribes is the first community in the US to implement a hepatitis C elimination program to treat its citizens; federal officials say the initiative could serve as a national model.

While concerns over beef contaminated with E. coli and chicken tainted with dioxin have triggered the largest beef recall in history and prompted schools to throw away tons of chicken patties, federal officials say no students have become ill from eating the foods.

Federal officials say similar concerns weigh on other ranchers, and that «use it or lose it» statutes create a strong headwind for the government's conservation program, prompting ranchers to worry about becoming too efficient for their own good.

The regulation was prompted, federal officials say, by a federal law known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which among other things governs the use of medical records and the protection of patient privacy.

Federal officials say New York state paid out $ 1.4 billion in Medicaid funds to care providers who did not follow the state's rules.

Federal officials say all but one are subjects of on going criminal investigations.

Federal officials say they are withholding an estimated $ 14 million from New York after the state failed to submit an adequate plan for removing «I Love NY» signs that were posted illegally on Long Island and elsewhere.

Federal officials say Long Island has eliminated chronic homelessness among veterans.

State and federal officials say New York will be among the winners named for Race to the Top funding later today.

Federal officials say Mangano and Venditto received bribes and kickbacks from a businessman who gave Mangano's wife a lucrative no - show job the year her husband first took office.

Federal officials say Florida - based Darden Restaurants will pay almost $ 3 million to settle a U.S. age discrimination lawsuit alleging its Seasons 52 restaurants don't hire «old white guys.»

SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California company that federal officials say violated salary requirements of the country's foreign - worker visa program will pay a total of $ 173,044 to 12 workers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday.

Federal officials said black lung has caused roughly 78,000 deaths since the late 1960s and there has been a resurgence of it in recent years, especially in eastern Kentucky.

Federal officials said they «re hearing from businesses in their districts that they «re worried about the impact of these tariffs.

SAN DIEGO (AP)-- A grocery store in San Diego subjected Hispanic employees to harassment and a hostile work environment by implementing a no - Spanish language policy, federal officials said Thursday.

Sonoma County Snares $ 8 Million to Fight Drought and Climate Change Sonoma County secured an $ 8 million federal grant to fund conservation projects and acquire land development rights that help combat the impacts of drought and climate change in the Russian River watershed, local and federal officials said Friday...

Removal of the more than 500 «I Love NY» signs will begin in April, a federal official said, ending a controversy between the state and the Federal Highway Administration that dates back to 2013.

Federal officials said they would consider a proposal to allow new signs to go up, Federal Highway Administration spokesman Doug Hecox said in an emailed statement Monday after he said he only learned about the state's new tourism campaign from Newsday on Friday.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy men's soccer season this fall has been canceled because of an ongoing U.S. Department of Transportation investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by players, federal officials said.

Federal officials said Blagojevich was looking to sell or trade the position.

Convened by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in partnership with CUNY's Asian American / Asian Research Institute and Hunter College, the event aims to raise awareness about harassment of Asian and Muslim Americans, encourage students, parents and advocates to report such incidents and discuss possible solutions, federal officials said.

The nine defendants will be arraigned in federal court in Central Islip Monday, federal officials said.

A former top manager for the state retirement fund accepted bribes ranging from money to pay for drugs, prostitutes, exotic watches, Paul McCartney concert tickets and a Utah ski trip in exchange for steering $ 2 billion in investments to a pair of Wall Street broker - dealers, federal officials said Wednesday.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday called for Washington to approve a $ 10 billion Medicaid waiver to help save struggling Brooklyn hospitals, even as federal officials said that's not how the money should be spent.

(Reuters)- Carcasses of bottlenose dolphins are washing up on U.S. East Coast beaches from New Jersey to Virginia at a higher than normal pace, with more than 120 dead animals discovered since June, local and federal officials said on Thursday.

Carcasses of bottlenose dolphins are washing up on U.S. East Coast beaches from New Jersey to Virginia at a higher than normal pace, with more than 120 dead animals discovered since June, local and federal officials said on Thursday.

Washington — National education goals could be tentatively set as early as next month to give President Bush the opportunity to include statements on the goals in his State of the Union Message, key Governors and federal officials said last week.

Confident that more of Washington's low - income public school students will apply for the tuition vouchers next year, federal officials said a study would be launched at that time.

Federal officials said that even though incidents of violence have dropped overall in U.S. schools, school leaders still struggle to create environments that are positive and safe.

The companies, American Student List and the National Research Center for College and University Admissions, were charged with having collected information from «millions» of students, who were misled in believing only colleges and universities would get the information, federal officials said.

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Federal officials said that they did not pressure Tennessee to rush, and that the other 10 states that won grants, as well as the District of Columbia, have routinely been given time extensions.

The Los Angeles Unified School District planned to submit its own grant proposal without union backing, which it could not obtain, but a federal official said that omission would disqualify the application.

Federal officials said they did not intend to hide the performance of charter schools, and denied any political motivation for failing to publicly disclose that the data were available.

MF Global, the securities firm led by Jon Corzine, admitted using clients» money as its financial troubles mounted, a federal official says.

Not exact matches

May 2 (Reuters)- A Newark, New Jersey - bound Southwest Airlines Co flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland on Wednesday after a window pane cracked in flight, airline officials and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.

«The regulator always has to worry about finding the right point in that balance,» says a former senior federal official who spoke on background.

May 2 - A Newark, New Jersey - bound Southwest Airlines Co flight made an emergency landing in Cleveland on Wednesday after a window pane cracked in flight, airline officials and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.

Further escalation of trade tensions could raise worries about the global economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday.

In first promise of the official 2015 federal election campaign, Stephen Harper said the Conservatives would increase the apprenticeship job creation tax credit to $ 2,500 from $ 2,000 and expand the program to include a third and fourth year of training.

A federal health ministry official said states were following standard protocols and there was «nothing to worry» about.

The Federal Reserve, long hesitant to raise U.S. interest rates, increasingly faces risks if it waits too much longer so a gradual policy tightening is likely appropriate, a top Fed official said on Friday.

Yves Robins, a senior vice president with Dassault, the French aircraft - maker, said the Conservative government's recent overhaul of the military procurement system means federal officials would be hard - pressed to explain a return to the F - 35 sole - source plan.

Former Federal Trade Commission officials say that Facebook Inc. appears to have breached a 2011 consent agreement to safeguard users» personal information and may be facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

Since January, Canada's federal lobbying commissioner has been investigating whether the fundraiser violated government rules, which say lobbyists can not lobby officials they helped get elected.

In the letter, Frerichs said that this has left the legal cannabis industry «with limited confidence it will not face criminal prosecution» from federal officials.

Nobody's ever seen anything like this,» Trump said of Tropical Storm Harvey as he met with state and federal officials for a briefing at a Corpus Christi fire station.

In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.