Sentences with phrase «federal officials announced»

After federal officials announced on May 26 the halting of a trial probing whether Abbott Laboratories» formulation of the B vitamin niacin can help prevent heart disease and strokes, scientists and physicians were left with an immediate follow - on question.

This week, federal officials announced the launch of a formal investigation into the accident.

Three members of the NYPD License Division have been moved out of their positions as part of an ongoing corruption probe into the department, the NYPD and federal officials announced.

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The Toronto Financial Services Alliance and AdvantageBC today announced a partnership with Ontario, B.C. and federal government officials to promote a Canadian trading centre for the redback.

At the end of 2016, federal housing officials announced they would be increasing loan limits for most counties in the U.S..

At the end of 2015, Fed officials announced they would raise the federal funds rate for the first time in years.

Update: Toward the end of 2017, federal housing officials announced they would be increasing the baseline loan limit for 2018, nationwide, in response to rising home prices.

Federal Reserve officials referred to an improved labor market last week as they announced the end to a third round of quantitative easing while repeating a pledge to keep interest rates low for a «considerable time.»

At the end of 2017, federal housing officials announced that they would increase conforming loan limits for 2018 in response to rising home values.

At the end of last year, federal housing officials announced that they would raise the official loan limits for FHA, VA, and conventional / conforming mortgage loans.

At the end of 2016, federal housing officials announced they would raise loan limits for Los Angeles County.

A top Federal Reserve official announced his immediate resignation after admitting he was one of the sources behind the biggest leaks in the US central bank's history.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced continued widespread support from federal, state and county legislators as well as other former and current elected officials, community and business leaders for current plans to build a new bridge to replace the Tappan Zee.

State and Federal officials were in Oneida County on Thursday to assess storm damage, Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. announced today.

NEW YORK, NY — Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than $ 300,000 in bribes and extortion payments that were paid to his son, ADAM SKELOS, in exchange for DEAN SKELOS's official acts.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, along with other state and local officials, gathered at Buffalo's Outer Harbor Monday to announce federal legislation aimed at preventing invasive species from entering the Great Lakes.

Lancman and the New York Democratic Lawyers Council joined together with federal, state and local elected officials to announce a mobilization effort to protect the vote in swing states as well as swing districts within New York State.

On Friday, shortly after Working Families officials announced the conclusion of the federal investigation, New Yorkers for Growth, a conservative group, sought to keep the pressure on Mr. Cuomo.

Federal corruption charges were announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a senior state official and six other people, in a blow to the governor's innermost circle and a repudiation of the way his prized upstate economic development programs were managed.

Charles Lavine, at a news conference in Mineola on Monday, May 8, 2017, announced legislation that would prohibit elected officials or political candidates under federal indictment from using campaign funds to pay their legal expenses.

Robert Clifford, a spokesman for Spota, who announced Thursday he is leaving office after his indictment on federal charges involving a cover - up of a former police official's assault of a suspect, said the district attorney's office «has not received federal subpoenas related to the payments you cite.»

Federal aviation officials, battered by complaints that bureaucratic hurdles are preventing industry from realizing the economic benefits of drones, announced they are streamlining rules to expedite permits to fly small, commercial unmanned aircraft.

A police official has been reassigned and a detective has been fired amid an extensive federal inquiry into municipal corruption, the NYPD announced.

Three more counties — two of them in the downstate region — were added to the federal government's list of official disaster areas, making them eligible to receive cleanup aid, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

At 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins local elected officials and law enforcement to announce federal steps he is taking to combat swatting in the Middletown School District, which has received at least 13 threats since June, Maple Hill Elementary School, 491 County Rd. 78, Middletown.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy announced he intends to issue an executive order prohibiting anyone on the federal government's terror watch lists from buying a firearm in the state — assuming state officials are allowed access to those lists.

The changes, which administration officials announced in a call with anti-abortion groups Friday, are aimed at chipping away at Planned Parenthood's federal funding.

The A.G. announced the state has joined a federal lawsuit that New York City officials brought against the high - speed mail carrier in December.

Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials on Friday announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business — this time on a massive new transportation revenue bond.

State officials announced Friday evening that they will install new signs this summer and will consult with the federal government on the designs.

DOT officials announced on Feb. 2 that all of the remaining signs would be taken down to make way for a new tourism campaign and signage — a day after Highway Administration acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT and New York State Thruway Authority officials, saying the federal government would withhold an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it gives New York annually for bridge and highway improvements.

Despite revelations last week that the governor's officials have steered state housing bond work to his campaign contributors in apparent defiance of federal pay - to - play rules, New York state officials announced they are giving those same donors even more lucrative business.

At 10:30 a.m., Rep. Tom Suozzi will host a tele - press conference call to announce the introduction of his bipartisan bill, the Close Official Acts Loophole (COAL) Act, in response to the overturning of federal corruption convictions of two ex-state legislative leaders.

On August 25, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced $ 400 million in federal Race to the Top education grants to New Jersey would not be funded due to a clerical error in the state's application made by an unidentified mid-level state official.

In the one month since Nixon entered the race, Cuomo has put an end to the IDC, said «the facts have changed» about legal recreational marijuana, announced plans to restore voting rights to felons on parole in New York, killed an offshore natural gas pipeline that had been in the works, and issued an executive order to prevent federal immigration official from state buildings.

Dan Rinaldo of the Federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking program speaks during a news conference, during which officials announced a new initiative that unites police and volunteers to arrange help for local opioid addicts.

Niagara County will host a center whose employees will work with small businesses to help them win federal contracts, officials announced Thursday.

We recently announced an event that will explore how hostile government officials at the federal, state and local level have become to the press, and by extension, the public's right to know.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be facing federal or state criminal charges for fundraising activities tied to his now defunct Campaign for One New York, officials announced on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Erin Cole, an Army veteran and former state and federal official who two months ago became the first Democrat to announce plans to challenge Rep. Chris Collins next year, withdrew from the race Monday.

In October federal health officials announced that antidepressants must carry a black box label — the Food and Drug Administration's strongest warning — indicating the drugs can cause suicidal behavior in children and teenagers.

Announced by federal officials on 17 October, the policy halts new federal funding for so - called gain - of - function (GOF) studies that make a pathogen more transmissible in mammals or more pathogenic.

In coordination with the Blueprint's release, Federal officials also announced a number of new commitments to help achieve the Blueprint's goals....

Federal officials have cleared a second clinical trial of a human embryonic stem - cell treatment, a company announced Monday, for a progressive blindness syndrome affecting young people.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.

Said the Inquirer, «At the time, the federal grant was announced with much fanfare — the union would be the district's partner, officials said, ensuring the plan would succeed where others failed.

On the eve of President Barack Obama's first State of the Union speech last week, officials in a South Carolina town announced funding for a crumbling school the president had cited in a speech nearly a year earlier as an example of how the federal government should help with school construction.

In awarding grants for homelessness programs, federal housing officials will give a «competitive advantage to providers who keep families together and strengthen the family structure,» Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry G. Cisneros said in announcing the policy last month.

Officials of the Vermont Department of Education have announced an independent audit of the department following the discovery that between $ 300,000 and $ 400,000 in federal funds is missing.

They do not complain when federal or state or city officials announce plans to test children in kindergarten or even pre-kindergarten.