FTC and National Cyber Security Alliance Offer Safe Shopping Practices Experts are predicting that consumers will spend more online this holiday season than ever. Consumers can easily avoid crowds by shopping online, but if theyre not careful they may run…

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Samuel W. Bodman has announced that the Department will invest $21.7 million in next generation photovoltaic (PV) technology to help accelerate the widespread use of advanced solar power. The 25 projects…

WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 115,478 taxpayers who are due refund checks worth about $110 million after the checks were returned as undeliverable. The refund checks, averaging about $953, can be claimed as soon as taxpayers update…

WASHINGTON, DC The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finalized a new rule designed to mitigate conditions that put airliners at risk for wire failures, smoke and fire. The final rule greatly enhances the safety requirements for design, installation and maintenance…

Securing the Border · DHS has completed more than 76 miles of pedestrian fence for a total of more than 150 miles of pedestrian fence and 115 miles of vehicle fence on the Southwest border. · DHS plans to build…

In the first prosecution of its kind in the nation, a well-known member of the botnet underground was charged with using botnets armies of compromised computers to steal the identities of victims across the country by extracting information from their…

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, has announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. About 1,200 units of…

ATLANTA -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $219,800 in penalties against Tires Into Recycled Energy & Supplies Inc., Jackson, Ga., for willful, serious and other violations of federal workplace safety standards. OSHA…

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- A Queens-based contractor faces $30,850 in proposed fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for a cave-in hazard at a Bronx jobsite. FXR Construction Corp., doing business as DEV Construction, of…

WASHINGTON An immigration judge in Chicago has ordered Chicago resident Osyp Firishchak removed from the United States for his role in a Ukrainian police unit that assisted in the annihilation of over 100,000 Jews in Nazi-occupied Lviv, Poland (now in…

R.S. Audley Inc. cited for 6th excavation safety violation in past 5 years CONCORD, N.H. - A Bow, N.H., contractor's alleged failure to provide adequate cave-in protection for employees working in a nine-foot deep drainage pipe excavation on Route 11…

WASHINGTONA Leominster, Mass., man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to a misdemeanor charge for his role in unlawfully killing and transporting a black bear (Ursus americanus) across state lines in violation of the Lacey Act, the…