ORLANDO, Florida, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * Employers failed to ensure ground conditions were adequate to support the crane * * * Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that a Tampa-area construction contractor could have prevented a 37-year-old aerial lift operator from suffering fatal injuries after being struck by a boom as a crane tipped over during work on an Orlando high  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release: Hundreds of job seekers recently attended Miami-Dade County's 305 Second Chance Job & Resource Expo at the Main Library in downtown Miami and United States Attorney's Office staff were present to provide helpful community resources. Many job seekers previously had been in prison. That is a major impediment to landing a job with a good company, but couple tha  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: A federal jury in Miami convicted the former Comptroller General of Ecuador yesterday for his role in a multimillion-dollar international bribery and money laundering scheme. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between 2010 to 2015, Carlos Ramon Polit Faggioni, 73, solicited and received over $10 million in bribe p  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: An indictment was unsealed today in the Southern District of Florida charging three men for their alleged roles in an approximately $36 million health care fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering scheme that involved submitting false and fraudulent claims for COVID-19 testing to health care benefit programs, including Medicare and the Health  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 24 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: Kristen M. Foslid, a 14-year attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), was appointed regional attorney for EEOC's Miami District effective April 21, the federal agency announced today. As regional attorney, Foslid will lead the district's legal unit, conducting trial litigation and providing legal advice and other support to district staff re  more

TAMPA, Florida, April 24 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on April 23, 2024, at a campaign event at Hillsborough Community College, Dale Mabry campus: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) Thank you. Please, sit down. Before I begin, I want to say something to the kids here. Your mom and dad, they owe you big for being here. (Laughter.) So -- (The President addresses children in the audience.) (Inaudible.) Where's one of my team? You know the deal   more

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on April 12, 2024: * * * President Joe Biden Announces Student Debt Cancellation for 21,280 More Borrowers in Florida, Pursuing Every Path Available to Cancel Student Debt - New announcement brings debt cancellation to over 180,130 people in Florida under Biden-Harris Administration Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more borrowers across the country will get their student debt cancelled, including 21  more