AIKEN, South Carolina, March 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release: The liquid waste contractor at the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management's Savannah River Site (SRS) is educating workers on everyday workplace hazards with a hands-on, peer-led mobile field course. The new course, "School of Hazards," is encouraging safe practices by immersing construction craft employees in a mock-up of hazardous scenarios. The outdoor o  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: The Internal Revenue Service announced today that almost 940,000 people across the nation have unclaimed refunds for tax year 2020 but face a May 17 deadline to submit their tax returns. The IRS estimates more than $1 billion in refunds remain unclaimed because people haven't filed their 2020 tax returns yet. The average median refund is $932 for 2020, and  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: A newly unsealed federal indictment charges two individuals for their roles in a conspiracy to buy and sell stolen high-end vehicles worth millions of dollars, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The defendants are also charged with gun offenses. Robert M. DeWitt, Special Agent in Cha  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The FBI issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Director Christopher Wray has named Robert A. Eikhoff as the special agent in charge of the Jackson Field Office in Mississippi. Mr. Eikhoff most recently served as a section chief in the Operational Technology Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. Eikhoff joined the FBI as a special agent in 2004 and was assigned to the Columbia Field Office in South Carolina, where he investigated public corru  more