ROCKFORD, Illinois, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: A Chicago health care company and its former owners will pay nearly $2 million to the United States and the States of Illinois and Indiana to resolve a civil lawsuit arising from the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The settlement resolves allegations that KAREFIRST MANAGEMENT, an independent nurse practitioner group, deve  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: A wide range of innovative products, from biomedical implants to aerospace composites, come from research in materials informatics (MI) -- the combination of machine learning, artificial intelligence and computational methodologies with materials science. As industries recognize the potential of MI to enhance rapid materials production, researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation Re  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, June 18 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news: Illinois will boost reimbursement for critical health services supporting vulnerable children and families, thanks to a new law led by State Senator Omar Aquino aimed at strengthening the Medicaid system. "In Illinois, we are advancing equity by investing in the residents and health care providers who deserve a better system that meets their needs," said Aquino (D-Chicago). "These much-needed rate increa  more

PEORIA, Illinois, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: A grand jury today indicted a Morton, Illinois man, Aaron Rossi ("Rossi"), 40, on six counts of healthcare fraud, one count of mail fraud, and four counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding the State of Illinois and public and private health insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars during the COVID-19 pandemic. The indictme  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, contractor who scammed victims of the 2020 derecho was sentenced on June 11, 2024, to four years in federal prison. Scott Gregory Adkins, age 48, received the prison term after a February 1, 2024, guilty plea to one count of wire fraud. In a plea agreement, Adkins admitted that, from December 2020 through March 2022, he devised and perpetrated  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 17, 2024: A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to engaging in an extensive, multi-year conspiracy to fraudulently obtain over $54.7 million in loans and to fraudulently acquire multifamily and commercial properties. According to court documents, between 2016 and 2022, Aron Puretz, 53, conspired with others to deceive lenders into issuing multifamily and commercial mortgage loans. Puretz and his co-  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 19 -- The Wisconsin Historical Society issued the following news release: The Wisconsin Historical Society announces the listing of the Mojave Shipwreck in the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 2024. The barkentine is located in Lake Michigan, near Sheboygan County. Mojave is a barkentine constructed in 1863 by master shipwright Steward McDonald in Detroit, Michigan, and operated in the Great Lakes through the grain and coal trades for only one year. On N  more

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following media advisory: * * * Teams from 25+ states, D.C., and American Samoa gather at three regional convenings to support efforts to improve teacher recruitment and retention by increasing teacher pay, promoting educator diversity, and expanding high-quality and affordable pathways * * * On June 13-14, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) will host the second of three Regional Convenings to Support State Action  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, June 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Insights could help foster electric vehicle batteries with longer driving range and lower cost * * * Scientists have discovered the culprit behind the performance fade in nickel-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. The team's new analysis method was key to the discovery. The first generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles has been a   more