MOBILE, Alabama, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release: Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch, both formerly pain management doctors practicing in Mobile, Alabama, were resentenced to 252 months and 240 months, respectively. In 2017, a jury convicted Ruan and Couch of numerous offenses connected to their former medical practice, Physicians Pain Specialists of Alabama, and their related pharmacy C&R Pharmacy. The jury foun  more

MOBILE, Alabama, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release: Gentiva, successor to Kindred at Home, has agreed to pay $19.428 million to resolve allegations that Kindred at Home and related entities (Kindred) knowingly submitted false claims and knowingly retained overpayments for hospice services provided to patients who were ineligible to receive hospice benefits under various federal health care programs. Gentiva's hospic  more

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama, July 18 -- The Army Space and Missile Defense Command issued the following news: By Jason Cutshaw, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command One U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command leader assumed a new position to serves as the Army's centralized manager for capability development associated with strategic missile defense. Col. Thomas V. Petrini accepted the position as the Space and Missile Defense Center of Excellence's Army Capabilities Manager for Stra  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, July 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Cybersecurity, computer science, math and critical thinking skills at play in race to escape College students enhance skills and interest during intense cybersecurity competition. * * * After hours of cool-headed puzzling and problem-solving, Hunter Wittenborn, a student from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, emerged as champion of the U.S. Depar  more