WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: NEW YORK ACARE HHC, Inc., doing business as Four Seasons Licensed Home Health Care Agency, a Brooklyn-based company supplying home health aides, will pay $400,000 and furnish other relief to settle a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Four Seasons routine  more

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 25 -- The New York State Department of Health issued the following news release on Sept. 24, 2024: * * * New York's First Human Case of EEE Since 2015 in Ulster County Has Died State Issues Declaration of Imminent Threat to Public Health and Urges New Yorkers to Follow Recommendations to Reduce Risk of Mosquito-Borne Illness Governor Activated Multiple Agencies and Increased Coordination Between State and Local Health Officials Measures Include Mosquito Spraying, Mor  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 25 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release: The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that a project to construct a new boardwalk and bulkhead at Roger Wheeler State Beach in Narragansett has begun - the project will feature a new concrete boardwalk to provide access from the parking area along the stretch of the beach. The boardwalk will feature new shade structures, sidewalks  more