WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP) to resolve the United States' claims that MDSP's hiring process for state troopers violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Specifically, the United States alleges that MDSP uses a written test that discriminates against Black candidates and a physical fitne  more

GREENBELT, Maryland, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release on Oct. 1, 2024: Today, federal inmate Jonathan Henry, age 32, was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release and restitution in the amount of $1,894,971 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, relating to the submission of fraudulent CARES Act unemployment insurance benefits. Henry's co-defenda  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: Precision Toxicology, doing business as Precision Diagnostics, has agreed to pay $27 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, and for providing free items to physicians who agreed to refer expensive laboratory   more

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Army Forces Command issued the following news: By Walter T. Ham IV COLUMBUS, Ohio - The U.S. military's premier Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command trained Sept. 16 - 20 with nearly 300 personnel from 52 Federal, state, local and private industry partners during "Exercise Toxic Buckeye" in Ohio and West Virginia. Army civilian employees from the U.S. Army 20th CBRNE Command conducted an accident-response exerci  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news: Newborns undergoing withdrawal after opioid exposure in the womb were more likely than non-opioid-exposed infants to be readmitted to the hospital within 90 days of discharge, according to a study funded in part by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Opio  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP) to resolve the United States' claims that MDSP's hiring process for state troopers violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Specifically, the United States alleges that MDSP uses a writt  more