Newswires

Newswires RSS Get our newsletter

Sept. 28– GREENCASTLE– Nine saves and six defensive stops weren’t enough to slow down Chambersburg’s boys soccer team. “Their goalie did a great job, but we’re pretty dangerous,” Trojan coach Guy Furfaro said. Blue Devil keeper Josh Ehko made some timely stops, including a beautiful diving save of a Rene Quintanilla shot late in the first half.

Sept. 28– The Anniston City Council appoints the majority of Regional Medical Center’s board members, but as of this past week one can also steer city policy. It’s a decision that comes after a recent series of challenges for the Anniston- based hospital, from a public fight over payments for services with insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama to decreases…

The U.S. Department of Health& Human Services issued the text of the following speech by Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell:. Alice, for those who don’t know, was the founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office and the first female Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Perhaps that’s why, as I aspired to follow in her footsteps, I felt the need to go…

The National Athletic Trainers’ Association issued the following news release:. The National Athletic Trainers’ Association formally welcomed four new board members at its recent 65th annual convention in Indianapolis. They include Tory R. Lindley, MA, ATC; Chris Mathewson, MSS, ATC, CSCS; Carolyn R. Peters, MA, ATC, CSCS; and Timothy S. Weston, MEd, ATC.

Sept. 28– Idaho’s state health insurance exchange, YourHealthIdaho, has named a new executive director: Pat Kelly, the former finance director for the exchange who was named interim executive director in July. Kelly replaces Amy Dowd, who left in July to head New Mexico’s state health insurance exchange. He is the former chief financial officer of Transform Solar,…

All holders of and applicants for a specific source material license under Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 40, ” Domestic Licensing of Source Material.” All holders of and applicants for a construction permit or an operating license for a nonpower reactor or a medical isotope production facility under 10 CFR Part 50, ” Domestic Licensing of…

Sept. 28– Earlier this year, the Daviess County Bar Association hosted a free legal consultation clinic at the Daviess County Public Library on Frederica Street. Although bar association officials were unsure about how successful the event would be, Bar president Julie Gordon said the lawyers involved were pleased. Clay Wilkey, an Owensboro attorney who…

Sept. 28– BARRON– A 24- year-old Virginia woman was arrested Saturday morning after she traveled the wrong way on U.S. 53 at U.S. 8 in Barron County. Gabrielle M. Fuller, Sterling, Va., was stopped by a trooper around 4 a.m. as she was driving a vehicle southbound in the northbound lanes of U.S. 53. According to online court records, bench warrants were issued for Fuller in Eau…

On Dec. 11, First Tennessee Bank will close the bank branch that was first built on Brainerd Road in 1946.. Two weeks earlier on Nov. 29, Northwest Georgia Bank will close three of its branches, including one in Fort Oglethorpe it has operated for 40 years. Those closings follow the shut- down this spring of a SunTrust Bank office in St. Elmo and FSG Bank offices in…

Sept. 28– What do 674 University of New Hampshire students, 371 Granite State veterans and 393 New Hampshire residents with ties to Butler University share in common? “We get a frighteningly large number of these,” said James Boffetti, a senior assistant attorney general and chief of the Consumer Protection and Anti-trust Bureau. In the case involving UNH students,…

“There is a limited amount of time to make a decision about how to receive your Medicare,” said owner Susan Polk. “Every Medicare beneficiary, unless on a retiree group plan, should review his or her Medicare plan during the October through December time frame.” The Initial Enrollment Period, according to Polk, starts three months prior to getting Medicare which is…

Sept. 28– One of the latest trends in the restaurant industry– class-action lawsuits over allegedly illegal tip pools that enrich owners while cheating employees out of their wages– has hit the Myrtle Beach area. It’s an issue that has spurred dozens of lawsuits nationwide over the past two years and is a big reason the U.S. Department of Labor is asking for an extra…

Sept. 28– ATLANTIC CITY– At 66, Audrey Williams is looking for a job to pay the property taxes on the Northside duplex she has owned for 14 years. Atlantic City– already with among the highest real estate taxes in the country– approved a 32 percent tax rate increase in July that went into effect Aug. 1– the first tax payments are due between Nov. 1-10. “I was flabbergasted,”…

Sept. 28– Culpeper Fire and Rescue Association President Anthony Clatterbuck told the Board of Supervisors on Saturday that his volunteer members have begrudgingly agreed to consider endorsing “soft billing” for rescue calls. That amount, combined with the $50,000 the county’s nine companies already get from an 8- cent fire and rescue tax levy, would come…

And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. recently reported that the number of branches and bank offices in the United States has declined by more than 3,000 since its peak in 2009.. Union First Market Bank vice president and director of corporate communications Bill Cimino said that Union has also seen the abrupt shift in the industry. Union has multiple…

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following order:. Caryl Trewyn Lenahan, formerly a registered representative of Investors Capital Corp., seeks review of a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority disciplinary action. The complaint was filed in September of 2011, and dated from Lenahan’s association from 1997 to 2009 with Investors…

The New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance today announced that the Rockland County Department of Social Services is being recognized for having the most improved child support enforcement unit in New York State for 2013.. Rockland County is being honored as most improved among medium-sized counties for its success in establishing…