Nebraska Receives $6.5 million in Federal Funds to Combat Opioid Misuse

Strategies employers can consider to understand and combat opioid abuse and misuse

How can employers prepare for and address opioid abuse and misuse?

How Northern Kentucky Will Use The $67.5 Million Federal Transportation Grant

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao visited Boone County Friday afternoon to talk about the $67.5 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America

What $7.1 Million in Federal Funds Will Do at CVG Airport

The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport received $7.1 million in Airport Improvement Program grants.

TxDOT Awarded $20 Million in Federal Funds to Improve Rural Transit, Benefit Commuters,...

The Texas Department of Transportation today was awarded more than $20 million in federal TIGER* grants to improve transportation services for rural populations.

Ruppersberger Announces $10 Million in Federal Funds to Ease Traffic Congestion at Fort Meade

(Timonium, MD) – Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger announced today $10 million in federal funds to widen Maryland 175 at Fort Meade, relieving base-related traffic and creating quality construction jobs. The project will expand the 2-lane, undivided roadway to six divided lanes complete with a trail, sidewalks and on-road bicycle facilities into Fort Meade.

700 ft. of I-85 to be removed and replaced: $10 Million in Federal Funds approved from US DOT

ATLANTA - Georgia DOT Commissioner Russell R. McMurry, along with state and local officials briefed the public on developments in the ongoing efforts to repair and ...

How Index Funds Can Combat This Hidden Cost

Missouri gets $10 Million Federal Grant to Fight Opioid Addiction

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The federal government says it will provide states nearly half a billion dollars for prevention and treatment programs to help the fight against opioids.

Companies reach $260 million deal to settle opioids lawsuit hours before federal trial

CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation's three dominant drug distributors and a big drugmaker have reached a $260 million deal to settle a lawsuit related to the opioid crisis just as the first federal trial over the crisis was due to begin Monday.

What Federal Assistance for Cellphones Has Meant for Millions

Federal regulators in the process of limiting program's reach.

Pittsburgh gets $10.9 million in federal transportation grant

Pittsburgh said it will use the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act grant to install adaptive traffic signals at key intersections. 

Up to $10 Million Available for Federal Purchase of Lamb

The American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) requested a Section 32 lamb purchase in an effort to strengthen a market that has faltered since late 2014, and to prompt stronger prices for lambs at the farm and ranch gate. In response to that the USDA opened a bid process for 640,000 pounds of lamb r

EPA approves $100 million in federal funding for Flint

The Environmental Protection Agency approved $100 million in federal emergency funding Friday for the city of Flint.

Opioid misuse often starts at the hospital. Here's how providers are fighting back.

To combat the opioid misuse epidemic, some hospitals are holding off on traditional, opioid-based methods of pain relief in favor of non-addictive alternatives—and are discovering some unintended benefits in the process.

Teen says there's a way to save the federal government millions

A simple change to government publications could potentially save taxpayers millions of dollars, and one Pittsburgh teen is trying to make it happen

Why the federal government is forgiving millions of dollars of student loans, explained

Students at now-bankrupt Corinthian Colleges could get their loans forgiven.

Federal small business loans top $44.8 million in Vermont

Vermont Business Magazine The Small Business Administration supported $44,780,792 in loans to Vermont small businesses from October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2018, the US federal government’s fiscal year. Vermont increased its loan amount by 11 percent compared to fiscal year 2017 when it guaranteed $40,341,365 million in loans. Of that 16 percent supported Vermont beer, spirits and cider.

Federal agents discover $20 million in cash hidden in box spring

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. -- The U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts has released a photo showing $20 million that was found hidden in a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment earlier this month.
A judge on Monday ruled 28-year-old Cleber Rene Rizerio of Brazil is a flight risk and ordered him held on a charge of conspiring to commit money laundering.

Miramar man conned his way to $30 million — and a stretch in federal prison

Miramar’s Navin Xavier pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of wire fraud after suckering Ponzi scheme investors for $29 million and the State of South Carolina for $1.5 million.