Yuma News
AWC Healthcare Programs to Present Open House
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Yuma, Arizona - Healthcare programs at Arizona Western College will be holding an open house for the community on Tuesday, December 11.
Paying Social Security Tax Doesn’t Increase Benefit
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- Written by AMAC Certified Social Security Advisor Russell Gloor AMAC Certified Social Security Advisor Russell Gloor
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Washington, DC - Dear Rusty: If I started drawing Social Security benefits in May of 2007 at age 62 and continued to work and pay Social Security taxes to date, can I expect an adjustment in my benefits? ~ Working Senior
NIH-funded tissue chips rocket to International Space Station
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- Written by NCATS NCATS
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Cape Canaveral, Florida - When traveling in space, astronauts experience physiological changes normally associated with aging, such as bone loss, muscle deterioration and altered immune systems. When the astronauts return to Earth, the changes often reverse.
Mescalero Apache Man Sentenced for Assaulting a Federal Officer
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Las Cruces, New Mexico - Gerald Castillo, Jr., 30, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, New Mexico, was sentenced Monday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, to three years probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for assaulting a federal officer.
Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to Almost Four Years in Prison for Role in $2.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
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- Written by YNN YNN
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Miami, Florida - An owner of a now-defunct Miami pharmacy was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for his participation in a scheme that caused Medicare to pay $2.5 million in false and fraudulent claims for prescription drugs that were never purchased.
Man Convicted of Terrorism Offenses After Trying to Join ISIS
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- Written by DOJ DOJ
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
Cincinnati, Ohio - Laith Waleed Alebbini, 28, of Dayton, Ohio, was convicted Thursday for attempting and conspiring to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
Drug Maker Actelion Agrees to Pay $360 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Liability
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- Written by DOJ DOJ
- Published: 09 December 2018 09 December 2018
San Francisco, California - Pharmaceutical company Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (Actelion), based in South San Francisco, has agreed to pay $360 million to resolve claims that it illegally used a foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of thousands of Medicare patients taking Actelion’s pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs, in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today.