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Military criticized for lack of medals database

March 1, 2012 5:43 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the Defense Department for failing to create a searchable database of medals recipients, a potential solution to identifying and prosecuting people who falsely claim to have received the honors. Witnesses from the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a privately run medals database joined... more »
Health secretary criticized for Medicaid contract

June 14, 2011 9:29 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein has acknowledged that his office rewrote a solicitation for bids for a lucrative Medicaid contract in a way that made Greenstein's former employer eligible to do the work. Greenstein's agency is proposing to hire the former employer, CNSI,... more »
Transocean President Sharply Criticized Federal Government

June 22, 2010 11:35 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The owner of the offshore rig involved in the massive Gulf oil spill sharply criticized the U.S. government's six-month ban on deepwater drilling Tuesday. Transocean Ltd. president Steven Newman told reporters at an oil industry conference in London that there were things President Barack Obama's administration... more »