Washington, DC - GEO Specialty Chemicals Inc., an Ohio company, has pleaded guilty for its role in a conspiracy to eliminate competition involving contracts to supply liquid aluminum sulfate to municipalities and pulp and paper manufacturers in the United States, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

New York - A two count indictment unsealed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court charged six people with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and/or money laundering.  The indictments follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), United States Postal Inspection Service, Office of Inspector General (OIG).

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah presented Wells Fargo with a Champion of Rural Housing award as part of USDA's observance of National Homeownership Month.

Washington, DC - The National Park Service will once again host the annual celebration of Independence Day on the National Mall, the nation’s most important civic space and home to more than a dozen memorials that commemorate great Americans and significant events in our nation’s history. Events on the National Mall this year include the Smithsonian Folklife Festival; a concert with the United States Army Band Downrange at the Sylvan Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument; and one of the largest fireworks displays in the nation.

Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. announced 10 winners in the $200,000 Career and Technical Education (CTE) Makeover Challenge at the Champions of Change for Making event in Washington, D.C. The Challenge called for high schools to create models for transforming classrooms or available spaces in high schools into places where students have access to the tools to design, build, and innovate, ultimately strengthening next-generation career and technical schools.

Washington, DC - More than three-quarters of American companies of all sizes report that the cumulative effect of financial regulations adopted over the past six years is making it harder for them to access the financial services they need, a new U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC) report released today found.