U.S. Attorney’s Office January 09, 2012                          Middle District of Florida (813) 274-6000 TAMPA, FL—A 25-year-old resident of Pinellas Park, Fla., has been charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack locations in Tampa with a vehicle bomb, assault rifle, and other explosives, announced Robert E. O’Neill, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida; [...]

Less service for more money appears to be the mantra these days for many companies.  MSN is just one of the many commercial entities reducing services to subscribers. MSN recently sent out the letter below to subscribers. Dear Customer, There are changes coming March 1, 2012 to your Verizon with MSN Premium and associated features. [...]

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(Washington, D.C.) – The Government Accountability Project (GAP) today praised unanimous action by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) approving S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). This long-overdue legislation would overhaul the ineffective Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA). The Senate re-introduced this legislation in April. The WPEA was blocked from passage [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Bank of America’s decision to impose a $5 a month fee on customers who make debit card purchases stirred the pot of consumer anger, with some customers vowing to seek alternatives. “I am leaving BoA. This was the last straw,” wrote Alan, a reader who posted comments on a ConsumerAffairs.com story over the weekend. [...]

Office of Public Affairs (202) 514-2007/TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON—Two Miami-area residents pleaded guilty late yesterday in U.S. District Court in Miami for their participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FBI. Maritza Vidal, 44, and Richard Diaz, [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that the overall number of older adults living in poverty has increased. Even more significant is the number of seniors who have experienced an increase in economic insecurity—or those simply living on the edge. Seniors with incomes below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com You can run but you can’t hide. Not easily anyway. OnStar is notifying its customers that it keeps a record of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped cars, even after drivers discontinue their monthly service. Why? It might find a buyer for the data. Adam Denison, a spokesman for the General Motors subsidiary, said [...]

African honey bees, often referred to as killer bees, arrived in the Tampa Bay area several years ago and are here to stay. Africanized bees arrived in the United States in 1990 by way of Hidalgo, Texas. The bees were descendants from a group of Tanzanian queen bees accidentally released in Brazil, 1957. Biologist Warwick [...]

ConsumerAffairs.com Explorer users don’t take kindly to the study In a survey that has set off heated conversations in the blogosphere, a Canadian research firm has concluded that consumers who use the Internet Explorer web browser have, on average, lower IQs than those who use Firefox, Chrome or other browsers. AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting Co conducted [...]