Attorney General Holder lays a wreath at Wounded Knee Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to Rapid City and Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota to have a robust government-to-government discussion with administration officials and tribal leaders on matters of tribal safety and domestic violence. Full Article…

GRANITE CITY — At the Legacy Golf Course, players have access to just about everything found at other links in the metro-east except paved cart paths. And if that’s important, it might be good news that nearly $200,000 in public funds from two sources, including a $97,653 county grant, will be used to lay down [...]

This summer an important partnership to implement the Attorney General’s Anti-Violence Strategy was launched on the grounds of the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville, West Virginia. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II and I announced the three main components of the strategy, known as Project POWER – Preventing Offenses of Weapons, Enforcement and Reentry. [...]

All Americans deserve to be protected from environmental health hazards. That is why last week, the Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House Council on Environmental Quality announced an agreement and signed a “Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898” (EJ MOU). As part of this agreement, federal [...]