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News Tipoffs - Michigan Editors Newsletter for Tuesday August 27, 2024 ( 3 items )  

149th Fighter Wing takes part in Operation Northern Cactus
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Operation Northern Cactus is a joint training exercise that takes members of the 149th Fighter Wing, headquartered at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, to an austere environment to participate in a simulated deployment exercise. Members of the 149th FW took part in the joint training exercise at the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in n  more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: LZ Experiment Sets New Record in Search for Dark Matter
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Key Takeaways * With 280 days of data, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has made a world-leading search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in areas no experiment has pro  more

W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Cabell County Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization
HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: Walter Alvin Cremeans, 57, of Culloden, was sentenced today to five years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Cremeans admitted to his role in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing large quantities of meth  more