DORAL, Florida, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command issued the following news release: MIAMI - The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Escanaba (WMEC 907) offloaded more than 3,400 pounds of cocaine and 4,410 pounds of marijuana with a combined assessed street value of approximately $50 million in Port Everglades, Friday. The Escanaba crew embarked a Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron aircrew, and Law Enforcement Detachment 107 from Coast Guard Tactical Law E  more

DORAL, Florida, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command issued the following news release: MIAMI -- At the direction of U.S. Southern Command, U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft will deliver additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) MaxxPro vehicles to Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti's capital starting Aug. 23, 2024. As part of the U.S. government's ongoing support to Haitian-led security efforts in the country, 24 additional MRAPS will be deliv  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 24-263) on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Florida (AT&T), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet si  more

MIAMI, Florida, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: Today, U.S. Senior District Judge sentenced Alexandra Acosta, a Broward deputy sheriff and SWAT team member, to 4 months' imprisonment after a jury convicted her of one count of conspiracy to defraud the Small Business Administration ("SBA"), two counts of false statements to the SBA, and one count of wire fraud, all in relation to her COVID-1  more

OCALA, Florida, Aug. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest of Lisa Yvette Starkes (52, Ocala) on an indictment charging her with two counts of wire fraud. If convicted, Starkes faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each count and a forfeiture order for $41,452--an amount representing the unlawful proceeds of the offense. The indictment was returned on August 6,  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: TAMPA, Fla. J.A. Croson, a Sorrento, Florida-based plumbing and HVAC contractor, agreed to pay $1.6 million and to provide other equitable relief to settle a race and national origin harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of 17 former Black and Hispanic J.A. Croson employees, the federal agency announced today. In its lawsu  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: The City of Atlanta's former chief financial officer (CFO) was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $177,197.48 and a fine of $10,000 for abusing his position to steal public money and obstruct the IRS. According to court documents, from 2011 to 2018, Jimmie Anthony "Jim" Beard, 60, of Fort Lauderdale, Fl  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota issued the following news release: Anthony Eugene Moulder and Abdou-Rahmane Diallo have been sentenced to 120 months and 90 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a $300 million nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable victims, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, Moulder, 63, of Fort Myers, Florida, owned and operated   more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each measuring about 46 1/2 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13 1/2 feet (4.1 meters) high, the arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. They have to be large so they can soak up as much sunlight as possible during the space  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) identical dual spacecraft are inspected and processed on dollies in a high bay of the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, Aug. 22. As the first multi-spacecraft orbital science mission to Mars, ESCAPADE's twin orbiters will take simultaneous observations from different locations around the planet and  more