WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation issued the following news: On August 27, 2024 the ACHP executed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for Maryland Offshore Wind Project. This MOA represented the tenth Section 106 agreement developed for commercial-scale offshore wind energy projects approved under the Biden Administration. These ten projects represent the potential for more than 15 gigawatts of clean energy from offshore wind - equivalent to half of the capacity   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it filed a complaint and proposed consent decree in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland resolving allegations that the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation (Johns Hopkins) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying people with disabilities equal access to medical care by excluding their necessary support pe  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 11, 2024: A Maryland man pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for helping acquaintances and their businesses procure and continue work on subcontracts with the IRS. According to court documents, Satbir Thukral, 62, of Germantown, worked for the IRS as a computer engineer and supervised various information technology contracts. In September 2018, Company 1 began working on   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland posted the following news release: The Justice Department announced today that it filed a complaint and proposed consent decree in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to resolve allegations that the Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation (Johns Hopkins) violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying people with disabilities equal access to medical care by excluding thei  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: A Maryland man pleaded guilty to accepting cash bribes in exchange for helping acquaintances and their businesses procure and continue work on subcontracts with the IRS. The guilty plea was announced by Erek L. Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland; and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Departm  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news on Sept. 12, 2024: More than 5.6 million people in the United States live with limb loss or limb difference. But until recently, clinicians, researchers, hospitals, and others providing support to this community did not have a comprehensive resource of clinical data to help guide decision making and care. In 20  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following news release: ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Sept. 12, 2024) Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro hosted the first-ever Department of the Navy Foreign Area Officers Summit at the U.S. Naval Academy's Mahan Hall, Sept. 12, 2024. The summit provided the secretary with an opportunity to interact with FAOs stationed all over the world, in addition to academy midshipmen, allowing him to share his priorities concerning global engagement, strategic co  more

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, Sept. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Four people were sentenced for methamphetamine trafficking in the Northern District of West Virginia. Terry Lee Mason, Jr., 37, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 324 months for the possession with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of crystal methamphetamine. Robert Joseph Wilson, III, 38, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced to  more