WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2024: Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed two Acting U.S. Trustees, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees announced today. Under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 585(a), the Attorney General may fill U.S. Trustee vacancies by appointing an Acting U.S. Trustee. Jonas V. Anderson has been appointed as the Acting U.S. Trustee for Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington (Region 18). Anderson repl  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: In 2014, an Oregon State University autonomous seaglider survey(link is external) in the Mariana Archipelago heard a new sound: a mechanical-sounding whale vocalization. They called it a "Biotwang(link is external)." Without visual observers to identify the source of the sound, they guessed that it might be made by a baleen whale, but could not determine the species. In 2018, NOAA scientists w  more

MEDFORD, Oregon, Sept. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Sept. 20, 2024: Three Oregon men were sentenced to federal prison Thursday for distributing fentanyl that caused the overdose death of a Medford teenager. Hunter Fenstermaker, 23, a Medford resident, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison and six years' supervised release; Napoleon Gomez, 22, also of Medford, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison and six yea  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: An Oregon man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Andy Steven Oliva-Lopez, 27, of Milwaukie, Oregon, pleaded guilty to a felony ch  more