WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has completed changes to restructure its regional operations and created a new region to better protect workers and educate employers as businesses expand and workforces grow in communities in several southeastern states. Among the changes is the creation of a new region based i  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: DALLAS - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has completed changes to restructure its regional operations and created a new region to better protect workers and educate employers as businesses expand and workforces grow in communities in several southeastern states. Among the changes is the creation of a new region based in  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has completed changes to restructure its regional operations and created a region to better protect workers and educate employers as businesses expand and workforces grow in communities in several southeastern states. OSHA has expanded its existing San Francisco region by   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued the following news on Oct. 2, 2024: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is awarding $85.9 million in grants to states to support pipeline and underground natural gas storage (UNGS) inspection activities carried out by state inspectors covering more than 85 percent of the nation's 3.3-million-mile pipeline s  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 3 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a 19-state coalition in a letter to ActBlue, one of the nation's largest political campaign fundraising platforms, demanding proof of its donation verification systems amid concerns of illegal donating. Verifying campaign donations prevents illegal donation schemes that may compromise elections. Illegal donation concerns include donors   more

ABERDEEN, Mississippi, Oct. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi issued the following news release on Oct. 2, 2024: Derrick Stewart, Jr., 20, was sentenced on Tuesday afternoon to 10 years in prison for firearms trafficking and conspiracy to traffic firearms. The investigation began after agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives noticed a high volume of firearms recovered in crimes in the city of Chicago, Illinois had been pu  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, Oct. 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Pearl River man pled guilty to possession of over 15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute in the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Bill Clemons, Jr., 37, was indicted by a federal grand jury in January 2024 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Clemons is scheduled to be sentenced on   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary E. Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) instrument, the in-Situ Thunderstorm Observer for Radiation Mechanisms (iSTORM), provides paradigm-changing observations of ionizing radiation from tropical thunderstorms aboard a NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft, recently published in Nature. Thunderstorms are a destructive fo  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Oct. 3 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * DOE tasks a Jefferson Lab team to evaluate whether proton therapy cancer treatments may serve as a safer alternative to treatments using radioactive isotopes * * * Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innov  more

RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Oct. 1 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: Hurricane Francine quickly approached the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline as a category 3 Hurricane, leaving Columbus Air Force Base leadership with less than 24 hours to make the decision to evacuate over 200 aircraft or shelter in place. Tech Sgt. Jason Fant, 14th Operations Support Squadron weather flight chief, rubbed his eyes after hours of studying storm tracking data for H  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 3 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Oct. 1, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 19 States on an amicus brief in United States v. Idaho at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The filing, which was led by the State of Indiana, supports Idaho's defense of its abortion restrictions against federal preemption. The federal government is attempting to use the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) - which re  more