SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Nov. 15 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release: Funding will support remote Alaska communities through the Alaska Fisheries Science Center Indigenous Engagement Program. Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced it will award up to a total of $1 million for seven recommended multi-year projects supporting remote Alaska communities through the Alaska Fisheries Science Center Indigenous Engagement Program. This  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following news release: NOV. 14, 2024 The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for October 2024. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration with economists affiliated with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Fede  more

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, Nov. 15 -- The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, an organization within the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, issued the following news release: If you consider the 29 construction projects at China Lake like a football season, the South Airfield Complex ribbon on Nov. 7 cutting marks a touchdown in the championship game. At least, that's how Capt. Laurie Scott, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest's commanding officer, describes it. Recovery is a tea  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36806) entitled "Old Line Holding Co. Inc. dba Old Line Railroad - Acquisition and Operation Exemption - Line of the Maryland and Delaware Railroad Co.": * * * Old Line Holding Company, Inc., d/b/a Old Line Railroad (Old Line), a noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to acquire from The Maryland and Delaware Railroad Company   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Nov. 15, 2024: Mynor Josue Fernandez Alfaro, 24, of Dundalk, Maryland, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 63 months in federal prison for participating in a drug trafficking scheme that distributed thousands of doses of lethally potent fentanyl in Washington D.C. and Maryland. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, DEA Special Agent in Char  more