RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Nov. 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. A special group of veteran pilots gathered outside the 50th Flying Training Squadron in the thick familiar Mississippi air. The shared stories from the cockpit produced laughter and excitement as they began their tour of current day Undergraduate Pilot Training. The 50th Flying Training Squadron "Strikin Snakes", hosted over 30 former T-38 Talon instr  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, Nov. 23 -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following news release on Nov. 21, 2024: Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today led coalition of 19 state attorneys general in a letter urging U.S. military leaders to stop using unlawful and immoral racial quotas for recruitment and admission to military academies. "Racism has no place in the U.S. government, especially not in the United States military. The Supreme Court has made clear what the Constitution requires  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Nov. 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release on Nov. 22, 2024: A Mobile man, Quenton James Franklin, 28, was sentenced today in federal court on his conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and marijuana as a member of the Otis Sanders drug trafficking organization. Franklin is Sanders' cousin and was charged as a co-defendant in the federal indictment. Franklin pled guilt  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected Sierra Lobo, Inc. of Fremont, Ohio, to provide for test operations, test support, and technical system maintenance activities at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The NASA Stennis Test Operations Contract is fixed-price, level-of-effort contract that has a value of approximately $47 million. The performance period begins July 1, 2025, and extends three years, with a one-year base period   more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Nov. 23 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on Nov. 22, 2024: South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 23 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an Arizona case to protect girls' and women's sports. "Sports teams are divided by sex to begin with to give girls a level playing field so they're not competing against boys," Attorney General Wilson said. "Arizona's law restricting girls' sports teams to biologic  more