SANTIAGO, Chile, April 10 -- The Alabama Department of Commerce issued the following news on April 9, 2024: An Alabama delegation including five companies is in Chile's capital city for this week's International Air and Space Fair, or FIDAE, seeking to develop business connections at South America's foremost aerospace exposition. The Alabama Department of Commerce is heading the trade mission delegation to Santiago and hosting a "Made in Alabama" exhibition booth for the state businesses to sh  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: Department of Education releases new state-by-state numbers showing the effect of four major discharge program proposals for the 4 million borrowers who have already been approved for relief The Biden-Harris Administration today released initial details of a new set of plans that would provide student debt relief for tens of millions of borrowers across the country. The plans would bring the total   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The average domestic air fare of $396 in the third quarter of 2014 was virtually the same as the average fare in the third quarter of 2013, adjusted for inflation (Table 1), the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. During the July to September 2014 period, passengers originating in Cincinnat  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * As part of the Administration's commitment to combating PFAS pollution, EPA announces $1B investment through President Biden's Investing in America agenda to address PFAS in drinking water * * * Today, April 10, the Biden-Harris Administration issued the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per-and polyfluoroalkyl su  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 10 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced Boards and Commissions appointments. * * * Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individual to the North Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners: * D. Curtis Lawson of Durham as a public member. Lawson retired after 28 years as a Senior Administrative Officer and Lead Research Biologist at the Durham VA Health Care System. He is t  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today released an update to its Early Childhood Action Plan to address key actions the department is taking to improve early childhood development in North Carolina. As Governor Roy Cooper proclaims this week as Week of the Young Child in North Carolina, the updated action plan and efforts t  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency (NCORR) is accepting public comments through Monday, April 15 on proposed amendments to action plans for the use of HUD Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery funds for Hurricane Florence and Community Development Block Grant-Mitigation funds. Proposed action plan amendments include changes to previously a  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, April 10 -- The North Carolina Department of Public Safety issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) recently concluded an investigation after multiple pedestrians were struck by a vehicle during a large block party at a Greensboro gas station. On March 29, 2024, at approximately 6:31 p.m., Greensboro Police officers responded to the area of South Eugene and West Whittington Streets in reference to a large-scal  more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, April 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: A Swain County man is facing a federal charge for allegedly killing his wife in 2013, announced Dena J. King U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Ernest D. Pheasant, Sr., 46, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), is charged with one count of first-degree murder in Indian Country. P  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL experts and representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) visited North Carolina to review final preparations to ship and test a lower-cost transformational technology developed by CORMETECH Inc. that is designed to capture at least 95% of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue gas of natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants. The technology will soon  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy issued the following news release: This week, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Dr. Rahul Gupta recognized individuals and initiatives of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program at the 2024 National HIDTA Awards Ceremony for their critical work to prevent overdoses and save lives by cracking down on the trafficking of dangerous drugs. "Members of our High Intensity  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 10 (TNSres) -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Air Quality (DAQ) is now accepting public comments on a draft Title V air quality permit for the Alamance County Landfill. Comments will be accepted through April 24. The county-owned and -operated municipal solid waste landfill in Graham, North Carolina, is required to obta  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * Extreme House Republican Plan Would Hurt American Workers While Rigging the Economy for Big Corporations and the Wealthy State-by-state analysis shows how the Republican Study Committee budget would gut job training and workforce development programs that strengthen our economy and create pathways to good jobs President Biden is building our economy from the middle out and bottom up--an economy where we in  more