LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 13 (TNSPer) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts appointed Jason Bergevin of Lincoln as District Court Judge in the Fifth Judicial District. The Fifth District consists of Boone, Butler, Colfax, Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Platte, Polk, Saunders, Seward, and York counties. Bergevin, 47, has served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Bureau of the Nebraska Attorney General's Office since 2015. In this role  more

TUCSON, Arizona, May 13 (TNSPer) -- The University of Arizona's Health Science issued the following news release: Donata Vercelli, MD, has been appointed as a Regents Professor, a title awarded to full professors who have garnered the most distinguished accomplishments in research, teaching, scholarship or creative work. Dr. Vercelli, professor of cellular and molecular medicine, associate director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, and a mem  more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, May 13 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Vermont issued the following news: Two University of Vermont professors have been honored with National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Awards for their contributions to science. Dr. Matthew Scarborough, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and Dr. Mindy Morales-Williams, assistant professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, join the ranks of over 50 UVM faculty NSF CA  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued the following news release: Wall-to-wall coverage in the Senate battlegrounds is highlighting how Democrats are joining with voters, doctors, local leaders and women's health care advocates to speak out against Republican Senate candidates' agenda criminalizing abortion and taking away a woman's right to make their own health care decisions. The Hill: Swing state Democratic parties hold coordinated 'day of action' on abo  more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Rep. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release on May 12, 2022: Yesterday, Congresswoman Fischbach introduced the Unborn Protection Act. This legislation would prohibit discrimination by abortion against an unborn child on the basis of results from Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) like non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). "It is heartbreaking to think how many parents have resorted to having an abortion because of an inaccurate test result, and   more

WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on May 12, 2022: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today sent a letter with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urging him to act proactively to protect service members' abortion rights. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of troops, dependents and DoD civilians stationed in states that ban abortion will lose access to lifesaving reprodu  more

ORONO, Maine, May 13 (TNSJou) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: A devastating threat is bearing down on New England's oldest documented artistic tradition. Emerald ash borer, an insect native to Asia, has barreled through ash stands in at least 35 states and three Canadian provinces since it was first documented in Michigan and Ontario in 2002. Brown ash (Fraxinus nigra), the species Wabanaki basket-tree harvesters target, is especially susceptible to the invasive i  more