WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 17, 2023: The Attorneys General of Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington and West Virginia today joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department's Antitrust Division along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia, against Google for monopolizing m  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 20 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, a federal district bank, issued the following news release: In a wide-ranging discussion about access to homeownership at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco's (FHLBank San Francisco) fourth Homeownership Solutions Summit in Arizona, public officials, academics, construction industry experts, affordable housing practitioners, local lenders, and other stakeholders maintained that strategies and investments that cr  more

SACRAMENTO, California, April 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Phillip A. Talbert, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: Jose Manuel Navarro, 65, of San Luis, Arizona, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in May 2019, a law enforcement officer working in an undercover capacity (UC) nego  more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona, April 20 -- The U.S. Air Force Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves, 355th Wing Public Affairs To stay in or get out, you think to yourself. Tap, tap, tap. Your finger beats the tune of your thoughts. You have invested so much time in your career, countless hours upholding your training and fine-tuning your skillset with experiences. Family. Education. Medical care. Torn between a rock and a hard   more

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona, April 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (355th Fighter Wing) issued the following news on April 20, 2023: By Staff Sgt. Abbey Rieves, 355th Wing Public Affairs Rows of computer monitors stretch across a low lit room, like corn stalks lining a field. Click, click, click. Fingers rhythmically type across a keyboard. She is watching, lethal and ready. Enemy technology carelessly releases frequencies and signals into the air like dandelion pieces  more

PRESCOTT, Arizona, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: Similar hazards killed two workers at VA facility in Connecticut in 2020 Z - Federal safety inspectors found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs endangered maintenance workers at its healthcare facility in Prescott by allowing them to work on steam lines without ensuring they followed required safety procedures. The U.S. Department of Labor's Oc  more

RESTON, Virginia, April 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued the following news release: * * * Intelligent Waves LLC will pay $435K in back pay, interest to affected applicants * * * The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a technology solutions provider to resolve alleged systemic hiring discrimination against Black applicants at the company's Reston headquarters. The agreement follows a routine investigation   more

LUKE AFB, Arizona, April 22 -- The U.S. Air Force's 56th Fighter Wing issued the following news on April 21, 2023: By Staff Sgt. Noah D. Coger, 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Twenty-one members assigned to the 56th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight participated in a three-day field training exercise, Furious Alpaca, April 10 - 13, 2023, at Camp Navajo, Arizona. The strategic objective of the exercise was to conduct EOD operations in a contested, deployed environment  more

LUKE AFB, Arizona, April 18 -- The U.S. Air Force's 56th Fighter Wing issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Elias Carrero, 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Albert Miller, Director of Training and Readiness, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at Headquarters U.S. Air Force, visited Luke AFB, Arizona, April 7, 2023, to discuss pilot retention programs with aircrew. Miller held multiple question and answer sessions with pilots from the 62nd and 63rd Fighter Sq  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 22 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Arizona Field Office issued the following news release: ARIZONA The number of cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in Arizona feedlots with a capacity of 1,000 head or larger was estimated at 257,000 head as of April 1, 2023. The latest inventory was 1 percent below last month's inventory and 10 percent below April 1, 2022. The inventory included 247,000 steers and steer   more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Arizona dairy herds produced 1.24 billion pounds of milk during the January - March quarter, down 1.4 percent from the previous year. Colorado dairy herds produced 1.30 billion pounds of milk during the January - March quarter, down 0.4 percent from the previous year. Montana dairy herds produced 53.0 million pounds o  more

PRESCOTT, Arizona, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Region 9 issued the following news release: Federal safety inspectors found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs endangered maintenance workers at its healthcare facility in Prescott by allowing them to work on steam lines without ensuring they followed required safety procedures. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration identified one willful   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: David Daniel Gallegos, 21, of Pomona, California, was indicted last week on two counts: Importation of Methamphetamine and Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The United States alleges that, on March 14, 2023, Gallegos applied for admission into the United States from Mexico via a vehicle lane at the San Luis Port of Entry in San Luis, Arizona. United S  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: Luis Ernesto Morales-Reyes, 38, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced Monday by United States District Judge James A. Soto to 78 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release. Morales-Reyes pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl. In September of 2022, Morales-Reyes agreed to deliver approximately 99,500 fentanyl pills to an individual in Tucson   more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is reminding Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming farmers and ranchers that the window is closing on the opportunity to participate in the 2022 Census of Agriculture. NASS is encouraging U.S. producers who ha  more