SEATTLE, Washington, July 8 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Tessa M. Gorman, issued the following news release on July 7, 2023: A 36- year-old resident of Mexico was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 44 months in prison for her role in laundering millions of dollars in drug proceeds for drug traffickers, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Tessa M. Gorman. In March 2023, Sonia L. Mezquita Vega pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money launder  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations and U.S. Border Patrol rescued two U.S. citizens suffering from heat stress near Montana Peak, south of Arivaca, Arizona. On Monday at approximately 1:10 p.m., the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office contacted the Tucson Border Patrol Station for help responding to two U.S Citizens requesting immediat  more

WASHINGTON, July 7 (TNStalk) -- EMILY's List issued the following statement on July 6, 2023: * * * Today EMILYs List, the nation's largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Regina Romero for reelection as mayor of Tucson, Arizona. EMILYs List President Laphonza Butler released the following statement: "Mayor Regina Romero has been a champion for the people of Tucson and a leader in creating a more just and equitable city for all. While Republican extremists were busy stripping us of ou  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on July 7, 2023: Today, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement announced significant enforcement actions against a prolific transnational drug trafficking organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico border. After extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Mexico's Attorney General's Office, Fiscalia General de la Republica (FGR) - conducted a significant enforcement   more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, July 7 (TNSres) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: The universe is expanding, and Kansas State University physicists want to know why. Lado Samushia, associate professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is part of a collaboration studying the mysterious force behind the universe's accelerating expansion, referred to as dark energy. The researchers are using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI, located at the Kitt Peak   more

WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: On Thursday, June 29, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) detailed the findings of its unannounced inspections of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) holding facilities in the Yuma and Tucson areas, specifically five U.S. Border Patrol facilities and two Office of Field Operations (OFO) ports of entry (POE). Border Patrol's management of migrant p  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release on July 7, 2023: Today, United States and Mexican law enforcement announced significant enforcement actions against a prolific transnational drug trafficking organization operating in Nogales, Sonora, along the U.S.-Mexico border. After extensive bilateral cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Mexico's Attorney General's Office, Fiscalia General de la Republica (  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * Scientists have long thought that spiral arms in protoplanetary disks could be caused by nascent planets, yet none had been detected until now. * * * Depictions of the Milky Way show a coiling pattern of spiral "arms" filled with stars extending outward from the center. Similar patterns have been observed in the swirling clouds of gas and dust surrounding some young stars - planetary system  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release on July 6, 2023: * * * Everything must go smoothly when the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft releases its capsule with pristine asteroid material to land in the Utah desert in September. * * * The capsule looks a little bit like a miniature UFO from a 1960s sci-fi flick. Resting on the ground, slightly tilted, its white heat shield flaked off in places, it looks how one would expect it to after speeding in f  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 7 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * A study published in the journal PAIN is the first to show how morphine interacts with toll-like receptor 4 to contribute to pain evolution and bone loss. * * * Opioids such as morphine are the gold standard for treating cancer-induced bone pain, but new University of Arizona Health Sciences research published in PAIN uncovers a mechanism by which chronic morphine use may increase bone loss  more