YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: By Tech. Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal More than 130 Airmen assigned to four wings across the Connecticut, Montana, and Missouri Air National Guard united to form the C-130 Hercules Force Element here during Mobility Guardian 23, July 5-21, 2023. Fifty-eight maintainers assigned to the 139th Airlift Wing, 120th AW, 103rd AW, and Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center school house, ensured thre  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the following news release: The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) arrived on-scene Wednesday to join agents from the Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Fairview Heights ATF Offices in investigating a large fire that destroyed parts of Buffington Farms in Williamsville, Missouri. In the early morning hours of August 22, the Way  more

EAST ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release: A man from Arkansas was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison Wednesday after he admitted to transporting 11 pounds of crystal methamphetamine to Fairview Heights, Illinois. Leonardo A. Hernandez, 50, of Bentonville, Arkansas, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. In additio  more

LENEXA, Kansas, Aug. 25 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Today, EPA Region 7 Administrator Meg McCollister presented a $500,000 ceremonial check to the Community Development Administration (CDA) of St. Louis, Missouri, as a Brownfields Assessment Grant selectee. McCollister was joined by St. Louis Mayor Tishaura O. Jones and CDA Executive Director Nahuel Fefer. The city plans to utilize the Brownfields Assessment Grant funding for comm  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release: Three people have been indicted in U.S. District Court in St. Louis on drug charges and have been accused of helping smuggle the drugs that killed a St. Francois County jail detainee in 2021. Timothy L. Noll, 34, Garry "Will" Triplett, 36, and Alissa R. Hahn, 28, were indicted August 9 on a charge of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. Triplett an  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 25 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Three leaders and six members of a confederation of street gangs in the Kansas City metropolitan area have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an ongoing criminal enterprise that involved armed violence, including a murder conspiracy and drive-by shootings, and illegal drug trafficking. Steven K. Lee, also known as "Bizz  more

RIVERDALE, North Dakota, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during August and September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Garrison Dam and Huff, N.D. to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened Piping Plover for nesting. Certified applicators using helicopters will begin spraying the end of August only on the vegetated portio  more

YANKTON, South Dakota, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct vegetation management activities during the month of September on sandbars in the Missouri River between Yankton and Vermillion, S.D., the upper portion of Lewis and Clark Lake near Springfield S.D. and Niobrara, N.E., and as far upstream as Pickstown, S.D. to keep the sandbars free of vegetation and usable by the threatened Piping Pl  more