PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Philadelphia District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced the release of a draft report for the Eastwick Flood Risk Management Study. The draft report outlines a 'Tentatively Selected Plan,' which includes an approximately 1400-foot levee along the left bank of Cobbs Creek within the Eastwick Regional Park and Clearview Landfill. The levee plan is designed to reduce the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: The Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) today approved a direct loan for more than $4.7 million to Aquatech, a small, minority-owned business based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The financing approved today, the first transaction authorized under EXIM's Make More in America Initiative, will support the purchase of services and laboratory equipment to   more

GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 786,000 visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site in 2022 spent $57.1 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 686 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $82.1 million. "Gettysburg and Eisenhower  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Four NETL researchers have been recognized by Research.com, an international ranking organization, as being among the best scientists in the world in the fields of chemistry, earth science, and engineering and technology. NETL's Dan Sorescu, Ranjani Siriwardane, Ray Boswell and Mehrdad Massoudi appear in the second edition of Research.com's rankings. Th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56695) involving UPMC Horizon, Greenville, Pennsylvania: * * * Rep Org: PA Bureau of Radiation Protection Licensee: UPMC Horizon, Greenville, PA Region: 1 City: Greenville State: PA License #: PA-0057 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: John Chippo HQ OPS Officer: Donald Norwood Notification Date: 08/24/2023 Notification Time: 13:03 [ET] Event Date: 08/23/2023 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] La  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: James West pled guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. West, age 48, formerly of Sharon, Pennsylvania, pled guilty before United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon. Judge Bissoon scheduled sentencing to occur on January 17, 2024, at 2:15 p.m. The law provides for a sent  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: The president of a Pittsburgh-area mineral company has been sentenced in federal court to 3 years of probation and ordered to pay $222,255.35 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and a fine of $55,000 on his conviction for filing a false income tax return, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Unite  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: A resident of Chicora, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. The one-count Indictment named Scott Louis Musthaf, 51, of Chicora, PA, as the sole defendant. According to the Indictment presented to the court  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Torlando Hopson was sentenced to 10 months in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Hopson, age 34 of Sharon, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon. Judge Bissoon ordered Hopson to serve three years of supervised release followin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Aug. 31, 2023: Two men from Pennsylvania and Virginia have been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges related to their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Peter Wi  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: By Stacy Vaughn, 445th Airlift Wing, Public Affairs Approximately 65 Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation and Aeromedical Staging Squadrons trained with their counterparts from the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania, at two locations during Steel Buckeye, August 2-3. Two missions were conducted each day, one for each AE unit  more