OFFUTT AFB, Nebraska, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Air Force Offutt Air Force Base (55th Air Wing) issued the following news: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., visited with Airmen from across Team Offutt, Sept. 6-7, 2023. During his two-day visit he coined high performers and visited U.S. Strategic Command. Col. Mark Howard, 55th Wing commander, greeted Gen. and Mrs. Brown upon their arrival Sept. 6, 2023, at base operations. Gen. Brown took questions from Airmen from the 55th Wing during  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -Omaha District is seeking public comments on the recently published Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Dakota Access, LLC's request for an easement under the Mineral Leasing Act for the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline crosses the Corps-managed federal land at Lake Oahe, North Dakota. The DEIS is not a decision and does not aut  more

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 8 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: Attorney General Raul Labrador and 15 other state attorneys general sounded the alarm on the China-founded, fast-fashion retailer SHEIN's business practices - which includes reports of forced labor - and their potential Initial Public Offering (IPO) launch later this year. In a letter sent Thursday to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, the attorneys general urge the SEC to require any fore  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 8 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: As part of a 54-state and territory bipartisan coalition, Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a letter urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) can and is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to propose legislation to protect children from those abuses. The danger of AI as it relates to CSAM is in three main catego  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Sept. 9 -- Gov. Jim Pillen, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: Governor Jim Pillen is wrapping up the first leg of his current trade mission to South Korea and Japan. He, and other members of the delegation, are traveling to Tokyo, the second leg of their trip. The group arrived in Seoul on Tuesday, Sept. 5, kicking off a full slate of meetings and events that will continue through Tuesday, Sept. 12. The delegation is promoting Nebraska agricultu  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Sept. 8 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: As part of a bipartisan 54-state and territory coalition, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to protect children from those abuses. "AI presents a massive threat to our children, and Congress must act swiftly to deter the evil  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against Monolith Resources LLC, a privately held energy and technology company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, for using employee separation agreements that violated the SEC's whistleblower protection rules. According to the SEC's order, from February 2020 until early March 2023, Monolith used separation agr  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Sept. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release: Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Jerrell Jackson, 34, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on September 6, 2023, in federal court in Omaha for distributing fentanyl. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Jackson to 54 months in prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After Jackson's release from prison, he will begin a three  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Sept. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2023: Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Michael Blaine Lee, 38, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for his involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy. United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Lee to 121 months' imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from pris  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Sept. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2023: Acting United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Erika Lopez-Garcia, 28, of Phoenix, Arizona, and Gabriel Rubio-Quevedo, 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. During separate sentencing hearings, United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Lopez-Garcia and Ru  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Cmdr. William A. McKinstry, U.S. Coast Guard Eulace Peacock was born in Dothan, Alabama, on Aug. 27, 1914. As with many African Americans of that era, his family moved north to New Jersey when Peacock was a child in search of better employment opportunities and a better quality of life. In June of 1932, it was as a student athlete in Union, New Jersey, that Peacock began to show the athlet  more