TAMPA, Florida, Sept. 27 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: * * * Black Employees Were Subjected to a Hostile Work Environment that Included Racial Slurs, Threatening Conduct and Humiliating Working Conditions, Federal Agency Charges * * * Asphalt Paving Systems, Inc. (APS), an asphalt paving company with offices in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Tennessee, violated federal law by subjecting 12 Black employees w  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 25, 2023: * * * Federal Agency Charges Multiple Male Co-Workers and Managerial Employees Subjected Female Employees to Hostile Work Environment * * * AMZ Manufacturing Co. (AMZ), an electroplating, painting, and assembly business, violated federal law when it subjected female employees to a hostile work environment because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Oppo  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: A groundbreaking experiment completed with NETL oversight is expected to generate important insights about the behavior of faults and other seismic activity when carbon dioxide (CO2) - a greenhouse gas - is injected into geologic formations. Completed at the Mont Terri Underground Research Laboratory in Switzerland, the experiment involved injecting wa  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: An innovative sensor technology, developed by NETL and its partners at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh-based company Sensible Photonics Inc. that can protect the Nation's energy infrastructure, help save lives, and save the economy billions of dollars by preventing electric service downtime has scored a 2023 R&D 100 award in the topic area of IT/  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Ravon Crockett pled guilty to committing fentanyl and cocaine trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Crockett, age 46, of Cleveland, Ohio, pled guilty before Chief United States District Judge Mark R. Hornak. Crockett pled guilty to (1) conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine between Marc  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Denzel Williams pled guilty to trafficking fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine base, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Williams, age 29, of Farrell, Pennsylvania, pled guilty before United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon. Williams pled guilty to conspiring to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine base, betwe  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Forrest Gilmore pled guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine base, and to distributing cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a school, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Gilmore, age 28, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pled guilty before United States District Judge Cathy Bissoon. Judge Bissoon schedul  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: A Montana man and a Pennsylvania man were sentenced in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2021, on several felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement, related to their actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convene  more