WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Air Force Pvt. Doyle W. Sexton, 23, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for July 13, 2023. In late 1942, Sexton was a member of the Headquarters Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Isl  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: KANAB, Utah -- The Bureau of Land Management Paria River District will transition to a winter operating schedule for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's four visitor centers and the Kanab Field Office's Paria Contact Station on a sliding schedule beginning Nov. 15, 2023. Winter hours of operation are as follows: Paria Contact Station, which serves as a permit pickup  more

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: SALT LAKE CITY - The 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support) wrapped up their weeklong G3 boot camp at the Western Regional Training Center in Ogden, Utah, on Oct. 20. Historically, brigade, battalion and field hospital S3 (operations) teams attended, but this was the second year the boot camp incorporated S4 (logistics) teams from those units as well. "We're hosting the G3 b  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $36 million for 11 projects across 8 states to accelerate the development of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) capture and storage technologies. Funded through DOE's Sensing Exports of Anthropogenic Carbon through Ocean Observation (SEA-CO2) program, these projects will support novel efforts to measure, report, and validate mCDR and identify   more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Oct. 26 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: To protect Oklahoma's pork producers from needless and excessive regulation, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is opposing a new Massachusetts law that bans states from selling or shipping pork through Massachusetts if they do not meet strict hog-housing requirements. Massachusetts's pork ban means that even if Oklahoma-produced pork meets all Oklahoma and federal safety and qualit  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: KANAB, Utah -- On Dec. 14 and Dec. 15, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management Paria River District will support local citizen scientists in support of the National Audubon Society's winter-bird census, called the Christmas Bird Count. "The Christmas Bird Count is an event for all ages," said Kanab Field Office Wildlife Biologist Lisa Church. "Bird count contributions can be tall  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy issued the following news on Oct. 26, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $36 million for 11 projects across 8 states to accelerate the development of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) capture and storage technologies. Funded through DOE's Sensing Exports of Anthropogenic Carbon through Ocean Observation (SEA-CO2) program, these projects will support novel efforts to measure,  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 27 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following statement on Oct. 26, 2023: * * * Attorney General Sean D. Reyes announced that his office would be appealing a U.S. District Court's September ruling in Utah v. Su, which involves a challenge to a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would negatively affect the retirement accounts of millions of Americans. The federal government's rule would allow 401(k) managers to direct their clients' money to ESG (envi  more