VICKSBURG, Mississippi, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news story: By Mary Miller Morgan, public affairs specialist The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) Environmental Laboratory (EL) recently completed field trials in Massachusetts and Connecticut, using germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C) to sustainably suppress and potentially eradicate cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) without using chemicals or  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 22 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Dec. 21, 2023, entitled "Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses in Connecticut - 2022": * * * Private industry employers reported 35,700 nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in Connecticut in 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that this resulted in a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS CEPEDA, also known as "Doogie," 35, of Bridgeport, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Ac  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order simultaneously filing and settling misappropriation-based fraud charges against Freepoint Commodities LLC, a commodities merchant in Stamford, Connecticut. The fraudulent and deceptive conduct spanned from 2012 to 2018 and involved unlawful misconduct designed to obtain material non-public information from a South American   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS LIBERATORE, 66, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 384 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for offenses stemming from the robbery of Marco Jewelers in Stamford in March 2020  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER POLLER, 30, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug distribution and firearm possession offenses. According   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL LONSKI, 72, of Greenwich, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a $2.6 million health care fraud scheme. Accor  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2023: KEVIN IMAN McCORMICK, 30, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 144 months of imprisonment, followed a lifetime term of supervised release with monitoring of his electronic devices, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terro  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that THOMAS AQUILES, Jr., 37, formerly of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 42 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for a heroin trafficking offense. According to co  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDON BATISTE, also known as "B," 36, last residing in Chicopee, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 504 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for kidnapping and murd  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONIER SANCHEZ ALONSO, 47, of Naucalpan, Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents and statements made in   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PIERRE JOSHWAN RODRIGUEZ, also known as "Ochy," 42, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 210 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for heading a cocaine trafficking conspi  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NESTOR SOSA-ORTIZ, 39, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and heroin. According to court documents   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: FARMINGTON, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DENIS MURTIC, 38, of Farmington, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for fentanyl and cocaine trafficking offense  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $1.7 million to the State of Connecticut to reimburse Yale New Haven Hospital for the cost of paying for equipment, labor and other steps taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic. A Public Assistance grant of $1,662,212 will reimburse the primary teaching hospital for the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONIER SANCHEZ ALONSO, 47, of Naucalpan, Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment for his role in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy. According to court documents a  more