BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2024: A Springfield man pleaded guilty today to possessing cocaine intended for distribution. Hector Quinones, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for May 9, 2024. Quinones was indicted by a federal grand jury in April 2022. On Jan. 20, 2  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 12 -- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center issued the following news release: After her lifelong battle with an invisible adversary, Susan Mann and her physicians may finally have the upper hand against her treatment-resistant high blood pressure. Mann was just eight years old when doctors at then-Beth Israel Hospital made the surprising diagnosis. In the 1960s, physicians didn't have much to offer their young patient besides a prescription for sedatives and a recom  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 12 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Jan. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - December 2023": * * * Area prices were unchanged over the past month, up 2.6 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were unchanged in December, the U.S. B  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, a five-count indictment was unsealed charging Ariana Charles with conspiring to illegally traffic 18 firearms to Brooklyn. The defendant is charged under the gun trafficking provisions of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Congress and the President enacted in June 2022. The Act i  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced Jereaud Egans, 38, of Castor, Louisiana has been sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 195 months (16 years, 3 months) in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for drug possession and illegal possession of firearms. Egans pleaded guilt  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Jan. 12 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Jan. 11, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont today announced the establishment of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection's (DEEP) Office of Outdoor Industry and Experiences, which seeks to grow Connecticut's outdoor recreation economy by creating partnerships with the private sector. Coinciding with establishing this new office, DEEP is launching a request for information (RFI  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Jan. 11 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * Study finds steepest drops in areas of the Northern Hemisphere reliant on snow for water. * * * Snow is one of the most contradictory cues we have for understanding climate change. As in many recent winters, the lack of snowfall in December seemed to preview our global warming future, with peaks from Oregon to New Hampshire more brown than white and the American Southwest facing a severe s  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health issued the following news release: To help prevent preeclampsia and preterm birth--common complications in pregnancy that can be fatal to women and newborns--low-dose calcium supplementation (equivalent to one 500-milligram pill per day) may be as effective as the World Health Organization (WHO)'s recommended high-dose calcium supplementation (equivalent to three 500-milligram pills taken throughou  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 -- The Human Rights Campaign issued the following statement on Jan. 11, 2024: * * * Today the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order allowing Alabama's ban on medical care for transgender adolescents to take effect. This order grants a request by the state of Alabama to stay the trial court's 2022 decision blocking the law from being enforced while the challenge against it proceeds. * * * Lawyers representing parents of transgender adolescents who are challengi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Francisco Javier Mecina Barrera, a/k/a "Angel," was sentenced to 21 years in prison for MECINA's leadership of a large-scale firearms trafficking and methamphetamine distribution and importation operation he called the "Cartel de Houston" -  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: DALLAS, TX - Three defendants were sentenced today to a combined 35 years in federal prison for their roles in the drug conspiracy that claimed the lives of three teenagers in North Texas. Jason Xavier Villanueva, 23, Robert Alexander Gaitan, 20, and Rafael Soliz, Jr., 23, were indicted in a superseding indictment in March 2023. In June 202  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: Oxford, MS - A Starkville man was sentenced Wednesday to 121 months for selling pounds of methamphetamine. According to court documents, Willie Saul Dean III, a/k/a "Buck Dean", 45, of Starkville, Mississippi pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Northern District to Mississippi to one count of distribution of methamphe  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * Uncertainty surrounding how truncated titin proteins (TTNtvs) cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) led to investigations that could better inform therapies for these conditions * * * Advancements in the study of two rare heart conditions--peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)--cont  more