NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ERIC MUNOZ, Jr., also known as "Bebo," 28, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 88 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and other narc  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 29 -- The Georgia State Senate issued the following news release: Sen. Elena Parent (D-Atlanta) is filing two bills related to address access to reproductive healthcare in Georgia: Senate Bill 564 ensure Georgians have access to contraception and Senate Bill 565 to ensure that access to in vitro fertility treatment is not compromised by the definition or status of a human embryo created outside a human uterus. The Right to Contraception Act aims to ensure comprehensive a  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 29 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that, based on both live-fire testing results and existing peer-reviewed studies, microstamping technology is a viable means of matching an expended cartridge case to the weapon from which it was discharged. This finding represents an important step toward establishing a roster of microstamping-enabled commercial f  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 29 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release: New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a multistate coalition of 18 attorneys general urging the Colorado Supreme Court to affirm a lower court's ruling that a Colorado baker violated the state's antidiscrimination law (https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/amicus-curiae/scardina-v.-masterpiece-amicus-brief.pdf) when he denied service to a transgender customer. Jack Phillips and his bakery, M  more