NEW YORK, March 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on March 18, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Boston-Cambridge-Newton - February 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.354 a gallon in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area in February 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that area gasoline prices were down 15.2 cents compared to l  more

OAKLAND, California, March 19 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Leading a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a motion to intervene on behalf of the State of California and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Oil and Gas Methane Rule. The EPA's final Rule  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: DALLAS, TX - A Dallas fentanyl trafficker who admitted to dealing more than 142,000 counterfeit pills was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. Terrill Antwan Ray, 48, pleaded guilty in April 2023 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and was sentenced Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge David Go  more

DURANGO, Colorado, March 19 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $75,000 to a team of Fort Lewis College students for a water bacteria detection research project. As part of EPA's People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Program, the award will provide funding for the students to develop and validate a scientific system to rapidly detect specific waterborne bacteria from environm  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 19 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll administration today filed a supplemental budget (https://www.mass.gov/doc/supp-budget/download) for Fiscal Year 2024 that would put additional money into human services staffing and programs, address caseload-driven shortfalls in food security spending and make clarifying technical updates to streamline the implementation of existing statutes. This le  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (DHS CRCL), and the FEMA Office of Equal Rights (OER) announce the successful completion of a language access compliance review of COVID-19 public health messaging in 19 states. This review included trainings and technical assista  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 19 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul today, as part of a coalition of 20 attorneys general, filed a motion to intervene (https://ilag-dev.dotcms.cloud/dA/acec4a5e-8c3e-466f-a669-79ad642b3b9f/fileAsset/Filed%20Motion%20for%20Leave%20to%20Intervene_EPA%20Methane%20Rule.pdf) in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following notice (No. 2024-25) in Internal Revenue Bulletin (No. 2024-12, dated March 18, 2024): * * * This notice advises State and local housing credit agencies that allocate low-income housing credits under Sec. 42 of the Internal Revenue Code, and States and other issuers of tax-exempt private activity bonds under Sec. 141, of the population figures to use in calculating: (1) the 2024 calendar  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Stoughton man has pleaded guilty to managing a large-scale drug trafficking organization (DTO) that shipped dozens of parcels containing kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various addresses throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Patrick Joseph, 41, pleaded guilty on March 14, 2024 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to dist  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission's Accounting and Auditing Enforcement issued the following order (No. 4493) on March 15, 2024: * * * On March 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island entered a final judgment against Evoqua Water Technologies Corp.'s former division-level finance director, Imran Parekh, in a case the Commission previously filed alleging improper accounting practices. Evoqua is based in Pennsylvania and has a major divisio  more

NEWTON, Massachusetts, March 19 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Jessica Casserly, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Lauren Jones, Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development in Massachusetts, spoke about various workforce-related partnerships between the state and Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., during her New Horizons keynote address March 13. As a keynote speaker at the 2024 event, Jones provided insight into Massachusetts' workforce development  more