LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 21 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 20, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after co-leading a 20-state, bipartisan letter calling on Congress to affirm states' authority to ban or regulate intoxicating and dangerous hemp-derived products like Delta-8 THC in the next Farm Bill: "Arkansas has banned Delta THC products, but inconsistent court interpretations of certain provisions wit  more

OAKLAND, California, March 21 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: * * * California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, along with 20 other attorneys general, sent a letter urging Congress to protect Californians from intoxicating hemp products by updating language of the Farm Bill. The letter argues that vagueness in the 2018 Farm Bill has led to the proliferation of intoxicating hemp products across the nation and challenges the ability   more

DENVER, Colorado, March 21 -- The Colorado House Democrats issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: The House Judiciary Committee today passed gun violence prevention legislation sponsored by Representatives Tim Hernandez and Elisabeth Epps to prohibit the manufacture, import, purchase, or sale of assault weapons and rapid-fire trigger activators. HB24-1292 passed by a vote of 7-3. "The vast majority of Americans and over 80% of Democrats support an assault weapons ban and are fed   more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 21 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will conduct a virtual public information meeting concerning the replacement of Bridge No. 06955 carrying Glen Street over Mattabesset River in Berlin on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. The virtual public information meeting is being held to provide the public and local community the opportunity to offe  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 21 -- The Connecticut Department of Transportation issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) will conduct a hybrid public information meeting concerning U.S. Route 1 safety improvements in Fairfield on April 25, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. The virtual public information meeting is being held to provide the public and local community the opportunity to offer comments or ask questions regarding the proposed proje  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that NERICK DIAZ-QUESADA, 25, of New Britain, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. According to court documen  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: EZRA ALVES, also known as "EJ" and "Ezzy," 23, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to offenses stemming from his participation in the 960 gang, a violent Waterbury street gang. Today's announcement was made by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; M  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 21 -- Hawaii Attorney General Anne E. Lopez issued the following news release: Attorney General Anne Lopez is joining a coalition of 20 other state attorneys general on a bipartisan letter asking Congress to fix language in the 2018 Farm Bill that bad actors have used to flood the market with unregulated, intoxicating hemp. The current law defining hemp has resulted in exploitation. Applied to foods, the 0.3% THC limit which distinguishes industrial hemp from cannabis,   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 21 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul led a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In their brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, Raoul and the attorneys general ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling that found the law unconstitutiona  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 3:20-cv-0397; D. Conn. filed March 25, 2020) involving Bernard Findley and Halitron Inc.: * * * SEC Obtains Judgments Against Microcap Company and its CEO Following Trial * * * On March 20, 2024, a federal district court in Connecticut entered final judgments against Connecticut-based penny stock company Halitron, Inc. and its CEO, Bernard Findley. The judgments follow a trial and a Ja  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 21 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/032024_Filed_US_Prince_State_Amicus_Brief.pdf) defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In its brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, the coalition asks the  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 21 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release on March 20, 2024: Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a friend-of-the-court brief defending the federal law that prohibits people who have been convicted of felonies from possessing firearms. In the brief, filed in U.S. v Prince, Attorney General Stein and 21 other attorneys general ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to overturn a lower court ruling that foun  more