MONTGOMERY, Alabama, March 26 -- The Alabama Secretary of State issued the following news: Secretary of State Wes Allen is warning Alabama citizens of a misleading, unsolicited mass mailing of pre-filled voter registration forms targeting Alabama mailboxes. The mailer is not affiliated with the State of Alabama and has, in fact, been officially discouraged by the Office of the Secretary of State. The Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information, the two groups operating the mass  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, March 26 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release: The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) has announced Gov. Andy Beshear, of Kentucky, as its 2024 States' Co-Chair. Beshear was elected to serve as States' Co-Chair by the DRA Board of Governors during its annual Quorum. In this role, Beshear will work directly with the agency's Federal Co-Chairman on economic development and growth in the DRA region. "DRA is pleased to have Gov. Beshear serve as ou  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: The Internal Revenue Service announced today that almost 940,000 people across the nation have unclaimed refunds for tax year 2020 but face a May 17 deadline to submit their tax returns. The IRS estimates more than $1 billion in refunds remain unclaimed because people haven't filed their 2020 tax returns yet. The average median refund is $932 for 2020, and  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: A newly unsealed federal indictment charges two individuals for their roles in a conspiracy to buy and sell stolen high-end vehicles worth millions of dollars, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The defendants are also charged with gun offenses. Robert M. DeWitt, Special Agent in Cha  more

BROOKLYN, New York, March 25 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: An indictment was unsealed today charging seven nationals of the People's Republic of China (PRC) with conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their involvement in a PRC-based hacking group that spent approximately 14 years targeting U.S. and foreign critics, businesses and political officials in furtherance of the PRC's  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57035) involving Southern Earth Sciences Inc., Mobil, Alabama: * * * Rep Org: Alabama Radiation Control Licensee: Southern Earth Sciences, Inc Region: 1 City: Mobil State: AL License #: RML 647 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Cason Coan HQ OPS Officer: Karen Cotton-Gross Notification Date: 03/18/2024 Notification Time: 17:24 [ET] Event Date: 03/18/2024 Event Time: 14:45 [CDT] Last   more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, March 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John H. Johnson and Paula Z. Johnson, both age 62, of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to a criminal information charging them with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. John H. Johnson also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to   more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: The U.S. and UK take action against actors affiliated with the Chinese state-sponsored APT 31 hacking group. Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, Limited (Wuhan XRZ), a Wuhan, China-based Ministry of State Security (MSS) front company that has served as cover for multiple malicious cyber operations  more

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The FBI issued the following news release on March 25, 2024: Director Christopher Wray has named William J. DelBagno as the special agent in charge of the Baltimore Field Office. Mr. DelBagno most recently served as the acting assistant director of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. DelBagno joined the FBI as a special agent in 2005 and was assigned to the New York Field Office, where he conducted counterterrorism investigations. He also  more