HARTFORD, Connecticut, March 27 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on March 26, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the Superior Court decision affirming the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority rejection of Eversource-owned Aquarion's $36 million rate hike request. "This is a resounding affirmation of PURA's well-reasoned, pro-consumer rejection of Aquarion's unsubstantiated multi-million-dollar rate h  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHELLE CRUZ, 38, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a narcotics trafficking ring. According to court doc  more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: The FCC's Privacy and Data Protection Task Force in parallel with the Federal Trade Commission and other federal and state agencies announced ongoing initiatives to strengthen law enforcement efforts through increased technical expertise and cooperation, including for privacy and data protection enforcement matters. FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan A. Egal, chair of the Task Fo  more

OLYMPIA, Washington, March 27 -- Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: * * * In case you missed it, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and other governors of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Food and Drug Administration, et al., v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the most significant abortion rights case since this same Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Inslee has b  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, March 27 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Attorneys General for 11 other States and the District of Columbia have told Glock, Inc. to preserve all evidence related to its line of Glock pistols, which can be easily converted into illegal machine guns with just one small, easy-to-make modification. The States' letter to Glock was sent in the wake of the gunmaker   more

ALBANY, New York, March 26 -- The New York State Public Service Commission issued the following order determining penalty (Case No. 24-G-0078) on March 25, 2024: * * * In the Matter of an Enforcement Proceeding Against Mac-Well Developers & Construction LLC for Alleged Violations of 16 NYCRR Part 753 - Protection of Underground Facilities, in the Service Territory of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. ORDER DETERMINING PENALTY AND DIRECTING PAYMENT BY THE COMMISSION: BACKGROUND   more