LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 29 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 28, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement after announcing that he and seven other state attorneys general are asking the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to take additional action against a Texas based robocaller for violating permanent robocall and telemarketing bans: "In March of last year, my office obtained  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Will Lower Energy Costs and Create Revenue for Rural Business Owners and Farms OMAHA, Neb., March 28, 2024 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $124 million in renewable energy and fertilizer production projects in 44 states to lower energy costs, generate new income and create   more

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 29 -- Cuyahoga County issued the following news release: Cuyahoga County is allocating more than $2.2 million to support community development and infrastructure projects in sixteen municipalities across the county. The grants, from the Cuyahoga County Community Development Block Grant Program, will help to improve roads, bolster public safety, and enhance city services. "We are proud to invest in our municipalities and support projects that strengthen our communities,"   more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers apprehended 216 unlawfully present noncitizens who have been convicted of drug trafficking or multiple drug possession related offenses involving methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, or synthetic drugs, during a nation-wide law enforcement effort that ran from M  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following news release: On Wednesday, March 27, Cleveland.com featured an op-ed by Arati Prabhakar, the President's chief advisor on science and technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), with a focus on new actions (https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2024/03/08/fact-sheet-biden-cancer-moonshot-announces-commitments-from-leading-health-insurers-and  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 29 -- The Indiana Senate Republicans issued the following news release: State Sen. Jean Leising (R-Oldenburg) is supporting constituents in Senate District 42 to call for the cancellation of the Link 101 Corridor Project in Southeast Indiana. The project would create a continuous north-south connection (called State Road 101) between U.S. 50 and the Markland Dam Bridge on the Ohio River, impacting Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn and Ripley counties. "I have attended m  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: A former Pike County, Ohio, Sheriff's Office deputy was sentenced today to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release for federal civil rights violations involving excessive force. In August 2023, Jeremy C. Mooney, 49, was convicted by a federal jury of two counts of violating a victim's constitutional rights by pepper spraying and punching the victim in the head, while t  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 28 -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following news release: Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is leading a coalition of all Republican attorneys general in asking the Environmental Protection Agency to drop a proposed regulation that would cost meat and poultry processors millions. Under the proposed rule, the EPA will regulate meat and poultry processing plants with indirect wastewater discharges, or wastewater that goes through a city sewage treatment  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news brief: * * * Wage and Hour Division investigation assessed $38K in civil money penalties * * * Employers: Neubert Painting Inc., Brook Park, Ohio John Neubert, owner Action: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation Investigation: The department's Wage and Hour Division investigation found Neubert Painting Inc. and owner John Neubert violated the Fair Labor Standards   more

LANSING, Michigan, March 29 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to take stronger action against John Caldwell Spiller II after Spiller violated permanent robocall and telemarketing bans. Nessel filed alongside seven other state attorneys general represented on the original March 2023 judgment against Spiller for directing billions  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota issued the following news release: Two individuals from Detroit, Michigan, have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. According to court documents, beginning in January 2022 through May 2023, Ladale Jajaum Solomon, 30, and Leila Darsel Ivery, 30, conspired together to distribute cocaine. On May 16, 2023, Solomon and Ivery flew on se  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- NASA issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: NASA has selected small business Firelake-Arrowhead NASA Services Joint Venture of Lawrence, Kansas, to acquire construction management, inspection, surveying, and testing services at NASA centers across the country. The Construction Management, Inspection, Surveying, and Testing (CMIST-II) contract was competed as a Small Business 8(a) set-aside, and the maximum contract value is approximately $38.8 million. Th  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 90.0 million acres of corn in 2024, down 5% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Planted acreage intentions for corn are down or unchanged in 38 of the 48 estimating states. A  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 29 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: Following his declaration of 2024 as the Year of Public Schools, Governor Roy Cooper is illustrating the risks the extreme Republican voucher plan poses to children and public schools, where more than 8 in 10 North Carolina children attend school. Today, the Governor released a new video walking through the problems with this voucher plan on steroids, along with a new fac  more