WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it has enrolled 401,006 Veterans in VA health care over the past 365 days -- 30% more than the 307,831 it enrolled the previous year. This is the most yearly enrollees in at least the past five years at VA, and nearly a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020. The number of new enrollees increased in all 50 states yea  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 30 -- Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Attorney General Kris Mayes today joined efforts to safeguard Americans' access to abortion care during medical emergencies. As part of a multistate coalition of 24 attorneys general, Attorney General Mayes filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in Idaho v. U.S. and Moyle v. U.S., urging the court to maintain a preliminary injunction that required Idaho hosp  more

MARANA, Arizona, March 30 -- The Arizona Commerce Authority issued the following news on March 29, 2024: Ascent Aviation Services, one of the largest independent aircraft aftermarket services providers in the world, broke ground today at Pinal Airpark in Marana, Arizona, on two new wide-body aircraft hangars to establish a North American conversion site to carry out passenger-to-freighter conversions and heavy maintenance. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs joined executives from Ascent Aviation Ser  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on March 28, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * In January 2024, there were a total of 6,124,000 unemployed people and 8,863,000 job openings in the United States, yielding a ratio of 0.7 unemployed person per job opening. The national job openings rate was 5.3 percent. Maryland and North Dakota were among the states with the lowest numbers of unemployed people per job openin  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 30 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Lee Ann Eager, of San Diego, has been reappointed to the California Transportation Commission, where she has served since 2020. Eager was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Fresno County Economic Development Board from 2009 to 2023. She was an Attorney at Lang, Richert & Patch from 2005 to 2009. Eag  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release: Rondell Cramer, 45, of San Francisco, was sentenced today to five years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully dealing in firearms, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, on June 1, 2022, while driving in Fairfield, Cramer was pulled over for driving a vehicle without a license plat  more

LUKE AFB, Arizona, March 30 -- The U.S. Air Force's 56th Fighter Wing issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Mason Hargrove, 56th Fighter Wing U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Ned McCaster III, 56th Component Maintenance Squadron maintenance instructor, was awarded the Semper Fidelis Coach Award, March 15, 2024, at Peoria High School, Peoria, Arizona. The Semper Fi Coach Award honors high school coaches who exemplify the Marine Corps values of honor, courage, and commitment. McCaster's nomina  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 30 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of today a coalition of 24 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in Idaho v. United States and Moyle v. United States urging the court to protect access to emergency abortion care in Idaho, consistent with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). In the brief (https://illino  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 2:24-cv-00636-JJT; D. Ariz. filed March 22, 2024) involving Christopher E. Galvin: * * * The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that, on March 22, 2024, it charged Christopher E. Galvin with conducting an alleged offering fraud through a fund he claimed would make investments in companies related to the cannabis industry. The SEC's complaint alleges that, in 2019, Galvin forme  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 30 -- North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein issued the following news release: Attorney General Josh Stein filed a friend-of-the-court brief that seeks to safeguard Americans' access to abortion care during medical emergencies. Attorney General Stein and a coalition of 24 attorneys general are urging the U.S. Supreme Court in two consolidated cases to uphold a preliminary injunction that requires Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortion care under the fe  more

NEW YORK, March 30 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: New York State Attorney General Letitia James today spearheaded efforts to safeguard Americans' access to abortion care during medical emergencies. Co-leading a multistate coalition of 24 attorneys general with California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Attorney General James filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in (https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/amicus-cur  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the availability and individual state allocations of approximately $811 million in funding to states, territories, and native entities to empower individuals and communities with the tools, skills, and opportunities to  more

NEW YORK, March 30 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on March 29, 2024, at a campaign event: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) You're incredible. You're -- really, you're incredible. (Applause.) Folks, please -- please have a seat. Sit down. I'm not going to take much of your time. I came to say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You know, one of -- a couple of us have been doing this more than a year or two. (Laughter.) I don't ever r  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 30 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Small nonfarm businesses in 15 Arizona counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Busine  more

SACRAMENTO, California, March 30 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Small nonfarm businesses in 15 Arizona counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans o  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release: Jesus Angel Vasquez Balganon, 33, of Mexico, pleaded guilty on March 14, 2024, to Smuggling Goods from the United States and International Money Laundering. Vasquez Balganon is scheduled to be sentenced on May 23, 2024, by United States District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps. Vasquez Balganon admitted that, between March of 2018 and January of 2021, and on April 6, 2021, he att  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Oliver Jaramillo Brown, 34, of Tucson, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to six years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Brown pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Methamphetamine on June 27, 2023. Brown was involved in a Nogales, Sonora-based drug traffic  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Earlier this month, a federal grand jury in Phoenix returned a 30-count indictment against Kenneth Harrison, 44, and Courtney Haywood, 38, of Las Vegas, Nevada on 30 felony counts related to their Arizona-based company, Aurtism, LLC, which was used to defraud the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) of over $9.4 million. Harrison and Hayw  more