LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 10 -- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the following appointments: * * * Board of Trustees of Southern Arkansas University Gary Sewell, El Dorado, to the Board of Trustees of Southern Arkansas University. Term expires January 14, 2029. Replaces Erica Woods. * * * Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Board Andy Davis, Roland, to the Graduate Medical Education Residenc  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Gilberto Pedraza Contreras will spend the next 135 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down today by United States District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky.   more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of Education issued the following news release: Department of Education releases new state-by-state numbers showing the effect of four major discharge program proposals for the 4 million borrowers who have already been approved for relief The Biden-Harris Administration today released initial details of a new set of plans that would provide student debt relief for tens of millions of borrowers across the country. The plans would bring the total   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The average domestic air fare of $396 in the third quarter of 2014 was virtually the same as the average fare in the third quarter of 2013, adjusted for inflation (Table 1), the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. During the July to September 2014 period, passengers originating in Cincinnat  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 10 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody, and a coalition of five other state attorneys general, today filed suit against the Biden administration's latest attempt to force Americans to pay someone else's debt. The lawsuit targets what the federal government calls the "SAVE" Plan, which in reality will cost Americans $475 billion--$45 billion more than its last unlawful student loan   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against West Memphis School District (WMSD) for denying an employee's request for a reasonable accommodation of temporary telework, in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA requires that employers provide reasonable accommodatio  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following readout of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke's trip to Eastern Shore, Maryland, on April 8, 2024: * * * Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division traveled to the Eastern Shore of Maryland on April 8 to continue the division's tour to engage with stakeholders in underserved communities and reaffirm the department's commitment to protecting the civil rights of all  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 10 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey led a seven-state coalition in filing suit against the Biden Administration's latest illegal student loan plan. His lawsuit targets what the federal government calls the "SAVE" Plan, which in reality will cost Americans $475 billion - $45 billion more than its last unlawful student loan plan. "With the stroke of his pen  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: On April 15, the National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Jefferson National Parks Association (JNPA), will begin accepting applications for the Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative (LMDI) grants for cultural heritage and educational projects in the Delta region, spanning Southern Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. Applications are due by May 31.The LM  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the Searcy County Government, Arkansas, to support manufacturing business growth. This grant will renovate a building in Marshall, Arkansas to support the establishment of a frozen foods manufacturin  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 10 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Chiaverini v Napoleon over a Fourth Amendment question. The brief, which was led by the State of Iowa, argues that the length-of-detention rule supersedes a charge-specific rule when determining Fourth Amendment violations by the government. Jason Chiaverini, a jewelry store owner, purchased items illegally   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet: * * * Extreme House Republican Plan Would Hurt American Workers While Rigging the Economy for Big Corporations and the Wealthy State-by-state analysis shows how the Republican Study Committee budget would gut job training and workforce development programs that strengthen our economy and create pathways to good jobs President Biden is building our economy from the middle out and bottom up--an economy where we in  more