LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on April 15, 2024: * * * At a press conference in Malvern today, Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the deployment of a mobile health clinic run by Arkansas Mobile Opioid Recovery (ARMOR). Griffin issued the following statement: "This mobile health clinic will reach previously underserved and unserved Arkansans in need of treatment for opioid addiction. The $770,000 that my office grant  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 (TNSres) -- The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources issued the following news on April 15, 2024: The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) today announced that permits for the Northcentral Regional ATV Trail, formerly called the ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot, are now available for purchase. "There are more than 281,000 registered ATVs in the Commonwealth and DCNR understands the interest in expanding regional r  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 16 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, alongside 16 attorneys general, filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final particulate matter (PM) standards rule against legal challenges. Last month, EPA finalized the rule to strengthen National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine pa  more

ALBANY, New York, April 16 (TNSres) -- New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued the following news release: New York State's Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) has provided financing for over 2,000 essential local water infrastructure projects totaling more than $23.7 billion since 1990, but the estimated capital improvement needs for water and sewer projects far exceeds this amount, and tens of billions of dollars in local projects remain in the pipeline, according to a rep  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 16 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: A national coalition of state attorneys general filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of Texas in support of Attorney General Ken Paxton's top deputy, First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster, in a blatant case of politically motivated lawfare launched by the State Bar of Texas. The case originated in response to complaints against First Assistant Webster and Attorney General Paxton for   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL's Natalie Pekney, Ph.D., was awarded the Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department's Lieutenant Colonel Christopher K. Raible Distinguished Public Service Award during an alumni event held April 13 in Pittsburgh. The award recognizes alumni of CEE who have made significant contributions in military service or through   more

WASHINGTON, April 16 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57075) involving Beaver Valley Nuclear Plant, Pennsylvania: * * * Facility: Beaver Valley Region: 1 State: PA Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] W-3-LP,[2] W-3-LP NRC Notified By: James (Jake) Davis HQ OPS Officer: Thomas Herrity Notification Date: 04/13/2024 Notification Time: 03:55 [ET] Event Date: 04/13/2024 Event Time: 00:35 [EDT] Last Update Date: 04/13/2024 Emergency Class: Non Em  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Today, Governor Josh Shapiro's Administration formally certified that a record $900 million will be available for statewide property tax relief through the Department of Education and local school districts. As is required by Act 1 of 2006, Secretary of the Budget Uri Monson certified that this record amount of relief is sustainable for at least the next five years - and  more

BLOOMSBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Rep. Robert Leadbeter (R-Columbia) and the House Republican Policy Committee, led by Chairman Josh Kail (R-Beaver/Washington), convened the first in a series of hearings to discuss ways to foster economic growth in Pennsylvania through business-related tax reform last Thursday. The hearing, "Job-Creating Tax Reform," featured the following testifiers: Neal Lesher, direc  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Vladimir Tsymbalenko, 53, the former owner of Vlad's CDL School in Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 57 months' imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for bribing a Commercial Driver's License examiner to p  more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- 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 Jamie Smicherko, age 27, of Avoca, Pennsylvania, Patrick Russin, age 54, of Shavertown, Pennsylvania, Ryan Medar, age 36, of Jenkin Township, Pennsylvania, and Carlos Laurel, age 45, of White Haven, Pennsylvania, were indicted on April 9, 2024, by a federal grand j  more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 70 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for torturing an Estonian citizen in 2015 in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and for the illegal export of weapons parts and related services. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Ross Roggio, 55, of Strou  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island issued the following news release: Four Guatemalan nationals have been charged in federal court in Providence, RI, with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property and interstate transportation of stolen goods, having allegedly participated, with others, in a large-scale scheme to steal and re-sell high-value products from home improvement stores and other retailers in mu  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 16 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers intercepted two firearms in the last four days. This morning (April 15), a Franklin, Pa., man was caught with a gun and on Friday, April 12, an Ohio man was also caught with a firearm. The Franklin, Pa., man was caught with a .380 handgun loaded with seven bullets. The O  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 16 -- The University System of Georgia issued the following agency statement on April 15, 2024: * * * This website notice is intended to provide the same information included in the notification letters to individuals for whom the University System of Georgia (USG) has insufficient or out-of-date contact information. USG was involved in an incident that may affect the security of certain individuals' personal information. We want to provide affected individuals informat  more