OAKLAND, California, May 1 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a broad, bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general in submitting letters to U.S. House and Senate leaders urging them to fund the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in full. LSC is funded by federal appropriation and is a critical compliment to state and other funding for legal aid. LSC provides civil legal services to low-i  more

OAKLAND, California, May 1 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 14 attorneys general in an amicus brief in support of Delaware's election officials, who are defending a challenge to Delaware's early voting law in Albence v. Mennella. In the case, a trial court ruled that Delaware's constitutional provisions, which set the date of the statewide general election as the Tuesda  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recognized outstanding employee performance April 22 in the first in-person Commissioner's Annual Award Ceremony since 2019, in D.C. "The people and accomplishments we are recognizing are representative of the amazing things CBP does every single day, across the country, and around the world," said Troy A. Miller, Senior Offici  more

CAPE COD SPACE FORCE STATION, Massachusetts, May 1 -- Peterson and Schriever Space Force Base issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Joshua Hollis, Buckley Space Force Base Public Affairs Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman visited Guardians and Airmen at the 6th Space Warning Squadron at Cape Cod Space Force Station, Massachusetts, April 26. Saltzman's visit highlighted the work Guardians accomplish at Cape Cod SFS by providing early detection of missile threats that enable  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 1 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: The Department of the Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator Program developed a new tool, the Puckboard Intelligent Recommendation Engine, which has the potential to improve mission readiness through smarter, more efficient aircrew mission and training scheduling. Aided by modern web and algorithm technologies, the DAF-AIA delivered a collection of novel methods for building in  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following remarks on April 29, 2024, by Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas at the #SummerReady Extreme Heat Summit: * * * Victoria, thanks so much - thanks for the incredible work you do every day, and thanks to all of you for giving me a chance to share some thoughts. You know, here in Washington and across the country, it has been a beautiful spring week. We do not expect it to remain so for long, though. Last summer w  more

TAMPA, Florida, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued the following news release: United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Timothy Neal (46, Boston, MA) has pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl. Neal faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. According to court documents, on April 26, 2022, Neal's co-defendant, Haley Eaton, sold two bags of fentanyl to Neal. The next day, Neal pur  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 1 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 39 attorneys general, urged Congress to allocate the maximum amount of funding for the grant-making organization Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in the FY2025 budget. Each year, LSC awards field grants to a network of nonprofit legal service providers who extend legal assistance to low-income Americans in every county, state a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: The Attorney General's Office announced a $50,000 settlement with Senior Life Insurance Company (SLIC), to resolve allegations that the company engaged in a pattern of misleading content distribution suggesting the private company was affiliated with a government agency. Under the terms of the Assurance of Discontinuance, SLIC will pay $50,000 to the Commonwealth, and make con  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally selling a dozen machinegun conversion devices. Michael Wilkerson, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to 20 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release. In February 2024, Wilkerson pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The co-owner of a Mattapan plumbing and heating supply company was charged today with filing false tax returns in connection with a scheme to use millions of dollars of unreported receipts of the business to buy gold bars. Claudio Poles, 78, of Dorchester, was charged with four counts of filing false tax returns. According to the charging docum  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: A Stoughton man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to his role in a wide-ranging fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Angel Morales, 52, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 1 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has joined a letter of appeal led by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) urging leaders of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to provide maximum funding for grant-making organization Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in the FY2025 budget. Each year, LSC awards field grants to a network of nonprofit legal service providers who   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Sixteen individuals were charged in connection with a sprawling "grandparent scam" to defraud hundreds of elderly Americans out of millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Eleven men from the Dominican Republic are charged in a 19-count indictment with mail and wire fraud conspiracy; wire fraud; mail fraud; conspiracy to  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: The U.S. Navy's Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) program launched the Southern California Talent Pipeline Program in Newport Beach, California, April 26. The Southern California Talent Pipeline Program will engage hundreds of shipbuilding and ship sustainment suppliers across the region to create maritime-focused manufacturing pipelines that revitalize the defense workforce by addressing critical skill gaps. "The   more

WASHINGTON, May 1 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Creating heat from fusion reactions requires carefully manipulating the properties of plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible universe. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have finished building a new plasma measurement instrument, or diagnostic, that could aid  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, May 1 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, Governor Kristi Noem and 52 of her fellow governors oppose legislation that disregards gubernatorial authority over the National Guard, Legislative Proposal 480. The bipartisan group of governors sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The full letter can be found here. Governor Noem understands the importance of her role as Commander in Chief of the Sou  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty today to multiple felony and misdemeanor offenses, including assaulting law enforcement during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Her actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Jacquelyn Starer,   more

BURLINGTON, Vermont, May 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that Juan Carlos "JC" Ortiz, 29, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Christina Reiss to a term of 95 months' imprisonment to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release. Ortiz had previously pleaded guilty to conspiring with others  more