WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Community Living issued the following news: ACL is pleased to announce the 2024 awardees of falls prevention grants. The six selected grantees include health care systems, academic institutions, municipalities, and community-based organizations. They will receive approximately $3.5 million in combined funding to implement an array of evidence-based falls prevention programs in six states across the countr  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news on May 21, 2024: By C. Todd Lopez, DOD News At the Pentagon today, the Defense Department recognized the top-level performance of more than two dozen department and service employees who work in the sexual assault prevention and response community. * * * I am in awe of each of you who bring this work to life; you play a critical role in tackling one of the department's toughest challenges. ... This can be really d  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 22 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 20-state lawsuit challenging a new Biden mandate that creates roadblocks for infrastructure projects by forcing social, environmental, and race-based regulations on developers. The mandate eliminates President Trump's common-sense reforms that streamlined development, to instead force Biden's radical green agenda. With the mandate in  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 22 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: Today, Governor Kim Reynolds authorized a Proclamation of Disaster Emergency for 15 counties in response to severe weather that occurred on May 21. The governor's proclamation allows state resources to be utilized to respond to and recover from the effects of the severe weather and activates the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program and Disaster Case Advocacy Program for the following co  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Timothy Mullally, 48, from Le Mars, Iowa, pled guilty on May 16, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and one count of prohibited person in possession of firearms. At the plea hearing, Mullally admitted that between January 2022 through September 2022, he and others distributed more than two kilograms of meth  more