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

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 22 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Department of Education to swiftly implement recently proposed regulations, which would provide needed relief for some of the nation's most burdened student loan borrowers and help address the student debt crisis. The proposed regulations would waive or reduce student loan repayment for certain   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on May 21, 2024: A Rhode Island man was sentenced today for his involvement in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) that distributed fentanyl throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Alfredo Valdez, 45 of Providence, R.I. was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release.   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island issued the following news release: A Mexican national who, at the direction of an individual incarcerated in a Maine prison, participated in the delivery of four pounds of methamphetamine to a courier who drove to Rhode Island from Maine to take possession of the drugs, has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. According to cou  more