PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase five clean school buses in four school districts across West Virginia. The Program will help accelerate the transition to zero  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help selectees purchase 116 clean school buses in 18 school districts across Virginia. The Program will help Virginia accelerate the transition to z  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, May 30 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: Physicist Holly Szumila-Vance has always been curious about how the world works. Throughout her career, she has never been afraid to tackle new and tough challenges to satisfy that curiosity. In doing so, she has helped reveal new details of how the ubiquitous proton interacts with the strong force inside matter. Now, her work to reveal the nature of matter at t  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of West Virginia to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides from April 11-12, 2024. Public Assistance federal funding is available to the state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a c  more

NORFOLK, Virginia, May 30 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: By Ensign Colby James, USS Iwo Jima Public Affairs Officer Capt. Brian Hamel relieved Capt. Stephen Froehlich as USS Iwo Jima's 17th commanding officer during a May 17 ceremony held at Naval Station Norfolk. Froehlich led the LHD 7 crew of for the past two years, overseeing a maintenance period, the ship's transition from the General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) shipy  more

HARRISONBURG, Virginia, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release: The former executive director of the Economic Development Authority of Front Royal and Warren County (EDA), who was convicted in November of last year of stealing more than $5 million dollars in authority funds, was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison. Jennifer Rae McDonald, 45, of Front Royal, Virginia, was convicted following a 9-week jury trial   more

RICHMOND, Virginia, May 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: A King and Queen County man was sentenced today to five years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents, on March 17, 2022, a King and Queen County Sheriff's Office Deputy responded to a report that George Franklin Gibson Jr., 34, was sitting in his truck at the end of a driveway, in violatio  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: An Oregon man was sentenced today to eight years and six months in prison for conspiracy to distribute massive amounts of both fentanyl and methamphetamine. According to court documents, Sean Michael Johnson, 26, is a long-time supplier of narcotics to customers across the nation. Law enforcement learned that, dating back to at least May 2020,   more

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, May 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Timothy Chad Henson, the owner of Clearfiber, Inc., an internet service provider in Monongalia County, has admitted to defrauding the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Henson, 35, of Morgantown, West Virginia, pled guilty today to money laundering. According to court documents and statements made in court, the USDA's Community Connect   more