ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: 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 over 22 clean school buses in six school districts across Georgia. The Program will help Georgia accelerate the transiti  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia in partnership with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office will launch the fourth annual Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Credible Messenger Youth Summer Violence Intervention Program ("Summer Mentorship Program"). The kick-off for this year's program will be held on May 31, 2024, at the Atlanta   more

AUGUSTA, Georgia, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia issued the following news release: A Richmond County man has been sentenced to nearly 15 years in federal prison after his conviction on drug trafficking and gun possession charges. Kelvin Laron Howard, 68, of Augusta, was sentenced to 175 months in prison after a U.S. District Court jury convicted him on charges of Possession with Intent to Distribute Heroin; Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance  more

ROME, Georgia, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia issued the following news release: James Lewallen Meeks, a Georgia Department of Corrections inmate, and two conspirators, Jamey Michael Latty and Mark Anthony Powell, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in trafficking firearms, methamphetamine, and fentanyl in Northwest Georgia. "While serving a sentence for a violent crime in a Georgia Correctional Facility, Meeks continued his cri  more

MOODY AFB, Georgia, May 31 -- The U.S. Air Force Moody Air Force Base (23rd Air Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Leonid Soubbotine, 23rd Wing Public Affairs The 71st Rescue Generation Squadron hosted engineers from Mercer Engineering Research Center to perform reliability-centered maintenance interviews and inflight refueling hose testing at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, May 20-21, 2024. Engineers from MERC collaborated with Airmen from various units and back shops to gat  more

MOODY AFB, Georgia, May 31 -- The U.S. Air Force Moody Air Force Base (23rd Air Wing) issued the following news: By Capt. Christian Little, 93 AGOW The U.S. Air Force's 822d Base Defense Squadron exercised their ability to provide area defense in support of austere air operations, May 6 to 9, 2024, during exercise Scorpion Fury at Camp Blanding, Fla. Throughout four days of continuous day and night operations, around 50 members from the 822d BDS defended a simulated rotary wing forward aerial  more