NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 7 -- The Tennessee Arts Commission issued the following news: The National Endowment for the Arts announced 19 Tennessee arts organizations in each of Tennessee's three grand divisions are receiving a total of $1,495,250 in grants. The recipients are: ArtsBuild, Big Ears Festival, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley, Hattiloo Theatre, Indie Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Inc. (aka The Brooks), National Ornamental Metal Museum (aka Metal Museum), New Bal  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Their waterlogged footsteps were historic. That thought, however, most likely wasn't on the Soldiers' minds as they stepped ashore from rocking landing craft onto the French coast. Instead, the focus for most Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, Virginia Army National Guard, was simply making it across the beach -- Omaha Beach -- a  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Aneta Veedmont, AFIMSC Public Affairs Air Force Civil Engineer Center Wildland Support Module specialists at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, are taking action to preserve sacred ceremonial rock art located on the installation to protect the indigenous cultural heritage while supporting the Department of the Air Force's military mission. Located on California's cent  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following program update on June 6, 2024: To: State, Territory, and Tribal Agricultural Regulatory Officials On May 20, 2024, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) expanded the Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens; Mexfly) quarantine areas in Texas, designated the Harlingen Quarantine and the Sebastian Quarantine, w  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By AJ Pulkkinen and Zach Shapiro, MyCG writers The Coast Guard is honoring eight winners of the 2024 Coast Guard Inspirational Leadership Awards and the Navy League Leadership Awards. Coast Guard Commandant ADM Linda L. Fagan, Vice Commandant ADM Steven D. Poulin and the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Heath B. Jones called the winners to inform and congratulate them personally.   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Education Activity issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Dr. Jacob Sherwood, Pacific West District Superintendent, is pleased to announce the selection of Amber Dumond as Instructional Systems Specialist for Pre-K. Ms. Amber Dumond has served as an educator in Texas and Arkansas for more than a decade before joining DoDEA in 2018 as an Educational Technologist in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Prior to transitioning to the  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news brief on June 6, 2024: * * * Food truck operator LJ2 Investments LLC failed to pay overtime wages, keep required records * * * Employer name: LJ2 Investments LLC, operating as Jasso Express Investigation site: 805 E. Ferguson Ave., Pharr, TX 78577 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found LJ2 Investments LLC - operator of Jasso Express food trucks -   more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Natalia Perez, AFIMSC Public Affairs Armed with data from nearly 10 years of investigation and response to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance, or PFAS, releases at its installations, the Department of the Air Force is rolling new regulatory standards into its ongoing plan to address PFAS risks. "The key here is that we have a plan, and we will implement it," said Jenni Dors  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following transcript of a news briefing on June 5, 2024, by Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh: * * * DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY SABRINA SINGH: Just a few things at the top, and then happy to jump in and take questions. Tomorrow, Secretary Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General CQ Brown will join President Biden to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the D-Day operation, Operation Overlord, where thousa  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Stressful station-to-station moves due to poor quality service and broken or delayed household goods could soon be a thing of the past. This summer, U.S. Transportation Command kicked off implementation of its new Global Household Goods contract, or GHC, which aims to make the movement of household goods a better experience all around for service membe  more

GOODFELLOW AFB, Texas, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Goodfellow Air Force Base (17th Training Wing) issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Nathan Call, 17th Training Wing Public Affairs The 17th Comptroller Squadron conducted a change of command ceremony at the Powell Event Center, June 4. The 17th CPTS and Wing Staff Agencies welcomed incoming commander, Maj. Kelly Griffith, and thanked the outgoing commander, Maj. Justin Moore, for his hard work and dedication to the 17th Training Wing. M  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: The term D-Day was a shorthand expression first used in World War I to denote the date an operation was to be launched. In the earlier war, officers also used H-HOUR and M-MINUTE, but these were seldom used in World War II. Because of the scope of the 1944 operation and the momentous stakes, in common parlance, "D-Day" has come to refer primarily to   more

LANSING, Michigan, June 7 -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Michigan, issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Today, Governor Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter (https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/MIEOG/2024/06/06/file_attachments/2900373/Request%20for%20Presidential%20Declaration_24-05-07-Region%205-Tornado.pdf) to President Joe Biden requesting a Major Disaster Declaration and activation of the federal individual assistance (IA) programs for Branch, Cass, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph c  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: Military and support personnel assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio gathered on June 6 to commemorate the 82nd Anniversary of the Battle of Midway at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. The Battle of Midway, one of the most important battles of the Pacific campaign in World War II, occurred between June 4-7, 1942. It i  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, June 7 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute issued the following news release: * * * The NIH-funded Genomic Data Science Community Network unites institutions from across the country to diversify young researchers working in genomic data science. * * * In sunny central California, Rosa Alcazar, Ph.D., spends her days teaching biology at Clovis Community College. For the past few years, she has been bringing an unusual ad  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news on June 6, 2024: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has technical and financial assistance available to help farmers and livestock producers across Texas recover from recent tornadoes and severe weather. Impacted producers should contact their local USDA Service Center to report losses and learn more about program options available to assist in their recovery from c  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Today, the National Transportation Safety Board found that the lack of critical safety technology and incorrect assumptions by an air traffic controller led to a near-collision between a Southwest Airlines B-737 and FedEx B-767 on an Austin, Texas runway last year. On the morning of Feb. 4, 2023, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was covered with dense fog, limiting visibility  more

LAUGHLIN AFB, Texas, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: By Capt. Christine Del Aguila, 47th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs The 47th Flying Training Wing conducted Operation Titan Haymaker, a large-scale exercise, May 23, 2024, to familiarize first-term enlisted Airmen and Company Grade Officers on what to expect in an austere deployed environment. The exercise employed Agile Combat Employment (ACE) elements into the objectives. "We  more

HOUSTON, Texas, June 7 -- The Texas A&M University System issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Six years ago, Dr. Roderic Pettigrew came to Texas A&M University to start and lead a one-of-a-kind School of Engineering Medicine (ENMED). Today there is nowhere else in the world where students earn a medical degree and an engineering master's degree in the same four years while also training as inventors of innovative solutions to common health care problems. ENMED just graduated it  more

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas, June 6 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (16th Air Force) issued the following news: The Commander regrets to announce the death of Airmen 1st Class Wylie H. Parker III, assigned to the 35th Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, who passed away on May 31, 2024. To settle the estate of the deceased, Capt. Christine Beckett, assigned to the 35th Intelligence Squadron, has been appointed as Summary Courts Officer, or  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following statement on June 6, 2024: * * * Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement after today's argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas's concertina wire lawsuit against the federal government. "Today, Texas made an outstanding case for our right to defend our State and protect our property from destruction by the federal government. We emphasized that a judge found th  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into several car manufacturers after widespread reporting that they have secretly been collecting mass amounts of data about drivers directly from their vehicles and then selling that data to third parties--including to insurance providers. The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act authorizes the Office of the Attorney   more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released a legal ruling in response to a request for records under the Public Information Act reiterating that governmental entities have a legal duty to redact any personally identifying information on voters' ballots when a Public Information Act request is made. In Texas, voters have an absolute constitutional right to ballot secrecy. Public information laws g  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on June 6, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that he added six counties to the state's disaster declaration for Texas communities impacted by recent severe weather that began on April 26 and remains ongoing. The counties added include Bailey, Bowie, Cass, Midland, Red River, and Terrell counties. Additional counties may be added at a later date as damage assessments are completed. "As Texans across t  more

HOUSTON, Texas, June 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas issued the following news release: Two individuals are now in custody for allegedly conspiring to submit numerous fraudulent applications for small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program provided through the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. Authorities have arr  more

LAUGHLIN AFB, Texas, June 7 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Harrison Sullivan, 47th Flying Training Wing The United Service Organizations (USO) visited Laughlin June 2-3, 2024, with their Mobile National Football League (NFL) Gaming Trailer, boosting the morale of Airmen and base residents. The NFL gaming trailer held two events, one geared towards Airmen and the other for families. The NFL gaming trailer is the only unit  more