HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Mark Wyatt, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Members of the workforce are invited to attend a change of command ceremony at which Col. Taona Enriquez will relinquish command of the 66th Air Base Group to Col. Jorge Jimenez July 10 at 9 a.m. in the Aero Club Hangar. Lt. Gen. Donna Shipton, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, will preside over the ceremony. Jimenez m  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news: Mayor Michelle Wu joined the family of the late Paula Titus, Boston Parks Commissioner Ryan Woods, elected officials, park neighbors, and the Highland Park community on June 4, 2024, to cut the ribbon on Paula Titus Park. Located at 66 Fort Avenue in Roxbury, the 8,000-square-foot park was funded with $35,000 from the Community Preservation Act and $850,000 in construction funding through the City's capital bu  more

LOWELL, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, met with Congresswoman Lori Trahan, the town leaders of Clinton, Lawrence and Lowell, other stakeholders, to celebrate their awards from the pot of $34,646,400 in grant awards from President Biden's Investing in America agenda to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in Massachusetts while advancing environme  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Guatemalan national charged with raping a minor in Bristol County. Deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested Yader Alexander Morales-Quevedo, a 24-year-old, Guatemalan noncitizen in New Bedford. "Yader Alexander Morales-Quevedo will have his day in court, but he is facin  more

BROOKLINE, Massachusetts, June 11 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today launched a first-in-the-nation public education campaign highlighting the dangers and potential harm of anti-abortion centers, also called "crisis pregnancy centers." Anti-abortion centers often look like medical facilities and purport to offer the full spectrum of reproductive health care while, in reality, the  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, June 11 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is moving forward on a project to gain new insight into the interactions of electrons. The MOLLER experiment will make an extremely precise measurement of the electron's force field to learn about specific and rare interactions with other subatomic particles. On May 28, the experiment  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued the following order (MDL No. 3083): * * * IN RE: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation TRANSFER ORDER Before the Panel: Plaintiffs in three actions pending in the Eastern District of Arkansas and the Northern and Southern Districts of California and defendant M&T Bank Corporation in two Western District of New York actions (the M&T Bank actions) move under Panel Rule 7.1 to vacate the Panel's orders conditi  more

WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A federal jury convicted a Massachusetts man on Friday for conspiring to defraud the United States. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Jason Pecoy, of Wilbraham, conspired with his father Kent Pecoy and Kevin Kennedy to conceal income from the IRS. Jason Pecoy was a project manager at Kent Pecoy and Sons Construction Inc., which was owned by Kent Pecoy. Kevin Ken  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today unveiled a comprehensive work plan outlining strategies to protect and manage forest lands while prioritizing efforts to address climate change impacts. This plan represents a significant milestone in the "Forests as Climate Solutions" Initiative and presents a detailed timeline for putting into acti  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A Lowell man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearms and drug offenses. Ricardo Colon, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to 66 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Colon pleaded guilty in March 2024 to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentan  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: Two individuals have been sentenced in federal court in Boston for their roles in a multi-state scheme to obtain millions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds for themselves and others through the submission of dozens of fraudulent applications to PPP lenders. Adiana Pierre, 39, of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., was sentenced on June 7, 2024 by U.S.   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A Boston-area man was sentenced on Friday, June 7, 2024 for illegally possessing a firearm while under house arrest for three state firearm charges. Trevon Bell, 27, of Boston and Lynn, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to 78 months in prison, and three years of supervised release. Bell pleaded guilty to being  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 11 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: Attorney General Brown, along with the attorneys general of Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, today led a coalition of 14 attorneys general advocating for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to standardize the federal rules on screening public housing applicants with criminal records. The coalition's comment letter responds to a HUD notice   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, June 4 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. DW 24-071) involving Pennichuck Water Works Inc.: * * * Petition for Approval of Special Contract with Tyngsborough Water District COMMENCEMENT OF ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDING AND NOTICE OF PREHEARING CONFERENCE On May 6, 2024, Pennichuck Water Works, Inc. (PWW) filed a petition requesting that the Commission approve a second special contract between it and the Tyngsborough Water Distri  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, June 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire issued the following news release on June 10, 2024: A former Derry woman was sentenced today in federal court for her role in submitting fraudulent applications for COVID-19 pandemic relief funds and stealing more than $200,000 from taxpayers, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces. Tammy Dodge, 44, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Paul J. Barbadoro to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison a  more

WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the following news release: Thank you very much to Harvard Law School, the Program on International Financial Systems, the China Development Research Foundation, and Professor Hal Scott for inviting me to speak. I'm honored to join this week's symposium. My remarks will focus on one element of the evolving U.S.-China relationship, the Financial Working Group co-chaired by the U.S. Treasury and People's Bank of China, and the im  more