WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This is the story of a necropsy and the clues it revealed, one by one, about what ended the life of a young humpback whale. It died in May 2024 off the Oregon Coast. A necropsy of a stranded whale provides a rare glimpse into the life of the animal, its species, and the marine ecosystem on which it depends. Autopsies on humans help divulge the cause of death and contributing factors. Similarly  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, June 29 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Seattle District issued the following news release on June 28, 2024: Brig. Gen. William C. "Bill" Hannan, Jr. assumed command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division in a ceremony at Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River today. Brig. Gen. Geoff Van Epps, who led the division since 2021, relinquished command to Maj. Gen. William Graham, deputy Chief of Engineers and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Arm  more

OAKLAND, California, June 29 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: California Attorney General Rob Bonta led 20 attorneys general in filing a multistate amicus brief in States of Texas and Montana v. Becerra et al., opposing the State of Texas and Montana's motion for a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and stay of agency action against the Biden administration's 2024 Final Rule implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affo  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, June 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy order. "This decision is a definitive rebuke of the Sackler family's abuse of the bankruptcy code. The U.S. Supreme Court got it right--billionaire wrongdoers should not be allowed to shield blood money in bankruptcy court  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: The National Transportation Safety Board announced a series of restrictions and sanctions on Boeing after the company blatantly violated NTSB investigative regulations-and Boeing's signed party agreement with the NTSB-by providing non-public investigative information to the media and speculating about possible causes of the Jan. 5 door-plug blowout on a Boeing passenger jet in Portland, Oregon. D  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Michael Joseph Taylor, 39, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Daniel J. Calabretta to 17 years and six months in prison to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, in 2022 and 2  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: * * * Board Unanimously Approves Battery Storage Production Deal for Oregon firm, supports hundred U.S. jobs * * * The bipartisan Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) today unanimously approved a $50 million financing package to small business ESS Inc. under the Make More in America (MMIA) Initiative to finance the construction of several new long-  more

STEVENSON, Washington, June 28 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve issued the following remarks on June 27, 2024, by Governor Michelle W. Bowman at the Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Washington Bankers Associations 2024 Annual Convention on economy, monetary policy and bank regulation: * * * I would like to thank the Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington Bankers Associations for the invitation to join you this morning./1 It's a pleasure to be here in Washington State to speak with your members. Direct   more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The National Academy of Engineering issued the following news release: Seventy-six highly accomplished, early-career engineers have been selected to participate in the 2024 The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Engineers who are performing exceptional research and technical work in a variety of disciplines will come together to share new techniques and approaches across fields, facili  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Bend, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison for possessing 20 pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. Isaac Kitashima, 48, was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, from August 2020 through June 2021, Kitashima and co-conspirators conducted a multi-state drug trafficking operation  more

EUGENE, Oregon, June 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release: A Springfield, Oregon member of an international drug trafficking organization operating in Lane County, Oregon, was sentenced to federal prison. Rodolfo Arroyo-Segoviano, 38, was sentenced to 145 months in federal prison and three years' supervised release. According to court documents, between April and August 2020, Arroyo-Segoviano managed the local distribution network  more

SALEM, Oregon, June 28 -- Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * "Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the reorganization plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, that would have released members of the Sackler family, (owners of Purdue) from any future liability for claims against them. Specifically, in a 5-4 vote, the Court ruled that, as part of a bankruptcy reorganization, the law does not allow the bankruptcy court to "disch  more

SALEM, Oregon, June 28 -- Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * "We are relieved that the Supreme Court did the right thing (in "legal speak" vacated its stay of the preliminary injunction) in Idaho v. United States. The bottom line is--at least for now--pregnant persons can legally receive abortion care in medical emergencies in Idaho and other states that ban abortions. This decision left undecided critical issues like whether Idaho ac  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 29 (TNSres) -- The Arizona State Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Supreme Court Agrees with Republican-Led Arizona State Legislature in Legal Battle to Address Crime-Ridden Tent Cities * * * A major victory in the fight to address Arizona's homeless crisis after the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled in favor of the position argued by Senate President Warren Petersen in an amicus brief (https://www.azsenaterepublicans.gov/_files/ugd/82  more