BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 12 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on July 11, 2024: Today, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Community Engagement Cabinet announced the 40 recipients of a $100,000 investment in youth sports programming serving BPS students through the Mayor's Youth Sports Grant. The Youth Sports Grant was first announced this spring and is an extension of the mayor's efforts to expand athletic opportunities available to Boston Public School (BPS) students and deepen   more

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colorado, July 12 -- The Army Space and Missile Defense Command issued the following news: By Brooke Nevins, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Col. Dani S. Williams became the first female commander of the United States' only missile defense brigade during a change of command ceremony on July 11 at Patriot Park, Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado. Col. Joseph Paladino relinquished command of the brigade to Williams during the ceremony, with Lt. Gen. Sean   more

WASHINGTON, July 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy posted the following news on July 10, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the latest round of cohorts in its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). Thirty-three innovators have been selected to be embedded across four U.S. national laboratories where they will work with an extensive network of mentors and experts to develop next-generation technologies. T  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Jennifer Parks, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch at Hanscom Air Force Base recently awarded a contract to Tomorrow Companies Inc., to build on a weather data constellation in orbit. Funded through the Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies program, the contract supports the developme  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 12 (TNSres) -- The city of Boston issued the following news: * * * The results of our recent Youth Quality Feedback Survey confirmed the impact BCYF has had on generation's of Boston's youth and families and has been known before only through individual stories. * * * Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) serves Boston youth and families in every neighborhood by providing opportunities for residents to thrive through programming, connection to resources, and   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on July 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - June 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.3 percent over the past month, up 3.8 percent from a year ago. * * * Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were up 0.3 percent in June, the U.S  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Mark Wyatt, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Base officials held a change of responsibility ceremony here July 9 to mark the transition of command chief duties from Chief Master Sgt. Alan Weary to Chief Master Sgt. Jason Vollmer. The ceremony, a first-ever at Hanscom AFB, was officiated by Col. Taona Enriquez. "This [ceremony] demonstrates to the formation that the responsib  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section's National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) announced today they convened the first Fraud Disruption Conference to work on efforts to combat a type of fraud commonly known as "pig butchering." It is estimated that Americans are scammed out of billions per  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: ARMY Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Co., Stratford, Connecticut, was awarded a $251,483,904 modification (P00056) to contract W58RGZ-22-C-0010 for UH-60M aircraft. Work will be performed in Stratford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of June 30, 2027. Fiscal 2024 aircraft procurement, Army funds; and Foreign Military Sales (Croatia and Jordan) funds in the amount of $251,483,904, were obligated   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: BOSTONA repeat convicted felon pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to criminal charges relating to possessing a firearm, multiple rounds of ammunition and fentanyl intended for distribution while on federal supervised release. Francisco Gabriel Diaz, 32, of Boston, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distrib  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: Today, July 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued updated recommendations under the Clean Water Act for contaminants that states, Tribes, and territories should consider monitoring in locally caught, freshwater fish. For the first time, EPA has added several per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) to the contaminant list alongside lead, three cyanotoxins, a flame retar  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the following enforcement news release: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section's National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) announced today they convened the first Fraud Disruption Conference to work on efforts to combat a type of fraud commonly known as "pig butchering." It is estimated that Americans are scammed out of billions per year  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Jerry Saslav, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Maj. Yaira Nevarez-Samshair took command of Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Detachment 7 here during a ceremony here July 10. Lt. Gen. Donna D. Shipton, commander, AFLCMC, presided over the ceremony, in which Lt. Col. Andrew Travis relinquished command. "Andy, you have been my on-site commander for military justice, personnel  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 12 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced the allocation of $6.7 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to enhance outreach and case-management services aimed at eradicating veteran homelessness in Massachusetts. This funding is for the Housing Outreach-to-Placement Effort (HOPE) campaign, an initiative under the broader $20 million End Veteran Homelessnes  more

HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Mark Herlihy, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Col. Jorge Jimenez assumed command of the 66th Air Base Group during a ceremony held at the Aero Club Hangar July 10. Lt. Gen. Donna D. Shipton, commander, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, presided over the event. "It is my pleasure to introduce Col. Jorge Jimenez and his family to the Hanscom family," she said during her  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection issued the following news release: The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) assessed an $11,722 penalty against Harbor Fuel Oil Corporation, a Nantucket-based fuel oil provider, for failing to obtain an air quality permit before building a tank farm that has the potential to emit air contaminants above MassDEP's air quality permitting thresholds. The Harbor Fuel facility began c  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 12 -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued the following news on July 11, 2024: * * * In the coming weeks, Narcan will be available to the public at Quincy Center, Ashmont, Andrew, South Station, and Harvard. * * * The MBTA today announced the installation of cabinets to support a Public Access Naloxone (Narcan) Pilot on the Red Line. In the coming weeks, Naloxone will be available to the public at Quincy Center, Ashmont, Andrew, South Station, an  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: RUTLAND, Vt.The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Melvin Hill, 45, who formerly lived in Tignall, Georgia, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Rutland following his trial conviction on five drug and gun charges. Chief U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford sentenced Hill to 180 months of imprisonment,   more

TAUNTON, Massachusetts, July 12 -- MassDevelopment, a development finance agency and land bank, issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: The Taunton Development/MassDevelopment Corporation (TD/MDC), real estate investment firm Rhino Capital Advisors LLC, and state and local officials today broke ground on a new state-of-the-art, 180,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility located on lot BP2 at the Business Park at Myles Standish in Taunton. In 2022, TD/MDC sold the last two u  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Yiyu (Jason) Wang, an R&D associate staff member in the Materials Science and Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will receive the Professor Koichi Masubuchi Award from the American Welding Society, or AWS. He will be presented with the honor at the 2024 AWS Annual Meeting in October in Orlando, Florida. The award is spon  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The White House sent to the Senate on July 11, 2024, the nominations of 13 individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE: Carl Whitney Bentzel, of Maryland, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner for a term expiring June 30, 2029. (Reappointment) Deborah Lynn Halvorson Bush, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Railroad Retirement Board for a term expiring August 28, 2027, vice Erhard R. Chorle, term expired. Keith D. Hanigan,   more