WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: At 1:29 a.m. on March 26, the container ship M/V Dali lost power and rammed into one of the piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which carries Interstate 695 over the entrance to Baltimore Harbor, plunging a major portion of the bridge into the water. The crash killed six men who were working on the bridge and blocked one of the main ports of entry to the United States with more than 50,000 tons of debris. In   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 12 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: * * * Drivers for Paterson Luxury Car Shipping Firm to Receive $364,000 in Back Wages; Action Protects Employers Who Play by the Rules * * * Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo today jointly announced an agreement with Horseless Carriage Carrier, Inc., a Paterson  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 12 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on July 11, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul and District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb today led a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief urging a federal court to reject a challenge to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Discriminatory Effects Rule. The homeowners insurance industry is challenging the rule, which under the Fair Housing A  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PABEL MIGUEL ACOSTA-COLON, 36, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 22 months of imprisonment for distributing fentanyl. According to court do  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: ARMY Nakupuna Consulting LLC,* Arlington, Virginia, was awarded a $370,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the integration for functionality into the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army. Bids were solicited via the internet with five received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 9, 2031. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen Provin  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: NEWARK, N.J. Enforcement and Removal Operations Newark conducted targeted operations in Princeton July 10 to arrest two unlawfully present noncitizens. The first target, a 29-year-old Guatemalan national who had been removed twice from the United States, was charged earlier this year with simple assault, aggravated assault and robbery in Princeton. The Guatema  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 24-210) on July 12, 2024: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received Southwestern Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Texas (AT&T), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet si  more