SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, July 16 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following news: In an office tucked under the stairs, Patricia Bridges sits, pen in hand, surrounded by black-and-white photographs of ridges, ravines and craters. Bridges' talent with an airbrush is known well enough to her colleagues at the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center in St. Louis. But her work is secret. She's in hiding, professionally-speaking. It's 1959. Bridges, only a few years out of  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND Alaska Marine Lines Inc., Seattle, Washington (HTC71124DW001); American President Lines LLC, Arlington, Virginia (HTC71124DW002); American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier LLC, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (HTC71124DW003); Crowley Government Services Inc., Jacksonville, Florida (HTC71124DW004); Farrell Lines Inc., Norfolk, Virginia (HTC71124DW005); Federated Maritime LLC, Boca Raton, Flor  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations D.C. apprehended a previously removed 26-year-old Salvadoran national convicted of a sex crime against a Virginia minor. Deportation officers from ERO D.C.'s Special Response Team arrested Geovany Alex Pineda-Echeverria June 28 in Woodbridge, Virginia. "In addition to repeatedly disregarding American immigration laws, Geovan  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced that she has authorized the National Park Service to prepare a potential nomination for 11 U.S. Civil Rights Movement sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Virginia and DC to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. If designated, the sites would join other cultural and natural sites of universal importance, such as Grand Ca  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal court on July 2 enjoined a West Virginia company and its owner from manufacturing, distributing or selling unauthorized nicotine vaping products. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, the government alleged that Soul Vapor LLC and the company's owner, Aurelius Jeffrey, violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) by causing tobacco   more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, July 16 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following remarks on July 15, 2024, by Director Vice Adm. Frank "Trey" Whitworth at the Esri International User Conference Senior Executive Summit entitled "GIS - Uniting Our World": * * * Thanks so much for that kind introduction, Jack [Dangermon, Esri President], and for the invitation to speak here at the Senior Executive Summit this morning, on behalf of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Fo  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following remarks by Secretary Carlos Del Toro welcoming home IKE Carrier Strike Group from deployment: NORFOLK, Virginia, July 14 Good afternoon, everyone! And what a wonderful afternoon it is for so many family members and friends who are pierside with us today. It is my honor and privilege to welcome home the more than 7,000 Sailors and Marines assigned to the IKE Carrier Strike Group! As many of you know, following Hamas's brutal attack aga  more

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, July 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Jacob Glen Vance, age 34, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for possession of a machine gun and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, as a part of another investigation, West Virginia State Police searched Vance's home and storage uni  more

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, July 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: William Kevin Glover, 62, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 327 months in prison for fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking. A federal jury convicted Glover in March 2024 of seven counts of drug trafficking and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises. According to the evidence introduced at trial, Glover was working with ot  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Jason Todd Painter, 40, of Clendenin, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, from March 15, 2023 through June 24, 2023, Painter received 11 packages containing methamphetamine sent by a co-conspirator from New York to Painter's resid  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Dailen Isaiah Defoe, 21, of Princeton, was sentenced today to nine years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, on December 8, 2022, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at a Bluefield residence where Defo  more