WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: BOSTON Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis traveled to Massachusetts this week to highlight investments from President Biden's Investing in America agenda and the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). Together, these historic investments are enabling the Interior Department to deploy unprecedented funding to address overdue maintenance and repairs and meet critical ecosystem resili  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Charles Stark Draper Laboratories Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, is awarded a $111,015,771 fixed-price-incentive-fee and cost-plus-incentive-fee modification (P00003) under contract N0003023C6008 to exercise optional line items for design analysis, testing, procurement, and manufacturing of Interferometric fiber optic gyros repairs and associated material. This modification also benefits a foreign mi  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration issued the following warning letter to Massachusetts Institute of Technology: * * * To: Dr. Leigh M. Firn MD, Chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building E25, Room 143B, Cambridge, MA 02139-4301, United States Dear Dr. Firn: This Warning Letter informs you of objectionable conditions observed during a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Remote Regulat  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: A former Weymouth Police officer was sentenced today for assaulting a man in custody by punching the victim multiple times without legal justification. Justin Chappell, 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to two years' supervised release, with the first six months to be served in home confinement. Chappell was a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on July 17, 2024: Member of a nationwide drug trafficking ring was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston. Throughout the investigation over 160 pounds of pure methamphetamine, as well as an AK-47, a Glock with no serial number, two loaded Smith & Wesson handguns and over 4,200 rounds of ammunition were seized. An illegal marijuana grow operation with hun  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on July 17, 2024: An Oxford man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed controlled substances in and around the Quincy and Weymouth areas. Chaasad Cyprien, 24, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge William G. Young to two years in prison and three years of supervised re  more