FALLS CHURCH, Virginia, July 19 -- Defense Health Agency issued the following news: Do you have TRICARE For Life? If so, you may know that Medicare and TRICARE For Life work together to minimize your out-of-pocket expenses. After Medicare processes your claim, it forwards the claim to TRICARE For Life for processing. This eliminates the need for you to file a claim. But if you also have other health insurance, also known as "OHI," you may have to submit a claim in order to receive reimbursement  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Enforcement and Removal Operations D.C. removed a 42-year-old Mexican fugitive wanted by authorities in his home country for rape. Deportation officers removed Alejandro Piedras-Padilla from the United States to Mexico July 17. "Alejandro Piedras-Padilla attempted to flee justice in Mexico by hiding out in Virginia," said ERO D.C. Field Office Director Liana   more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, July 19 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * Karthik Suresh earns the 2023 JSA Thesis Prize for his analysis of the neutral b1 meson at GlueX * * * A doctoral dissertation on meson decay in the ongoing GlueX Collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has just earned the prestigious 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize. Award-win  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 19 -- The National Credit Union Administration issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: * * * Board Action Bulletin Maintains 18-percent Loan Interest Rate Ceiling for Federal Credit Unions * * * The National Credit Union Administration Board held its fifth open meeting of 2024 and approved a proposed rule on incentive-based compensation and a revised proposed rule on succession planning. The NCUA Board also approved maintaining the current interest rat  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 19 -- The National Credit Union Administration posted the following joint news release on July 18, 2024, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve System: Five federal regulatory agencies today issued final guidance addressing reconsiderations of value (ROVs) for residential real estate transactions. The guidance advises on policies and procedures  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class (F1c) Fred H. Boyer, killed during World War II, was accounted for on June 11, 2024. On Dec. 7, 1941, Boyer was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS West Virginia sustaine  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 3rd Class (F3c) Royle B. Luker, killed during World War II, was accounted for on May 29, 2024. On Dec. 7, 1941, Luker was assigned to the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS West Virginia sustaine  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: A Sterling woman was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine and straw purchasing firearms and ammunition for convicted felons. From at least June 2022 through August 2023, Kaitlyn Marie Hammond, 26, her husband Carrington Hammond, 30, and co-conspirator Mohamed Amine Haddou, 29, received frequent and la  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: Willie Charles Sanders, also known as "Disco," 51, of Charleston, was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, Sanders admitted that he sold approximately 28 grams of methamphetamine t  more

WHEELING, West Virginia, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Daniel R. Grossi, 70, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced to 77 months in prison for fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking. According to court documents and statements made in court, Grossi was selling fentanyl and methamphetamine in Marshall County. The investigation revealed that Grossi obtained large amounts of cocaine, fentanyl, heroi  more