BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following statement on July 19, 2024: * * * "As our country faces a culture of pervasive gun violence, Massachusetts is taking enormous strides to protect public health and safety. This nation-leading bill prohibits untraceable ghost guns, bans devices that convert guns into automatic weapons, creates provisions that help keep people in crisis from harming themselves or others, and strengthens requi  more

LANSING, Michigan, July 20 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined 20 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in Pharmaceutical Res. & Manufacturers of Am. v. Stolfi in support of laws that increase drug price transparency. The amicus brief filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals supports Oregon's defense of House Bill 4005, a law that requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report certain information   more

WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-1411) on July 19, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - June 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were higher in June in 8 states, lower in 1 state, and stable in 41 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-one states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 2 states had decreas  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 -- The Boston Planning and Development Agency issued the following news on July 19, 2024: * * * New affordable housing in Brighton, Fenway moves forward * * * The Planning Department this month recommended approval of the transfer of the IDP program to the Mayor's Office of Housing, and five new development projects to the BPDA Board, including the renovation of White Stadium. All were approved. The newly approved development projects represent approximately 45  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 -- The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: * * * 36 communities with nonprofit rural, call, or volunteer fire departments have been awarded a total of $88,346 in grant funding through the Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) Program * * * Rutland -- The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) today announced that 36 communities with nonprofit rural, call, or volunteer fire departments ha  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 20 -- The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: * * * New Speed Feedback Boards Urge Users to Slow Down on Shared-Use Path * * * The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) today announced the piloting of new safety measures on the Southwest Corridor Park (SWCP) shared-use path. The agencies are piloting the new measures, which inc  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an unlawfully present Brazilian fugitive wanted by authorities in his home country for charges of theft with a firearm and corruption of minors. Deportation officers from ERO Boston apprehended the 27-year-old Brazilian noncitizen July 15 near his residence in Milford. "This Brazilian fugitive attem  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention issued the following readout of a meeting of state offices of gun violence prevention: * * * On July 17, the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention convened over 30 state government officials from 16 states, including leaders from 12 state Offices of Gun Violence Prevention (OVPs). The convening brought together key violence prevention leaders to * Share strategies around gun violence prevention that have contribu  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: This Week at Interior Secretary Haaland this week welcomed Mexico's Foreign Secretary, Alicia Barcena. She's been tapped for a new position in the Cabinet of Mexico's President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum the new Secretary for Environment and Natural Resources. They were joined by Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. Esteban Moctezuma Barragan and former Interior Secretary and current U.S. Ambassador to Mexico  more