HURLBURT FIELD, Florida, July 27 -- The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command issued the following news: Air Commandos throughout Air Force Special Operations Command bid farewell to Mr. Donald Plater, AFSOC executive director, July 26 here, as he prepares to retire. Plater, a member of the Senior Executive Service, served more than five years with the command and possesses a combined 51 years of federal service. Plater began his career in the U.S. Army upon graduation from the University   more

HURLBURT FIELD, Florida, July 27 -- The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command issued the following news: Air Commandos throughout Air Force Special Operations Command bid farewell to Mr. Donald Plater, AFSOC executive director, July 26 here, as he prepares to retire. Plater, a member of the Senior Executive Service, served more than five years with the command and possesses a combined 51 years of federal service. Plater began his career in the U.S. Army upon graduation from the University  more

SACRAMENTO, California, July 27 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on July 26, 2024: OAKLAND -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a nationwide agreement in principle on monetary terms that will require opioid manufacturer Indivior to pay up to $86 million nationally to address its role in the opioid epidemic. The attorneys general allege that Indivior failed to properly monitor and report suspicious opioid orders, causing its buprenorp  more

ALBANY, New York, July 27 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on July 26, 2024: NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an $86 million multistate settlement in principle with opioid manufacturer Indivior for its role in driving the spread of deadly opioid addictions across New York and the country. Indivior produced buprenorphine-based products to treat opioid use disorder, which can feed opioid addictions when abused and cause  more

BOISE, Idaho, July 27 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on July 26, 2024: Attorney General Raul Labrador today announced an $86 million multistate settlement in principle with opioid manufacturer Indivior for its role in driving the spread of deadly opioid addictions across Idaho and the country. Indivior produced buprenorphine-based products to treat opioid use disorder. However, as Attorney General Labrador and a multistate coalition of attorneys gen  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, July 27 -- Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares issued the following news release on July 26, 2024: Attorney General Miyares today announced an $86 million multistate settlement in principle with opioid manufacturer Indivior for its role in driving the spread of deadly opioid addictions across Virginia and the country. Indivior produced buprenorphine-based products to treat opioid use disorder. However, as Attorney General Miyares and a multistate coalition of attorney  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 27 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on July 26, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced an $86 million multistate settlement in principle with opioid manufacturer Indivior for its role in driving the spread of deadly opioid addictions across Illinois and the country. Indivior produced buprenorphine-based products to treat opioid use disorder. However, as Raoul and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general allege, I  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: Projects Funded by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act Strengthen American Farms and Rural Small Businesses Brunswick, Maine, July 26, 2024 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced from the Brunswick Farmers Market today that USDA is partnering with farmers and small businesses to expand access to clean energy and lower energy bills through the Rural Energy for Americ  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Carderock's interns from Montgomery County Public Schools' 2024 Summer RISE (Reimagining an Innovative Student Experience) Program were celebrated for their hard work at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland, July 25, 2024. The closing ceremony opened with a career fair for participating students of the program to facilita  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Elliott was named by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to its ASME 2024 Watchlist of 25 early career professionals. Now working as a group leader for the System Automation and Monitoring Research group, Elliott's achievements with ORNL have resulted in a number of patents and her work has appeared in several major journals and publications, including Scien  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: To achieve that level of accuracy, the team trained a novel machine-learning interatomic model by using an extensive cache of quantum mechanical data on various states of carbon, including BC8. "We basically fingerprinted every atomic environment around each atom in a billion-atom system that could result during the system's evolution at extreme pressures and temper  more

WASHINGTON, July 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following weekly report entitled "Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims" for week ending July 20, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending July 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 235,000, a decrease of 10,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 243,000 to 245,000. The 4-week moving average was 235,50  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced that the United States has filed a complaint against Murphy Medical Center, Inc. doing business as Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital and Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority doing business as Erlanger Health System and Erlanger Medical Center (collectively, Erlanger) in the U.S. District Court for the   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, July 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release: The last of fourteen members of the Traveling Vice Lords/Junk Yard Dogs (TVL/JYD) street gang, convicted of crimes under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, has been sentenced in federal court. Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today. According to information pres  more