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News Tipoffs - Arizona Editors Newsletter for Thursday August 15, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Ariz. U.S. Attorney: Arizona Man Pleads Guilty for Making Online Threats Against Public Servants Including Federal Officials
PHOENIX, Arizona, Aug. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Michael Lee Tomasi, 37, of Rio Verde, Arizona, pleaded guilty yesterday to making threats against federal officials. From May 2021 through November 2023, while living in Colorado and Arizona, Tomasi used a social media platform to express a desire to incite violence and threaten a variety of individuals and groups, including a city district attorney, a s  more

Biden-Harris Administration Invests $775 Million from Investing in America Agenda for States to Plug Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: The Department of the Interior today announced the availability of $775 million for 21 states to clean up legacy pollution through President Biden's Investing in America agenda. These historic resources to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells and well sites of which over $1 billion has already been distributed are creating good-paying jobs, catalyzing economic growth, eliminating harmful methane leaks,   more

Justice Dept.: Arizona Man Pleads Guilty for Making Online Threats Against Public Servants Including Federal Officials
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2024: Michael Lee Tomasi, 37, of Rio Verde, Arizona, pleaded guilty yesterday to making threats against federal officials. From May 2021 through November 2023, while living in Colorado and Arizona, Tomasi used a social media platform to express a desire to incite violence and threaten a variety of individuals and groups, including a city district attorney, a state court judge, a member of Congr  more

NASA's Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim
PASADENA, California, Aug. 14 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will soon begin a monthslong ascent up the western rim of Jezero Crater that is likely to include some of the steepest and most challenging terrain the rover has encountered to date. Scheduled to start the week of Aug. 19, the climb will mark the kickoff of the mission's new science campaign its fifth since the rover landed in the crater on Feb. 18, 2021."Persever  more