LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Griffin: 'Arkansas's law places our state among those aggressively combating antisemitic conduct' * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing that he and 23 other state attorneys general sent a letter urging Brown University to reject a proposal that the university divest from certain companies because they do business with Isra  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 26, 2024) - On Aug. 8, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 ordered three grocery distributors to stop the sale and distribution of certain Fabuloso household disinfectant products. EPA says that Estancia La Bodega Inc. of St. Louis, Missouri, Pan-Y-Mas of Kansas City, Kansas, and Promex Ltd. of Omaha, Nebraska, distributed cleaning products that were illega  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, Aug. 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska issued the following news release: United States Attorney Susan Lehr announced that Aaron Cardinale, age 48, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced August 22, 2024, in federal court in Omaha after having pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Chief United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Cardinale to 120 months' imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal s  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: The U.S. National Science Foundation has selected David B. Berkowitz as assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), starting September 9, 2024. Berkowitz will manage the NSF MPS team and oversee the investment portfolios for the divisions of Astronomical Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences, Materials Research, Physics and the Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI), wit  more