CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 27 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Raoul Urges Purchasers of Cheer Competitions, Camps, Apparel to Enroll for Notifications On Submitting Reimbursement Claims * * * Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced Illinois has joined an $82.5 million proposed antitrust settlement with Varsity Brands (Varsity). As a result, Illinois consumers who paid to participate in Varsity Brands' cheer competitions or   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news: Ever on the lookout for new ways to improve the fermentation of corn sugars into ethanol fuel, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have devised an approach for using genetically modified baker's yeast to prevent a top cause of costly ethanol plant shutdowns--namely, contamination by unwelcome bacteria. Scientists modified the yeast's genetic makeup with "codi  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 27 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Aug. 26, 2024: * * * Grant funding assists paraprofessional educators facing barriers to employment * * * Today, Governor JB Pritzker, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) awarded $1.5 million in grant funding to three Illinois universities through the Job Training and Economic Development (JTED) Teacher Apprentic  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The Health and Human Services Inspector General issued the following audit report (No. A-18-22-09009) on Aug. 15, 2024, entitled "Illinois State Medicaid Management Information Systems and Eligibility and Enrollment System Had Adequate Security Controls in Place, but Some Improvements Are Needed" filed under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here are excerpts: * * * Report in Brief Why OIG Did This Audit HHS OIG is conducted a series of audits of State M  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. Key Takeaways * With 280 days of data, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) collaboration has made a world-leading search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in areas no experiment has pro  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Louis District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District in coordination with the non-federal sponsor, Kaskaskia Regional Port District, are planning to implement a navigation improvement project at the Kaskaskia Regional Port District Terminal 2, and are seeking comments on the project. The project, which is authorized through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Continuing Authoriti  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: * * * Three representative ARM small field campaigns investigate aerosol formation, ship exhaust, and evolving albedo * * * Compared to their larger counterparts in atmospheric research, small field campaigns involve fewer people, smaller budgets, and tighter schedules. However, these time- and money-constrained efforts still take on big scientifi  more