JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Air Force Joint Base Andrews (11th Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Gianluca Ciccopiedi, 316th Wing Public Affairs U.S. Air Force Col. Stacy G. Friesen assumed command of the 316th Medical Group during a ceremony, Aug. 20. Friesen previously served as the deputy command surgeon for Air Force Central Command at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. Her career also includes leadership positions in both operational and staff as  more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Quavion Maurice Pickett, a/k/a "Q," a 30-year-old resident of Rock Hill, South Carolina has been sentenced to 324 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, and a forfeiture of over $72,000, for trafficking fentanyl pills in the Fayetteville area which he manufactured in a makeshift lab in a laundry room. Pickett pled gu  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In June 2024, quits rates (the number of quits during the entire month as a percentage of total employment) were above 3.0 percent in 3 states: Montana (3.2 percent) and South Carolina and Wyoming (3.1 percent each). There were 73,000 quits in South Carolina, 17,000 quits in Montana, and 9,000 quits in Wyoming. Nationally, there were 3,282,000 quit  more

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina issued the following news release: Esteban Colon Pacheco, 27, of Ponce, Puerto Rico, was sentenced to more than 23 years in federal prison after he pled guilty to possessing a machine gun in furtherance of drug trafficking, distributing methamphetamine, and conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. Evidence presented to the Court showed that in 2022 and 2023, Pacheco was a coc  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A South Carolina man was arrested today for assaulting a law enforcement officer and other charges related to his alleged conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His alleged actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential el  more