WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: By Jeanne Jackson DeVoe For high school and college students, an internship at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) can be a launching point for a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). But sometimes students from disadvantaged school districts, community colleges or smaller universities may not be familiar  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, Aug. 29 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release: Governor Glenn Youngkin and First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin continue to build on their efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis at CARITAS in Richmond and announced the statewide expansion of It Only Takes One. The It Only Takes One initiative expansion will target additional communities across the Commonwealth that are high substance use areas and have been impacted by the fentanyl epidemic. In these  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 29 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced that the application period is open for the 2025 New Jersey Attorney General's Honors Program, a two-year program that offers recent law school graduates and newly admitted lawyers the opportunity to start their legal careers in public service in the Department of Law and Public Safety. Through the support of Gove  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 29 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Consumer Affairs ("Division") announced today that 19 New Jersey retailers were issued Notices of Violation ("NOVs") and assessed civil penalties of $4,500 each for allegedly violating the state's consumer protection laws by offering and selling flavored vapor products that are banned for sale in New Jersey. T  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A Missouri man was arrested for an attempted data extortion campaign targeting his former employer, a U.S.-based industrial company with its headquarters located in Somerset County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Daniel Rhyne, 57, of Kansas City, Missouri, is charged by complaint with one count of extortion in relation  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A San Antonio, Texas, woman was arrested and charged with fraudulently selling over $18 million worth of counterfeit coupons used at various retail stores across the United States for the purchase of household items, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Janet Bernal, aka "Rocky," aka "Rocky G," aka "Rocky Gee," aka "RockyG-Kruella," of   more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Aug. 28 -- The National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities issued the following news release: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the higher education non-profit VentureWell have selected 11 winners and five honorable mentions in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, who are set to receive prizes totaling $160,000. The awards will be presented to the winning teams on Oct. 25, 2024, during the   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 -- The Office of the Mayor of New York issued the following transcript of in-person media availability on Aug. 27, 2024: * * * Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy, Communications: Good morning everybody, my name is Fabien Levy and I serve as deputy mayor for Communications for the City of New York. We always talk about reaching people where they are, so as a part of that effort our administration recognizes the crucial role of multilingual communications in effectively serving New York   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Results could aid understanding of how black holes produce vast intergalactic jets * * * Whether between galaxies or within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks, the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma regularly encounters powerful magnetic fields, changing shape and sloshing in space. Now, a new measurement technique using p  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