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

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Roy Cooper, D-North Carolina, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: * * * Health care providers weighed in on the impacts of SB20 and the danger in further restricting abortion access * * * Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion highlighting the current reproductive care landscape in North Carolina and the harmful impacts of Senate Bill 20, the abortion ban passed last year by North Carolina Republicans. The group also  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Aug. 29 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2024: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office joined 16 other states in filing suit against the Biden-Harris Administration's "parole in place" (PIP) rule that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to circumvent the law and obtain permanent residency. Last night, the Court ruled against the unlawful program, putting it on pause while li  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

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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: "Save the life of a fellow American, whether in uniform or not!" This simple yet powerful message was the driving force as more than 4,000 soldiers volunteered and registered into the Department of Defense's bone marrow donor program Salute to Life during a two-week bone marrow drive held across multiple locations and units located at Fort Bliss, Texas, from Aug. 5-16, 2024. This effort was the latest success s  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 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Fifty-one samples will contribute data to the Molecular Observation Network * * * By Genoa Blankenship The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) recently selected six researchers to participate in fall soil sampling for the Molecular Observation Network (MONet). This fall, the awarded principal investigators and research team  more

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina, Aug. 29 -- The city of Spartanburg issued the following news on Aug. 27, 2024: Spartanburg City Council unanimously approved a development agreement at their meeting on Monday that paves the way for a new 95-unit townhome development near the city's northern boundary. Located along Florida Ave., near Spartanburg Medical Center, the $23 million development will have ten of its units set aside for tenants at or below 80 percent of area median income as part of the de  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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service is investing $15 million to connect underserved and small-acreage forest landowners with emerging climate markets. This funding is thanks to forest landowner support provisions in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act. In total, nine proposals across 14 states were selected to receive funding. The announcement comes in addition to  more