LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Sept. 4 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement Sept. 3, 2024: * * * Griffin: 'The Biden-Harris Title IX rule breaks the law Congress has written and violates the Constitution' * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing that he and 19 other state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in support of a Tennessee-led coalition's lawsuit  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: The Bureau of Reclamation today announced an $8 million investment to boost drought resiliency, efficiency and fish passage in the Lower Yellowstone River.Reclamation plans to use this investment to repair and upgrade the Intake Diversion Dam bypass channel constructed by Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Lower Yellowstone Project. The agencies cons  more

MAXWELL AFB, Alabama, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: The Colorado Wing accounted for the first- and third-place finishers in the Rocky Mountain Region Cadet Competition, with an Idaho Wing entry placing second. The Valkyrie Cadet Squadron team took first place, followed by the Nampa Composite Squadron entry and the Colorado Springs Cadet Squadron team. The Valkyrie Cadet Squadron team consisted of: * Cadet Lt. Col. Nicholas Gargano * Ca  more

GREAT FALLS, Montana, Sept. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2024: A Browning man admitted today to trafficking fentanyl pills on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation after officers attempting to arrest him found blue pills scattered around the bedroom floor, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. The defendant, Rayne Forrest Rivers Charette, 41, appeared for arraignment on and pleaded guilty to a superseding information ch  more

BILLINGS, Montana, Sept. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2024: A California man convicted by a federal jury of trafficking pounds of methamphetamine and thousands of fentanyl pills in the Butte and Helena communities as part of a large conspiracy was sentenced today to 30 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said. After a four-day trial in April, a jury f  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 4 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined 23 attorneys general in writing to Brown University Trustees to remind them that divesting from companies doing business in Israel would trigger anti-boycott laws in at least 37 states. The letter, led by the State of Arkansas, seeks to dissuade Brown from yielding to intense pressure from antisemitic extremists, including Students for Justice in Palestine. This  more