WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: Falls Church, Va. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a draft environmental assessment evaluating potential impacts of removing excess vegetation from approximately 1,212 public acres near the District of Columbia, in Maryland and Virginia. The BLM is considering removal methods, in close collaboration with local, state, and federal partners, i  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news on Sept. 25, 2024: A new National Institutes of Health program will support studies to understand how ableism--discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities--contributes to health disparities. The effort, funded by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 25 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: On September 25, 2024, Senior United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Sarah Beth Clendaniel, a Catonsville, Maryland resident, to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for conspiring to damage or destroy electrical facilities in Maryland, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1366(a), and a concurrent sentence of 15 years fo  more