WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity released the following testimony by Melissa Cohen, executive director of outreach at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Benefits Administration, from a Sept. 10, 2024, hearing entitled "Mission Transition: Evaluating Mental Health Support Programs for Separating Servicemembers": * * * Chairman Van Orden, Ranking Member Levin, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee, I appreciate the oppor  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Oct. 3 -- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University issued the following news: By Lydian Bernhardt When Walter Hood was a student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Charles Fountain, Ph.D., commanded him to take a semester off and take a co-op job in Asheville. Hood resisted -- the co-op would delay his college graduation -- but not for long. Fountain, who founded N.C. A&T's landscape architecture program, was a dominati  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Oct. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: A Crip Gang member from Winston Salem was sentenced today to 480 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine in the Raleigh area. On April 25, 2024, Marquis Peterson, age 30, was convicted by a federal jury of three charges including conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl, possession with the intent to d  more