BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) today announced that it has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Harp Media B.V. and Hove Media, collectively known as Bovada, for operating a sports betting and gambling website without a license in Massachusetts. According to the letter, Bovada offers online casino games and sports wagering without any license   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: * * * An additional $506,250 in Alternative Education Initiative funding awarded to support youth programs * * * Today, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Office of Workforce Development (OWD) announced the allocation of $2.2 million to 40 community-based programs that will provide employment, education, and economic services and support more than 3,000 low-to-moderate-income Boston residents. This in  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: Today, Mayor Michelle Wu announced the installation of green roofs on 30 bus shelters along the MBTA's #28 Bus route. Built in collaboration with community partners, these new roofs feature drought-resistant plantings that will help provide shade, improve air quality, increase stormwater retention, and add new green space along the bus route. The City selected bus shelters along this corridor as  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (TNS) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: * * * Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2023, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The percent change ranged from 8.1 percent in Florida to 4.7 percent in Iowa. Nationally, current-dollar PCE increased 6.4 percent in 2023 after increasing 9.8 percen  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: The potential for remote operation and autonomous control, which could improve operational efficiency and reduce risk, is a major selling point for some advanced nuclear technologies. Take microreactors, for example. These small nuclear reactors are designed to be able to operate independently from the electric grid with limited local operating assi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey New England Water Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-5080) on Sept. 27, 2024, entitled "Estimating Groundwater Level Records Using MOVE.1 and Computing Monthly Percentiles from Estimated Groundwater Records in Massachusetts". The report was written by Elizabeth A. Ahearn and Dee-Ann E. Crozier. * * * The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey New England Water Science Center issued the following report (No. 2024-5081) on Sept. 30, 2024, entitled "Evaluation of the Lakes and Impoundments Drought Index for the Massachusetts Drought Management Plan". The report was written by Travis L. Smith. * * * The condition of surface water storage in lakes and impoundments is used as an index of drought in the Massachusetts drought management plan. The U.S. Geol  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: 30 school districts in partnership with community-based preschool programs receive funding The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that 30 school districts in partnership with community-based preschool programs are receiving $20.3 million in Commonwealth Preschool Partnership Initiative (CPPI) grants to support their continued efforts to expand access to high-quali  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that Massachusetts is one of 14 states awarded federal grant funding through the Affordable Care Act intended to improve women's health coverage and access to critical health benefits. The Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) will receive $627,854 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, thr  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, defended a federal effort to expand health insurance access to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Established in 2012, DACA enables certain young people, commonly referred to as Dreamers, who came to the United States as children and have lived in America continuously since 2007, to avoid immed  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * Agreement Requires Mortgage Servicing Company to Permanently Cease Collections on All Mortgage Loans in Massachusetts, Effectively Relieving Over $10M in Debt for Consumers * * * Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has reached a precedent-setting settlement with mortgage servicer Franklin Credit Management Corporation (Franklin Credit). The settlement resolves allegat  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: The MBTA today announced that Green Line service resumed between North Station and Union Square and between North Station and Medford/Tufts at 10:30 AM following a derailment that occurred on Tuesday, October 1, around 5 PM near Lechmere. "We sincerely apologize for this incident and thank the public for their patience while we worked to resume service. Our thoughts contin  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife Rescue for Nibi the beaver to remain at the rehabilitation facility and serve as an educational animal. "Nibi has captured the hearts of many of our residents, mine included," said Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey. "We're excited to share that we have issued a permit for Nibi to remain in Newhou  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- The Massachusetts Department of Revenue issued the following news release on Oct. 3, 2024: * * * Monthly collections up $331 million or 7.9% vs. September 2023 actual; $29 million below benchmark * * * Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) Commissioner Geoffrey Snyder today announced that preliminary revenue collections for September totaled $4.518 billion, $331 million or 7.9% more than actual collections in September 2023, but $29 million or 0.6% below   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: The MBTA today announced that MBTA Transit Police Chief Kenneth Green has been named one of the inaugural Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society Distinguished Fellows by the Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society and Northeastern University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. With nearly 40 years in law enforcement, Chief Green began his career in 1983 as a pa  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: This year, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center hosted 18 students from 12 states and 18 different colleges and universities. Project topic areas ranged from climate change, offshore wind, and microplastics, to fish and fisheries, aquaculture, and protected species. Some projects involved technologies and techniques such as passive acoustics, photography, biodeposition, mass spectrometry, and   more

CAMP SMITH, Hawaii, Oct. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: MUNDA, Solomon Islands U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb squad members from other nations to confront and defeat World War II era unexploded ordnance across the Solomon Islands. American Soldiers from the 303rd Ordnance Battalion (EOD) and U.S. Marines from the Marine Rotational Force Darwin, Australia, serv  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center issued the following news on Oct. 3, 2024: On September 18, 2024, the U.S. DOT Project Delivery Center of Excellence kicked off the first of the three-part thought leadership series: Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (https://www.volpe.dot.gov/project-delivery-center-excellence/making-good-potential-bipartisan-infrastructure-law). Remar  more