ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 11 -- Bernalillo County issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2024: During its meeting Tuesday night, the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners approved a motion to accept and budget a $15 million RAISE (Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the I-40 TradePort Corridor Project. This transformational project is aimed at enhancing the region's clean energy and logistics infra  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, West Region - September 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.2 percent over the past month, up 2.1 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the West Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.2 percent in September, the U.S. Bur  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: OTAY MESA, Calif., CBP officers assigned to the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility kicked off October by discovering more than $3.2 million in methamphetamine concealed within the floor frame of a tractor-trailer in a single enforcement action. The incident occurred on Thursday, October 3, 2024, when CBP officers encountered a 40-year old male driving an empty commercia  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2024: At its open meeting today, the Federal Election Commission approved two advisory opinions but was unable to approve a third by the required four votes. Prior to the meeting, the Commission approved certification of a payment from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Advisory Opinion 2024-09 (https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2024-09/) (U.S. Representative Nanette Barrag  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Oct. 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Benito Curiel, 25, from Phoenix, Arizona, who had recently resided in South Sioux City, Nebraska, was sentenced on October 8, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa, to nearly nine years' imprisonment. Curiel pled guilty on March 20, 2024, to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. Evidence at the plea and sentencing hearings showed that on May 17, 202  more

PASADENA, California, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. * * * Using data from an instrument designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satell  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Oct. 11 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on Oct. 9, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers announced today that a coalition of 50 Attorneys General has reached a settlement with Marriott International, Inc. as the result of an investigation into a large multi-year data breach of one of its guest reservation databases. The Federal Trade Commission, which has been coordinating closely with the states throughout this investigation, has reached   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2024: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today announced Robert Lewis as Deputy Executive Director for Operations, in the areas of materials, waste, research, state, tribal, compliance, administration, and human capital programs, and Craig Erlanger as Director of the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. Both are effective Oct. 20, 2024. Lewis has 32 years of experience at the NRC,  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Donovan Potter, 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs HILL AIR FORCE BASE - Hill AFB information technology professionals developed a standardized platform to track safety inspections and employee training that has proven to be successful over the past 20 years. The Hazardous Communication / Job Order Training Outline is a government-owned, contractor-operated application that auto  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, Oct. 11 (TNSres) -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news on Oct. 9, 2024: * * * NICHD-funded study informs research on health interventions involving companion animals * * * When playing with the family dog, children had higher levels of oxytocin compared to when they played alone with toys, according to a study funded by NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Instit  more

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command issued the following news: Michele Dominguez, a self-professed "Valley Girl," grew up in Southern California's San Fernando Valley region. Fluent in Valley Speak, or Valspeak, she was a regular at the famous Sherman Oaks Galleria--widely recognized as the Valley Girl's official stomping ground. Dominguez came of age during the early 1980s, a time marked by the success of Frank Zappa's iconic hit "Valley Girl  more