BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) is seeking public feedback to inform drafting consumer protection regulations for assisted living residences in Massachusetts. Members of the public can provide comments to the AGO through an online form, available here (https://massgov.formstack.com/forms/community_feedback_on_ago_assisted_living_residences).   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Today, the Department of Defense's Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation released its Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Spending by State report to help states and communities better understand how Defense procurement, personnel, and grant spending impact their economies. The report's graphs, maps, and tables present a range of findings, such as total spending figures, categories of contracted goods and services,   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following statement on Oct. 16, 2024, by Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter on the final trade regulation rule concerning recurring subscriptions and other negative option programs (File No. P064202): * * * As is common in rulemaking proceedings, this Final Rule that the Commission promulgates is somewhat different from what it originally proposed--clarified, narrowed, and ultimately improved by the process of grappling with the   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey issued the following abstract of an article on July 9, 2024, entitled "Monitoring Questing Winter Tick Abundance On Traditional Moose Hunting Lands". The article was written by Juliana Berube, Alexej P. K. Siren, Benjamin Simpson, Kelly B. Klingler and Tammy L. Wilson. * * * An important symbolic and subsistence animal for many Native American Tribes, the moose (Alces alces; mos in Algonquin, Penobscot langua  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Oct. 15, 2024: * * * Massachusetts Life Science Center Incentives expected to create 1,155 new life sciences jobs; Since MLSC's inception, Tax Incentive Program has helped create over 18,000 jobs * * * The Healey-Driscoll Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $21.4 million in tax incentive awards to 19 life sciences companies. The awards, provided th  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 17 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: * * * Citations Include Over $218,300 in Restitution and Penalties * * * The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) today announced that it has issued citations against a New Bedford-based menswear company, Joseph Abboud Manufacturing Corp., the company's President John Tighe, and Vice President Joe Bahena, for violating various state employment laws  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire issued the following news release: After a 2-week trial, a Windham man was convicted by a federal petit jury, for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with his ownership of an information technology (IT) company that contracted with the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (United Way) while being employed by United Way, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announces. I  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Oct. 16, 2024: Raytheon Company (Raytheon), a subsidiary of Arlington, Virginia-based defense contractor RTX (formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation), entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the Department of Justice in connection with a criminal information unsealed today in the Eastern District of New York charging Ra  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission's Accounting and Auditing Enforcement issued the following order (No. 4534) on Oct. 16, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * In the Matter of RTX CORPORATION Respondent. ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER I. The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate that cease-and-desist pr  more