PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 13, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria - October 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.326 per gallon in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria area in October 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that area   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson - October 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.2 percent over the past 2 months, up 3.4 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increase  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington - October 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.2 percent over the past 2 months, up 3.4 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, South Region - October 2024": * * * Area prices rose 0.3 percent in October; up 2.5 percent over the past year * * * The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the South rose 0.3 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The monthly i  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences issued the following news: The term "rare disease" can be a misnomer. While there are more than 10,000 diseases that are individually rare, they collectively affect millions of people worldwide. The burden for people with a rare disease is significant, as I outlined in my NIH Director's Blog post. Most rare diseases start in childhoo  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (TNSfact) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Nov. 13, 2024: * * * White House Hosts "Classroom to Career" Summit, Celebrates Successful Efforts to Expand High-Quality Career Pathways and Workforce Development Programs in Every Community Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will welcome approximately 200 education and workforce leaders to the White House for the Biden-Harris Administration's "Classroom to Career" Summit. The Administration  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Nov. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training framework called AxoNN, which leverages GPUs to rapidly train large language models, or LLMs. Winners of the Gordon Bell Prize will be announced at the Inter  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Nov. 12, 2024: Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) testified before the House Committee on Rules in support of H.R. 7409, the Harnessing Energy at Thermal Sources Act, and H.R. 8446, the Critical Mineral Consistency Act. Below are Westerman's full remarks, as prepared. Thank you, Chairman Burgess, for the opp  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today after President-elect Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz (FL-01) as U.S. Attorney General:"Donald Trump's nomination of Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as Attorney General is an extreme perversion of justice. The chief law enforcement officer of the United States ought to have experience enforci  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: * * * Defendant Did Not Report More than $2.2M in Cash * * * A Maryland man who owns a retail store pleaded guilty today to evading his income taxes by not reporting cash taken from his business. According to court documents and statements made in court, for over 20 years, William M. Bundy of District Heights owned and operated Bab's Inc., a store located in District Heights, that only   more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- The Maryland Department of Health issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: The Maryland Department of Health today announced the launch of a new tool to help navigate the public health impacts of cannabis use: the Maryland Cannabis Public Health Data Dashboard. The dashboard provides a user-friendly and easy-to-understand visualization of cannabis trends before and after the legalization of adult-use cannabis in the state. "Monitoring the public healt  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: * * * Charged with Unfair, Deceptive, and Abusive Trade Practices and Not Being Licensed as a Third-Party Debt Collector * * * Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced today that the Consumer Protection Division has filed charges (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/111324_cpd_SOC_Heather_Hill.pdf) against Heather Hill Property Company LLC; He  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- Gov. Wes Moore, D-Maryland, issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Governor Wes Moore today announced the appointment of Francesca Ioffreda as chief innovation officer for the State of Maryland. Ioffreda will lead the first-ever Bloomberg Philanthropies-supported state-level Innovation Team. "Our administration has been, and always will be, data-driven and heart-led. Francesca Ioffreda's experience developing collaborative, data-driven solutions to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued the following information for a business meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 20, 2024, at 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building: AGENDA Nominations 1. Nomination of the Honorable Val Butler Demings to be a Governor, United States Postal Service; 2. Nomination of the Honorable William Zollars to be a Governor, United States Postal Service; 3. Nomination of the Honorable Gordon Hartogensis to be a Governor, Un  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Today at the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29), the Subnational Climate Action Leaders' Exchange (SCALE) partnership announced the launch of the Zero Emissions and Resilient Buildings (ZERB) Accelerator, a new initiative to rapidly reduce operational and embodied greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen climate resilience in the buildings sector through enhanced multilevel collaboration   more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corp., issued the following news release: * * * Exploring collaborative approaches to fueling innovation and economic growth * * * TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, announces the panel "Strategies to Drive Regional Technology-Based Entrepreneurship and Economic Development" to take place at the upcoming 2024 Entrepreneur Expo at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel on December 4, 2024.  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, Nov. 14 -- TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corp., issued the following news release: * * * Innovative company working to find a solution for those with foot drop * * * TEDCO, Maryland's economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $200,000 Seed Funds investment in NextStep Robotics. TEDCO's Seed Funds aim to reach prospective businesses showing potential of being venture fundable or other forms of corporate venture, such as follow-on funding. "  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Paul Alejandro Felix, 25, of Glendale, California, was sentenced yesterday to 164 months in prison for participating in a wide-spread narcotics trafficking conspiracy that distributed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills purchased in Southern California to destinations throughout the United States, including the District of Columb  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Postal Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced the retirement of Joseph "Joe" Corbett, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, effective December 31, 2024. During a distinguished career with the Postal Service since 2009, Corbett made significant contributions to the organization, navigating complex financial landscapes and implementing key strategies that have shaped its operations. Corbett has served as  more