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News Tipoffs - Massachusetts Editors Newsletter for Sunday January 26, 2025 ( 7 items )  

Attorney General Bonta Leads Multistate Coalition to Defend NHTSA's Fuel-Economy Standards for Passenger Vehicles and Trucks
SACRAMENTO, California, Jan. 24 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Bonta Leads Multistate Coalition to Defend NHTSA's Fuel-Economy Standards for Passenger Vehicles and Trucks OAKLAND -- On behalf of California and leading a multistate coalition of 15 attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NH  more

ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL HELPS SECURE $7.5 BILLION FROM PURDUE PHARMA AND THE SACKLER FAMILY FOR FUELING OPIOID CRISIS
CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 23 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release: * * * ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL HELPS SECURE $7.5 BILLION FROM PURDUE PHARMA AND THE SACKLER FAMILY FOR FUELING OPIOID CRISIS If Approved by Court, Sackler Family to Pay $6.5 Billion, Purdue to Pay Nearly $900 Million Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul, along with a bipartisan coalition of states and other parties, today announced a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the  more

Contracts for Jan. 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Jan. 24, 2025 AIR FORCE Assured Information Security Inc., Rome, New York, was awarded a $300,000,000 ceiling, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract. This contract provides for performance of research, development, prototyping, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment, upgrades, enhancement, sustainment and training of innovative technologies  more

Contracts for Jan. 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Jan. 24, 2025 AIR FORCE Assured Information Security Inc., Rome, New York, was awarded a $300,000,000 ceiling, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract. This contract provides for performance of research, development, prototyping, integration, testing, demonstration, deployment, upgrades, enhancement, sustainment and training of innovative technologies  more

Healey-Driscoll Administration Files Multi-Year Chapter 90 Bond Bill to Invest $1.5 Billion in Local Road and Bridges
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 24 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Healey-Driscoll Administration Files Multi-Year Chapter 90 Bond Bill to Invest $1.5 Billion in Local Road and Bridges Boston -- Today, at the Massachusetts Municipal Association's Connect 351 conference, Governor Maura Healey announced that she is filing legislation to reform the Chapter 90 roadways program to substantially increase funding for municipal roads and bridges. The Govern  more

ICE ERO Boston arrests Haitian gang member with numerous convictions
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE ERO Boston arrests Haitian gang member with numerous convictions BOSTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended an illegally present 25-year-old Haitian national who has 17 criminal convictions in Massachusetts. ICE officers from ERO Boston arrested Wisteguens Jean Quely Charles, a member o  more

Massachusetts Residents Joshua and Lisa Urovitch Plead Guilty to Wrongful Voting in New Hampshire
CONCORD, New Hampshire, Jan. 24 -- New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella issued the following news release: * * * Massachusetts Residents Joshua and Lisa Urovitch Plead Guilty to Wrongful Voting in New Hampshire Concord, NH - Attorney General John Formella announces that Joshua and Lisa Urovitch (ages 56 and 54, respectively) of Ashland, Massachusetts, each pled guilty and were sentenced in Merrimack County Superior Court for wrongfully voting in New Hampshire despite being domiciled i  more