MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Jan. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama issued the following news release on Jan. 28, 2025: The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an indictment charging former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, with assaulting a handcuffed and compliant inmate at Crenshaw County Jail. Porter was also charged with falsifying a report and making false statements t  more

MOBILE, Alabama, Jan. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama issued the following news release: A Mobile man was sentenced to 180 months in prison for trafficking drugs and possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes while being a federal fugitive. According to court documents, Tesean R. James, 30, was convicted of a bulk marijuana trafficking conspiracy in federal court in 2019. After his release from federal prison in September 2021, Jame  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2025: New Orleans, LA - Crimestoppers Greater New Orleans (GNO) and the U.S. Marshals Service New Orleans Task Force sponsored their annual Operation Boo Dat 2024 from Oct. 22, 2024, to Jan. 18, 2025. The operation was a partnership between New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, Kenner Police Department, St. Berna  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Job openings rates increased in 2 states in November 2024 January 28, 2025 Job openings rates increased in 2 states, decreased in 2 states, and were little changed in 46 states and the District of Columbia in November 2024. The national job openings rate (4.8 percent) was little changed over the month. The increases in job openings rates occurred   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 28, 2025: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, unsealed an indictment yesterday charging former Crenshaw County Jail Administrator Christian Alexander Porter, 33, with assaulting a handcuffed and compliant inmate at Crenshaw County Jail. Porter was also charged with falsifying a report and making false statements to state and federal investigators. The indictment alleges that, on or about Oc  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date A massive hotspot -- larger the Earth's Lake Superior -- can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA's Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft's flyby of the Jovian moon. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in   more

PASADENA, California, Jan. 28 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date Scientists with NASA's Juno mission have discovered a volcanic hot spot in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter's moon Io. The hot spot is not only larger than Earth's Lake Superior, but it also belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world's power plants. The discovery of this massive feature comes co  more