WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 10, 2025 ARMY Entergy Louisiana LLC, Jefferson, Louisiana, was awarded a $129,233,000 firm-fixed-price contract for electricity services. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2034. 418th Contracting Support Brigade, Fort Johnson, Louisiana, is the contracting a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 11, 2025 NAVY Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Manassas, Virginia, was awarded a $114,162,885 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-20-C-6117 to exercise options for the Navy's procurement of hardware to support sound navigation and ranging systems. Work will be performed in Manassas, Virginia (65%); Clearwater, Florida (32%); Syracuse, Ne  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * ICE Washington, D.C. operation results in prison for Honduran sex offender who illegally reentered the United States ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Eliseo Garcia-Gordillo, 43, an illegally present Honduran national, received a two-year prison sentence Feb. 7 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria for illegally reentering the   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 11, 2025, entitled "Union Members in Virginia - 2024": * * * Union Members in Virginia -- 2024 In 2024, union members accounted for 5.2 percent of wage and salary workers in Virginia, compared with 4.3 percent in 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bove  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, Feb. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2025: The former Executive Director of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority (SRRA) was sentenced yesterday to time served plus three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $16,614 in restitution for bank fraud and embezzlement associated with her scheme to steal money intended for SRRA's Spearhead Trail System within the counties of  more

ABINGDON, Virginia, Feb. 12 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2025: * * * In all, 17 Defendants Stole $341,205 in Pandemic Relief Money * * * Six of the 17 defendants charged with conspiring to defraud the United States, commit program fraud, and commit mail fraud in connection to a scheme involving the filing of fraudulent claims for pandemic unemployment benefits, were sentenced recently in U.S. District Co  more