RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 28 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * 2025 Ozone Season Begins Tomorrow March 1 marks the beginning of the 2025 ozone season as state and local environmental agencies renew their daily air quality forecasts for ozone across North Carolina. Through Oct. 31, the daily air quality forecasts from the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) will include ozone in addition to fine particle matter (PM   more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 28 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * DEQ Accepting Public Comments on Draft Water and Wastewater Funding Intended Use Plans # RALEIGH - The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality's Division of Water Infrastructure is accepting comments until March 14, 2025 on updates to several Intended Use Plans (IUPs) and Project Priority Lists, and until March 31, 2025, for new draft Intended Use  more

ELON, North Carolina, March 1 -- Elon University issued the following news release: * * * Elon University's nursing program achieves accreditation The National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation recognized School of Health Sciences leaders for a "commitment to providing quality nursing education" by meeting five standards that guide the accreditation process. Elon University's nursing program has been awarded initial accreditation by an organization renowned   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 28 [Category: BizReal Estate] -- Jones Lang LaSalle, a real estate and investment management company, posted the following news release: * * * JLL advises on $467M sale-leaseback portfolio of SouthState Corporation retail bank branches CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2025 - JLL Capital Markets announced today that it has arranged the $467 million sale and leaseback of 165 retail bank branches across six southeastern states (the "Portfolio"), occupied by the SouthState Bank, N.A. ("S  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Feb. 28 -- The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued the following news release: * * * NCDEQ Division of Water Resources to hold public hearing on proposed changes to N.C. water quality standards The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Division of Water Resources (DWR) will hold a public hearing on April 22 to hear public comment on proposed changes to North Carolina's surface water quality standards, including the addition of standa  more

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 28 -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued the following news release: * * * North Carolina Man to Stand Trial for 2012 Cold-Case Sexual Assault at Kalamazoo Fraternity House LANSING - Last week, Dustin Thomas, 35, of Cameron, North Carolina, was bound over to stand trial in the 9th Circuit Court on one count of First-Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct for an alleged 2012 sexual assault in Kalamazoo County, announced Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. The preli  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 1 -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Study Finds Support for Solar Energy Has Become Politically Polarized A new analysis of social media posts finds that public support for solar energy remains high, though that support declined significantly from 2016 to 2022. The study also found that solar power has become an increasingly polarized issue, with the shift in support being driven largely by opposition to solar power amon  more

CARY, North Carolina, Feb. 27 -- SAS Institute, a business analytics software and services provider, issued the following news release: * * * Survey: 78% of insurance execs say closing $1.8 trillion protection gap is an ethical obligation More than 500 insurance leaders weigh in on risks, opportunities and trends to watch through 2040 The global protection gap - the difference between insured and uninsured losses across life, health, natural catastrophe and crop insurance - was last estimate  more

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 1 -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: * * * Professor Gives Female Athletes a Leg Up with Patented Device After years of hard work, Dr. Sandra Shultz, director of UNC Greensboro's Center for Women's Health and Wellness in the School of Health and Human Sciences, will earn a patent from the U.S. government for a device she and her colleagues developed. The device, a GMetric3D Knee Joint Laxity Testing Apparatus, he  more