NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a father and son who pleaded guilty to offenses stemming from the fraudulent sale of titanium to a Connecticut defense subcontractor were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill sentenced JOHN J. PALIE, JR., 64, of Tiverton, Rhode  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following news release: New grants to digitize historical newspapers from Rhode Island, Wyoming, and the Virgin Islands bring the NEH-LOC National Digital Newspaper Program closer to goal of comprehensive U.S. coverage. Chronicling America, the free, searchable database of historical American newspapers, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and housed and maintained online at the Library of Congres  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following news release: * * * - NIH-funded project shows graphene could provide alternative to chemicals in insect repellant and protective clothing. * * * An innovative graphene-based film helps shield people from disease-carrying mosquitos, according to a new study funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Heal  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Aug. 28 -- The Naval War College issued the following news: Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper spoke to students and faculty of the U.S. Naval War College on Aug. 27, his first address at a military academic institution since taking office July 23. Esper told his audience that the Department of Defense is focused on the competition posed by China and Russia, after 18 years of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Many of you spent most of your career fighting irregular war  more