PHOENIX, Arizona, April 10 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * - Coalition Calls on Sheriffs to Use Emergency Powers to Release Pre-Trial Detainees * * * A broad coalition of criminal justice reform organizations and allies sent a letter to all county sheriffs urging them to use their emergency powers to release persons in their custody. The recent COVID-19 virus is spreading quickly in the United States and Arizona's population is experi  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 9 -- The Astrophysical Journal, a research journal from the American Astronomical Society that says it is devoted to recent developments, discoveries and theories in astronomy and astrophysics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 1, 2020 edition: * Black Hole Parameter Estimation from Its Shadow * Dust Destruction by Charging: A Possible Origin of Gray Extinction Curves of Active Galactic Nuclei * Magnetic Structure of an Erupting F  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 9 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: Conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday for failing to protect the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area from livestock grazing's damage. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson, says the Bureau of Land Management's 2019 plan for the conservation area sanctioned destructive levels of livestock grazing on protected lands, putting the area's remarkable ecosyste  more

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, April 9 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute issued the following news release: * * * - Genomic sequencing will track new coronavirus, provide critical data for global biomedical researchers, and give Arizona an edge in responding to the pandemic * * * The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute at Northern Arizona University, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 10 -- WorldatWork issued the following news release: Organizations are making sweeping changes to their benefits programs and workplace practices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results of the "WorldatWork COVID-19 Employer Response Survey" provide a window into how organizations are addressing benefits/pay planning, office/workforce planning, communications, and performance metrics. A total of 1,510 responses from WorldatWork's database of Total Rewards and HR   more