LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 8 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statements on May 7, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today issued the following statements after filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on behalf of four other state attorneys general alongside an Arkansas high school athlete against the U.S. Department of Education over its new rule interpreting Title IX: "The ove  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, May 8 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $31.7 million contract to LS Marine, Inc., of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, to conduct mechanical dredging operations in support of channel maintenance within the Mississippi River, April 17. This work will facilitate long-term channel maintenance dredging and placement of dredged material, or river sand, for the Up  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 8 -- Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Attorney General Ashley Moody is demanding the U.S. Congress permanently defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency after a recent investigation revealed the agency continues to be tied to terrorism. The organization is linked to Hamas and incites hatred by spreading antisemitism. Attorney General Moody, with 23 other attorneys general, today sent a letter to Congress de  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today joined 20 other states in suing Biden for abolishing longstanding Title IX protections for women. Biden's new gender ideology mandate tears down more than 50 years of landmark protections for girls in preschool through college who will now be forced to share private facilities such as restrooms, locker rooms, and showers with males. The rule  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today co-led a 24-state coalition in a letter to Congressional leadership, urging Congress to permanently cut all funding to the terrorist-embedded United Nations Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"). On October 7, 2023, dozens of UNRWA staff participated in the largest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust. UNRWA's ties to terrorism are  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following news on May 7, 2024: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is offering increased cost-share incentives for cover crop planting through the state's Water Quality Initiative (WQI). The popular annual cost-share program, which is available to eligible first-time users as well as returning participants, is now open for Iowa farmers to  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed HF 2618, a bill that requires evidence-based reading instruction and tailored interventions for students who aren't proficient, into law. "This legislation is an extension of our ongoing effort to make literacy a priority in every Iowa classroom and for every Iowa student. Iowa's reading scores have held steady over the last several years, in part because we k  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 8 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Today, U.S. News and World Report ranked Iowa the #6 Best State overall, #3 state for Opportunity, #7 state for Long-Term Fiscal Stability, #9 state for Health Care Access, #9 state for Affordability, and #11 state for Education. Iowa is up one spot from the 2023 overall rankings and up two spots in education. "Iowa is recognized as one of the best states to live, work, and raise a family b  more

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in Iowa, Virginia * * * The Department of Labor has entered into a consent order and judgment, approved by a federal court in Iowa on May 6, 2024, with a Tennessee cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $649,304 in civil money penalties, hire a third-party to review and implement company policies to prev  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 8 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, in partnership with D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond, and Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr, co-sponsored a multistate letter (https://www.mass.gov/doc/fy-2025-naag-letter-to-congress-in-support-of-legal-services-corporation-lsc/download) sent by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys gener  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, May 8 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey today announced he is co-leading a multistate coalition in filing suit against the Biden Administration's unconstitutional rewrite of Title IX that forces schools and universities to allow biological males in female spaces. He filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on behalf of six state attorneys  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, May 8 -- North Dakota Attorney Drew Wrigley issued the following news on May 7, 2024: Attorney General Drew H. Wrigley today joined Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, an Arkansas high school athlete, and a coalition of three other state attorneys general filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the U.S. Department of Education over its new rule interpreting Title IX. Congress enacted  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 8 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Attorney General Mike Hilgers joined with other state attorneys general in opposing the Biden Administration's strict new energy-efficiency standards for refrigerators and freezers. The new rule was proposed by several advocacy groups and adopted wholesale by the federal Department of Energy. The effect of the rule will be to increase the costs of the appliances nationwide. "In its latest fede  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, May 8 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Attorney General Hilgers joined a coalition of six state attorneys general filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against the U.S. Department of Education over its new rule interpreting Title IX. "Title IX has a long history of protecting women from harassment and creating opportunities for female athletes. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration thinks it   more

WASHINGTON, May 7 (TNSres) -- The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued the following readout of an event on May 6, 2024, with the National Science Foundation and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on the opportunities at the AI Research Frontier: * * * Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) convene  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man who possessed a firearm as a prohibited person and possessed methamphetamine with the intent to distribute pled guilty May 3, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Tirrell Harlan Hopkins, Jr., age 23, from Mason City, Iowa, was convicted of one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and one count of possession with intent to distribute a contr  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man from Mason City, originally from Alabama, was sentenced May 6, 2024, to more than 18 years in federal prison. Tristan Walker, age 44, received the prison term after a January 2, 2024, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Evidence in the case revealed between October 2022, and December 2022, Walker knowingly and intentionally conspired and t  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A Nebraska man who planned to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced on May 7, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Calvin Wright, 33, from Creighton, Nebraska, pled guilty on January 24, 2024, to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Wright was previously convicted of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in 2016 in Nebraska. Evi  more