BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging KYLE PETERSEN, 38, of Newington, and ERIK PETERSEN, also known as "P  more

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington, May 9 -- The U.S. Air Force McChord Air Force Base (62nd Airlift Wing) issued the following news: By Airman 1st Class Megan Geiger, 62d Airlift Wing Public Affairs The McChord Field Honor Guard held a Hail and Farewell ceremony at the base theater at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, April 30, 2024. The ceremony recognized the dedication and accomplishments of Honor Guard's 2023 bravo flight and welcomed the incoming members of 2024 alpha flight. The  more

NEW YORK, May 9 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: New York Attorney General Letitia James today joined a multistate coalition of 18 attorneys general in defending commonsense gun safety laws and the rights of states to enact measures to protect their residents from gun violence. The amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit urges the court to allow Massachusetts' decades-old ban on the sale and possession of   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 8 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on May 6, 2024, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the RSA Conference on technology and the transformation of U.S. foreign policy: * * * SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good afternoon, RSA Conference. (Cheers and applause.) Wonderful to be with all of you today. And now we finally know what Ferris Bueller did on his day off. (Laughter.) To all of the cyber practitioners, the innovators, the researchers who   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. AB 33; AB 1338X) entitled "Union Pacific Railroad Co. - Abandonment Exemption - in St. Louis County, Missouri; Missouri Eastern Railroad LLC - Discontinuance of Service Exemption - in St. Louis County, Missouri": * * * Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) and Missouri Eastern Railroad, LLC (MER) (collectively, Applicants) have jointly filed a verified notice of exemp  more

EUGENE, Oregon, May 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on May 8, 2024: A Bend, Oregon man with a lengthy criminal history was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison today for possessing methamphetamine and a firearm. Dana Lee Johnson, 41, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison and five years' supervised release. According to court documents, on March 26, 2021, a deputy from the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office r  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: With temperatures on the rise and spring upon us, Pacific Coast beaches beckon humans to the shore. In fact, the Long Beach Razor Clam Festival, in Washington, alone is expected to draw about 7,500 clam diggers to the shore when it returns May 10 and 11. But humans aren't the only species keenly interested in seeing what low tide has to offer this time of year. Thi  more