BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Philadelphia woman has been sentenced to eight days in prison for conspiring to distribute kilos of fentanyl and heroin. The government recommended a sentence of 37 months in prison. Elba Pena, 34, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2024 by U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs to time served (eight days) and three years of supervised release with one year to b  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 7 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Feb. 6, 2024, entitled "Boston Area Employment - December 2023": * * * Total nonfarm employment for the Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH, metropolitan area increased by 77,900 over the year in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the local rate of job  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2024: * * * City to Invest Approximately $195 Million in Total to Upgrade Sewage Systems and Protect Drinking Water for Downstream Communities * * * Today, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced a settlement agreement with the City of Lowell, Massachusetts, requiring the city to reduce sewage discharges into th  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Brazilian sex offender Jan. 25 who was recently convicted of assault and battery and indecent assault and battery. Deportation officers from ERO Boston made the arrest near the offender's residence in Peabody, Massachusetts. ERO Boston arrested him as part of a recent national immigration enf  more

LONDON, England, Feb. 7 -- GlaxoSmithKline, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release on Feb. 6, 2024: GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced that the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has accepted for review the regulatory application of Shingrix (Recombinant Zoster Vaccine or RZV) for the prevention of shingles (herpes zoster) in adults aged 18 years and over at increased risk. Recombinant Zoster Vaccine (RZV)   more

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 6 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: The National Football League (NFL) and the American Heart Association want more people to be confident and capable when faced with a cardiac emergency, adding more people to the Association's Nation of Lifesavers(tm) movement, which intends to double survival rates by 2030. According to American Heart Association data, nine out of every ten of people who experience cardiac arrest o  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2024: The Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced a settlement agreement with the City of Lowell, Massachusetts, requiring the city to reduce sewage discharges into the Merrimack River. Under the consent decree, Lowell will pay a $200,000 penalty for past violations. A portion of Lowell's wastewater collection system consists of sewers   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing more than 1.2 kilograms of methamphetamine to distribute and illegally possessing two firearms. Christopher Kelley, 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 16 years and six months in federal prison without parole. On July 20, 2  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man with a lengthy criminal history, to include more than a dozen convictions for a wide variety of offenses, including breaking and entering, drug trafficking, domestic violence, forgery and counterfeiting, larceny, armed bank robbery, and carrying a concealed weapon, was sentenced today to five years in federa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: SAN DIEGO - Derek Neal Turfler of San Diego was sentenced in federal court today to 97 months in prison for his role in selling fentanyl pills to a 27-year-old woman who fatally overdosed on May 9, 2022. According to his plea agreement, Turfler arranged a meeting to deliver fentanyl to the victim, Faithe Sioban Thogode, who died later that m  more

CALLAGHAN, Australia, Feb. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Newcastle issued the following news: University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute researchers are working to better understand which stress management techniques and tools work, and who they're working for. In a new long-term citizen science project dubbed FOCUS-R (Focus on Understanding Stress, Resilience and the Capacity to Adapt), the study aims to find out what internal and external resources people are using to ma  more