LENEXA, Kansas, Feb. 15 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. will pay $270,412 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Nebraska regulations governing hazardous waste management, and the terms of its Hazardous Waste Management Facility Permits. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company operates as a hazardous waste treatmen  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Kansas City's acting Special Agent in Charge Taekuk Cho presented the HSI KC office's 2023 Agency Partnership Award, Feb. 13, to KBI Director Tony Mattivi, who accepted the award on behalf of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) and Attorney General Kris Kobach, accepting for the Kansas Attorney Ge  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Feb. 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee issued the following news release on Feb. 14, 2024: A federal judge has sentenced a Lewis County man to more than 22 years in federal prison for his role in an organized drug trafficking scheme. William Rainey, 46, of Hohenwald, TN was the last of 11 people in western Tennessee to be sentenced in the case. United States District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson also ordered Rainey to serve 10 year  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release: U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced a St. Louis, Missouri man involved in fatal and nonfatal carjackings and a jail escape to 60 years in prison. Kurt Wallace, 31, shot the drivers during three separate carjackings in 2017 that were set up via a dating app and Wallace's co-defendant, Jherrica Dixon. On Oct. 16, 2017, he fatally shot Jaz   more