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

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 8 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on May 7, 2024: * * * Following a decision in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in a single section of the LEARNS Act, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "Today's decision confirms what I've said all along. Arkansas law doesn't prohibit teaching the history of segregation, the civil rights movement, or slavery. I'm pleased that the District   more

DALLAS, Texas, May 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 7, 2024, entitled "Business Employment Dynamics in Louisiana - Third Quarter 2023": * * * From June 2023 to September 2023, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments in Louisiana were 97,306, while gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 96,084, the U.S. Burea  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 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

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana issued the following news release: Forrest Kevin Dwayne Matthews, 39, of Lafayette, Louisiana, has been sentenced on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. Matthews was sentenced by United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 160 months (13 years, 4 months) in prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to a Bill of Informa  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: * * * Per pupil average rose to $15,591; instruction-related costs accounted for nearly 60 percent of current spending * * * Annual spending for public elementary and secondary education increased by nearly 2 percent to $767.8 billion for the 2021-22 school year (fiscal 2022), after adjusting for inflation, according to new data released   more

WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSres) -- The National Endowment for the Arts issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Today, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) premiered a series of tribute films celebrating the lives and work of the nine gifted individuals awarded the 2023 NEA National Heritage Fellowship, the nation's highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Beautifully crafted vignettes take viewers on a journey of discovery into the lives and communities of these artists and provide  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

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 8 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on May 7, 2024: * * * Following the dismissal of attorney and blogger Matt Campbell's lawsuit against Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders today by the Pulaski County Circuit Court, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "This was the proper outcome for this baseless case after Mr. Campbell failed to serve process within 120 days of filing the complaint--the second time this y  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: CARLOS PEDILLIA-SERNA, age 34, a resident of California, was sentenced on Friday, May 3, 2024 to serve 135 months in the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons for his role in the distribution of over 40 lbs of pure methamphetamine to individuals in Terrebonne Parish. PEDILLIA-SERNA pleaded guilty on January 24, 2024, before U.S. District Judge Jane T  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: * * * Five Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Local Pair with Conspiracy to Commit Murder of Federal Witness in Connection with the Staging of Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area * * * The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the unsealing of a Five Count Indictment charging RYAN J. HARRIS ("HARRIS"), age 35, of New Orleans, Louisiana and JOVANNA R.   more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.2 million grant to the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana in Elton, Louisiana, to construct fiber optic cable on Tribal land in both Allen and Jefferson Parish. This grant will construct fiber optic cable along U.S. 165, bringing high-speed int  more