MCGUIRE AFB, New Jersey, May 8 -- The U.S. Air Force's 514th Air Mobility Wing issued the following news: By Tech. Sgt. Sean Evans, 514th Air Mobility Wing During the May Unit Training Assembly, the 514th Air Mobility Wing's First Sergeant Council and Top 3 Council organized a Blues Exchange drive at the McGuire Chapel at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on May 5, 2024. The drive is designed to assist Airmen of the Freedom Wing donate dress blue uniform items they no longer use and ex  more

OAKLAND, California, May 8 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general filed an amicus brief in support of Massachusetts' assault weapons and large-capacity magazine ban. The brief, filed in Capen v. Campbell, urges the First Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a lower court's ruling that the law was consistent with the Second Amendment. "States play an esse  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, May 8 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Attorney General William Tong today joined a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit defending Massachusetts' commonsense gun safety laws. The amicus brief, joined by 18 other jurisdictions, implores the court to allow the state's decades-old ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines (  more

MONTCLAIR, New Jersey, May 8 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Today, during Mental Health Awareness Month, Lieutenant Governor Tahesha Way and Secretary of Higher Education Brian K. Bridges, Ph.D., announced New Jersey college students will have free, 24/7/365 access to teletherapy, crisis connection and wellness programming through the remainder of the Murphy Administration. Launched one year ago, the state's first-in-the-nation partnership w  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, May 8 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 18 attorneys general, today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit on behalf of Massachusetts, defending its commonsense gun safety laws from a Second Amendment challenge. In the brief, Raoul and the coalition urge the court to uphold the state's decades-old ban on the sale and possession of as  more

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, New Jersey, May 8 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the following news release: * * * Primetime Construction LLC, subsidiary commit to enhanced corrective measures * * * Two related North Jersey construction contractor companies - Primetime Construction LLC and its subsidiary Primetime Contractors LLC of Paterson - have agreed to pay $215,000 in penalties and undertake several significant safety measures to resolve numerou  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

BALTIMORE, Maryland, May 8 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Attorney General Anthony Brown today joined a multistate amicus brief (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/050724_Capen_Multistate_Amicus.pdf) filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of Massachusetts, which is defending its common-sense gun safety laws against a Second Amendment challenge. The brief, joined by 18 other attorn  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 8 -- New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Today, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin led a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in support of Massachusetts, which is defending its commonsense gun safety laws from a Second Amendment challenge. The amicus brief, joined by 18 other jurisdictions, urges the court to allow the state's decades-old ban on the sale  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 8 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Governor Phil Murphy today announced senior-level personnel transitions within the New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) and the Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC). Effective May 20, 2024, Jeff Brown, who currently serves as the Executive Director of CRC, will transition to DOH to serve as the Deputy Commissioner for Health Systems. He will succeed DOH Deputy Commissioner Robin Ford  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 8 -- Gov. Phil Murphy, D-New Jersey, issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: Governor Phil Murphy today announced that the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley-based firm and innovation platform known for connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, and government agencies, have launched an accelerator hub known as the Fintech Accelerator at Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ FAST). FAST is the fir  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: A chief engineer employed by a Greek shipping company today admitted charges related to the discharge of oily waste into the sea from a commercial vessel near a petroleum terminal in Sewaren, New Jersey; he and a second engineer also admitted concealment of pollution from that vessel through the falsification of records, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: A New Jersey doctor was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for participating in a health care fraud scheme to defraud Amtrak, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Muhammad Mirza, 51, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty by videoconference before U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo to an information charging him with one co  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 7, 2024: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Justice Department unsealed charges today against a Russian national for his alleged role as the creator, developer, and administrator of the LockBit ransomware group from its inception in September 2019 through the present. At times, LockBit was the most prolific ransomware group in t  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57103) involving Hope Creek Nuclear Plant, New Jersey: * * * Facility: Hope Creek Region: 1 State: NJ Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] GE-4 NRC Notified By: Daniel White HQ OPS Officer: Sam Colvard Notification Date: 05/03/2024 Notification Time: 11:56 [ET] Event Date: 05/03/2024 Event Time: 04:11 [EDT] Last Update Date: 05/03/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news on May 7, 2024: Principal Research Physicist Stephen Jardin recalls walking down the hall in the Theory Wing of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in the 1970s and seeing legendary physicists Katherine Weimer, John Greene and John Johnson working together at a blackboard. One of the physicists would write calculations while the  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: A resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $97 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $30 million and the proceeds from the sale of a yacht for conspiring to commit health care fraud and conspiring to p  more

FORT BARFOOT, Virginia, May 8 -- The Virginia National Guard issued the following news: By Sgt. 1st Class Terra C. Gatti, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs Office ROTC cadets from six Virginia universities came together for a marksmanship match hosted by the Virginia National Guard's Marksmanship Training Unit, as well as the state's Recruiting and Retention Battalion. The event, held April 19-21, 2024, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia, was dubbed the 2024 ROTC College Clash Marksmanship Competi  more