DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: 37, 000 tons of stone is being placed on the Milwaukee Harbor south breakwater over a five month period by the Lake Michigan Floating Plant assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District (USACE). Funding this year allowed the project to grow from its usual 5,000-10,000 tons per year. The floating plant conducts stone placement at Calumet Harbor, Chicago Harbor, Mil  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: A federal jury convicted seven defendants today of federal civil rights offenses arising out of their blockade of a reproductive health care clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Aug. 27, 2020. The defendants were each convicted of a felony conspiracy against rights and a Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offense. Two defendants were convicted of a second FACE Act offense   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) today announced $25.7 million in Save America's Treasures grants to fund 59 projects that will preserve nationally significant sites and historic collections in 26 states and the District of Columbia. "The Save America's Treasures program began 25 years ago and continues to enable communities across the United States to preserve   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation are investing $16 million across 10 projects that will conduct basic science with direct conservation applications to benefit species and ecosystems. The projects are awarded under the second year of grants from the Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice (PACSP) program, a first-of-its-kind collaboration  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Aug. 20 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2024: Charles Clinton Cordle, 66, of Ashland, Kentucky, and Josie Irene Copley, 59, of Flatwoods, Kentucky, were each sentenced today to three years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for their roles in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing large quantities of metham  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: Researchers with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation recently discovered that Saharan dust is the number one variable linked to tropical cyclone rainfall. They published their findings in the journal, Science Advances. Trade winds lift the dust over the Saharan desert and across the Atlantic Ocean. The tiny particles are the predominant aerosol type during summer and early fall over  more