WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Honorable William A. LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Defense Acquisition Awards. The five annual awards, representing 23 separate categories, recognize individual and team accomplishments that have advanced the National Defense Strategy and supported the Secretary of Defense's priorities through excellence in acquisition. The wi  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: STERLING, Va. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police arrested a Texas woman on November 23 after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers discovered over 71 pounds of marijuana in her baggage at Washington Dulles International Airport. MWAA Police charged Du Li Park, 30, of The Colony, Texas, with felony possession with intent to distribute, tra  more

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command issued the following news release: MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. -- Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) marked a milestone in its support of the F-35 Lightning II program when the depot recently inducted and completed modifications on its 150th F-35 and returned the aircraft to the Fleet. FRCE is the lead site for depot-level maintenance on the F-35B Lightning II and has conducted modifications and repair on th  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued the following recall alert: Dec. 2, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for frozen ready-to-eat pork mortadella products that may have been illegally imported from Ecuador, a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States. FSIS is continuing to investigate the origins of this product, an  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 3 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on Dec. 1, 2024: The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in Laurel, Howard County, Maryland, Saturday afternoon. On Saturday, November 30, 2024, at approximately 3:10 p.m., officers with the Howard County Police Department responded to a home in the 10000 block of American Pharoah Lane in  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following decision (Docket No. AB 290) entitled "Norfolk Southern Railway Co. - Abandonment Exemption - In the City of Baltimore, Maryland": * * * On October 31, 2024, Norfolk Southern Railway Company filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 C.F.R. part 1152 subpart F--Exempt Abandonments to abandon its freight rail easement over an approximately one-mile rail line extending from milepost  more