WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funding includes nearly $500K for the Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas * * * LENEXA, KAN. (DEC. 12, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of 16 organizations to receive nearly $7.5 million in grants for environmental job training programs across the country. EPA's Brownfields Job Training Program Grants are funded by President Biden's   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued the following news release: Today, the FBI and DHS jointly issued a statement on reported drone sightings in New Jersey: "We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus. The FBI, DHS and our federal partners, in close coordination with the New Jersey State Police, continue to deploy personnel and technology to investigate this situa  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, announced today that the Department of Justice, following a comprehensive investigation, has concluded that the Mount Vernon Police Department ("MVPD") engages in a patter  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2024: * * * Teamsters Local 11 Plan Preserves Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance * * * The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Teamsters Local 11 Pension Plan (Teamsters Local 11 Plan). The plan, based in North Haledon, New Jersey, covers 2,0  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: PHILADELPHIA U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a shipment of a potentially dangerous tianeptine, known on the street as "gas station heroin," at an international express consignment facility in South Jersey on December 4 that was destined to an address in Edgewater, N.J. CBP officers inspected two separate parcels on November 25 and December 2  more