WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Rep. John B. Larson, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Funding to help farmers impacted by disaster is on the way for those who have been seeking help. That's one aspect of what came out of a vote in Washington D.C. that in part prevented a government shutdown. A 13 minute hailstorm in August(link is external) destroyed William Dellacamera's crops and cost him $400,000. He was only able to receive a little less than half of that from programs already in   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 24 -- The Journal of Religious History, a peer-reviewed journal from the Religious History Society that says it features history of religions and its relationship with the human experience, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 48, Issue 4): ARTICLE * The Black Dog of Bungay: Religious Conflict and Supernatural Terror in a Suffolk Parish * Preaching in Counter-Reformation Malta: Don Ignazio Saverio Mifsud (1739-54) *   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 24 (TNSwrap) (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following MIT in the Media: 2024 in Review: * * * MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges. * * * From a new Institute-wide effort aimed at addressing climate change to a collaborative that brings together MIT researchers and local hospitals to advance health and medicine, a Nobel prize win for two economists exami  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that she created and secured funding in the government funding and disaster assistance package for a Farm Recovery and Support Block Grant Program for small and medium-sized farmers. "This year, we have seen the devastating impacts of extreme, localized weather events on small farmers across the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: HARTFORD, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TARA SEVERINO, 58, of West Haven, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to two years of probation, the first six months of which Severino must serve in home confinement, for diverting n  more