GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, June 18 -- The Altru Health System issued the following news: * * * Altru Nurse Candy Lagamayo Receives DAISY Award for Compassion and Attentiveness Altru is proud to recognize Candy Lagamayo, RN, a 7th floor nurse at Altru's Grand Forks hospital, as the newest recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Lagamayo was nominated by several patients who described her as an exceptionally caring nurse whose compassion, attentiveness, and proactive approach ma  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 17 [Category: BizFood/Beverage] -- Anheuser-Busch, a brewing company, issued the following news release: * * * Anheuser-Busch Launches the "ComBar" to Celebrate American Farmers and U.S. Farmed Beer Built from a real combine harvester, first-of-its-kind ComBar signifies Anheuser - Busch's commitment to U.S. agriculture and sourcing the highest-quality American-grown ingredients Embarking on a nationwide tour encouraging consumers to "Choose Beer Grown Here" in supp  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 17 -- Educational Testing Service issued the following news release on June 16, 2026: * * * As AI Enters the Classroom, ETS's Praxis Expands ProEthica to Prepare Educators for New Challenges ETS's Praxis program, the leading provider of teacher licensure assessments, today announced the expansion of ProEthica, its research based professional ethics program for educators. This expansion introduces new capabilities and content designed to meet the rapidly changing re  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 17 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson supports protecting minors from irreversible sex intervention treatment * Attorney General Alan Wilson recently joined a 23-state friend-of-the-court brief in support of Florida's lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics for misleading and deceptive representations regarding minor gender transition procedures.  Florida's lawsuit contends t  more

FARGO, North Dakota, June 17 -- North Dakota State University posted the following news: * * * Bison Spotlight: Maggie Latterell and Angela Seewald-Marquardt, Student Success Programs * On-campus first-year student orientation at NDSU, which starts in June and runs through early August, is often the first step in preparing for college that many incoming Bison take. Preparations for orientation, however, have been ongoing for more than nine months for two members of NDSU's Student Success Pro  more

CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, June 18 -- The National Corn Growers Association issued the following news: * * * Corn Growers Urge USDA to Fund Research on Corn Grain, Not Just Stover Author: Abby Meier The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with 15 state corn organizations, delivered a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Under Secretary of Research, Education, and Economics Scott Hutchins, encouraging investment in research that supports the full value of corn grain as   more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, issued the following news release: * * * Cramer Chairs SASC Airland Subcommittee Hearing on Army Modernization * WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) chaired the Senate Armed Services Airland Subcommittee in a hearing examining how the Army is accelerating modernization in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 President's Budget submission. The hearing spotlighted the Army's push to expand critical munitions and missile production,  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48996) entitled "Implementation of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Programs: CFI and NEVI" by energy policy analyst Melissa N. Diaz. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA; P.L. 117-58) established two federal programs to support the expansion of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure: the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NE  more

FARGO, North Dakota, June 17 -- North Dakota State University posted the following news: * * * NDSU assistant professor receives USDA-NIFA award to help manage CLS in sugarbeets * NDSU assistant professor of bioenvironmental and structural engineering Xiaoyu (Iris) Feng has received a $728,000 award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) for her research project entitled, "Portable Dual-Function Biosensor for Early Detection   more

DAYTON, Ohio, June 17 -- The University of Dayton posted the following news: * * * Political scientist examines how Brown won Trump's Ohio * How did Sherrod Brown win re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2018 in a state Donald Trump had just carried by eight points, and where Republicans swept every other statewide race? In a chapter for The Liberal Heartland, University of Dayton political scientist Christopher Devine examines Brown's campaign that ran on an unapologetically liberal record w  more

FARGO, North Dakota, June 17 -- North Dakota State University posted the following news: * * * Tokach receives NDDA Award to help manage Varroa mites * Rogan Tokach, NDSU assistant professor of applied honey bee entomology, has received an award of $115,000 from the North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) for his project, "Strategies for Varroa mite management in commercial beekeeping operations." The Varroa mite has been a main cause of honey bee colony losses in the United States s  more