WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued the following remarks at a news conference announcing four affiliated military personnel charged with war crimes in connection with Russia's invasion of Ukraine: * * * I am joined today by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Chris Wray, Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber, and ICE Acting Deputy Director Staci Barrera. Also h more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news: Chief Master Sgt. David A. Flosi was selected Dec. 11 to be the 20th Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, adding a deeply experienced and proven Airman to the top echelon of Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin's emerging leadership team. In announcing the selection, Allvin noted Flosi's experience, leadership and achievements across his Air Force career and said Flosi brings qualities to the  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: The Department of State endorsed, and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered congressional notification of, a proposed Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case for submarine training devices, personnel training, planning, and nonrecurring engineering (NRE) services in support of the AUKUS Pillar One Optimal Pathway. The case will span nine years and have a ceiling of $2 billion pending passage of several legisla more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Dec. 12 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 21, 2023, entitled "Virginia Job Openings and Labor Turnover - September 2023": * * * Virginia had 263,000 job openings in September 2023, compared to 264,000 openings in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the job openi more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Education Activity issued the following news release: As School Year 2023-2024 gets underway, Fort Campbell High School (FCHS) students enrolled in the Advanced Placement (AP) Research Capstone Program are readying themselves for a challenging and rewarding experience thanks to a recently established partnership between FCHS and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute (VBI). The two-year AP program allows FCHS students to develop colleg more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Federal Voting Assistance Program issued the following news: FVAP's latest research note uses 2022 transactional data to assess the absentee voting process for military and overseas citizen voters. The results of this study show the importance of Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) protections. These safeguards allow voters to successfully complete the voting process by leveraging the 45-day peri more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A federal jury in Norfolk, Virginia, convicted three men yesterday of conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Ronald Jenkins, 42, of Franklin, Virginia; Japree Brooks, 40, of Murfreesboro, North Carolina; and Malik Newsome, 30, of Ivor, Virginia, participated in three shootings in 2017 and 2019 in Franklin, Virginia. All three men were mem more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2023: The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in West Virginia has announced today the dates for a signup under the Organic Transition Initiative (OTI). Under this initiative, NRCS will dedicate financial and technical assistance to a new organic management standard and partner with new organic technical experts to increase staff capacity and more PR

PORTSMOUTH, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: By Christina Johnson Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) held a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the designation of the medical center as a Level II Trauma Center, Dec. 8. NMCP's leadership was notified by the Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services in August 2023 that the medical center received the provisional designation as a Level II Trauma Center that means it can receive severel more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Space Force issued the following news: Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has redesignated Space Operations Command West as U.S. Space Forces - Space, a U.S. Space Force Component Field Command directly subordinate to the Chief of Space Operations for execution of the Secretary of the Air Force's responsibilities under Title 10, U.S. Code for Service-specific administration and support functions on Dec. 6. U.S. Space Command Commander, Army Gen. J more PR

CLARKSBURG, West Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2023: A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for selling thousands of heroin and fentanyl stamps in Harrison County. James Curtis Jones, also known as "Donk," 26, pled guilty in August 2022 to a distribution charge near a protected location, Emmanuel Christian School in Clarksburg. Jones was supplyin more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2023: The U.S. Treasury Department today sanctioned two former Afghan government officials for widespread involvement in international corruption, following their nomination by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. Mir Rahman Rahmani and his son, Ajmal Rahmani, were s more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica D. Aber, issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2023: A federal jury today convicted an Arlington woman of illegally prescribing and distributing oxycodone pills, a controlled substance. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Kirsten Van Steenberg Ball, 69, issued prescriptions for over one million oxycodone pills. Ball was a primary care physician who operated a medical more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica D. Aber, issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2023: A federal jury convicted three men yesterday on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and other crimes. According to court records and evidence presented at trial, Ronald Jenkins, 42, of Franklin; Japree Brooks, 40, of Murfreesboro, North Carolina; and Malik Newsome, 30, of Ivor, participated in three shootings in 2017 and 2019 in Franklin. more PR