NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, March 6 (TNScapv) -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: BASIS Independent McLean was named the first place winner at the 2024 Virginia Regional Middle School Science Bowl competition on March 2. The U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility hosted the in-person event for the first time since 2020. A rainy day didn't dampen the excitement as 15 teams from 11 more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, March 6 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following news on March 5, 2024: San Rafael Falls was Ecuador's tallest at 430 feet. It ceased to exist in 2021. An upstream riverbed collapsed in 2020, diverting the river through a sinkhole below the falls and eventually destroying the natural lava dam that supported it. "A lava-dam collapse of this scale was previously known only in the prehistoric sense," said USGS Research Geologist Amy East, who was more PR

NORFOLK, Virginia, March 6 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: The official kick-off ceremony for this year's Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS) Active-Duty Fund Drive (ADFD) was held at U.S. Fleet Forces Command Headquarters on board Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, March 5. This year's NMCRS ADFD chair is Rear Adm. Doug Verissimo, commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic (AIRLANT). During the ceremony, remarks were provided by Verissimo, as well as  more PR

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Austin M. Ferguson, age 28, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for the distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, Ferguson was selling heroin capsules when he flashed a 9mm pistol, removed more PR

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Javier Lewis Howard, age 41, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for the distribution of cocaine. According to court documents and statements made in court, during a traffic stop, officers found heroin, prescription pills, and $3,774 inside Howard's vehicle. more PR

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Malachi Michael George, age 20, of Cumberland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for trafficking firearms. According to court documents and statements made in court, the investigation began with a shots-fired incident in Maryland, leading officers to several firearms traced to Quinton Baker. Baker purchased the firearms  more PR

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Kenneth Carey Markley, age 45, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a firearms conspiracy. According to court documents and statements made in court, Markley worked with others to illegally purchase and sell firearms in West Virginia and Maryland. Markley, who's prohibited from having firearms becaus more PR

WHEELING, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Nolan Eugene McCray, age 39, of Cedar Lane, Texas, has admitted to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, McCray was identified during an investigation into drug activity. A Wetzel County property where McCray had stayed was searched and officers found methamphetamine and $14,5 more PR

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Two Eastern Panhandle residents were sentenced today for drug trafficking. Kimberely Sue Smith, age 54, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine base. According to court documents and state more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million grant to the Economic Development Authority of Floyd County, Virginia, for roadway and wastewater infrastructure improvements to support business growth. This grant will provide the infrastructure needed to su more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 6 -- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency issued the following news releas eon March 5, 2024: The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is supporting Vietnam's efforts to develop regulations that will streamline its ability to procure top-tier medical devices from U.S. companies and strengthen the quality of healthcare in Vietnam. From March 11-22, USTDA will host Vietnamese health officials in the United States to exchange information and solicit input from U.S more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Three members of a Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, family pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute fentanyl. According to court documents, Hadja Franklin, 55, Nabyunissa Bangoura ("Nayunissa"), 34, Tanziludin Bangurah ("Tanziludin"), 52, manufactured counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax in a laboratory in their residence in rural Pennsylvania, wh more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: James Evans Hughes, 51, of Sumerco, pleaded guilty today to distribution of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 28, 2018, Hughes sold a quantity of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in the South Charleston area of Kanawha County. Hughes admitted to that transaction and furth more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Denise R. Allen, 29, of Bluefield, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on August 16, 2023, Allen and another individual were apprehended at a gun store in Princeton, West Virginia. Following their arrest, Allen and the  more PR