WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Nearly $7 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to replace 150 lead service lines and complete lead service line inventory * * * NEW LONDON, CONN. (Aug. 23, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's New England Regional Administrator David W. Cash was in New London today along with federal, local and state partners to celebrate the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Lead Service more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: LENEXA, KAN. (AUG. 20, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $25.5 million in grants through a new program to support drinking water systems in underserved, small, and disadvantaged communities while reducing impacts of climate change. This is the first time EPA is awarding funding under the Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability grant prog more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Powder Ridge Mountain Park, LLC's noncompliance related to its use of anhydrous ammonia in an ice-making unit on its slopes * * * BOSTON (Aug. 19, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently entered into an Administrative Order on Consent with Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort, LLC (Powder Ridge) located in Middlefield, Connecticut, addressing an alleged violation of the Clea more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: Today, August 20, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $25.5 million in grants through a new program to support drinking water systems in underserved, small, and disadvantaged communities while reducing impacts of climate change. This is the first time EPA is awarding funding under the Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program, with the 16 more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Atlanta (August 21, 2024) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $25.5 million in grants through a new program to support drinking water systems in underserved, small, and disadvantaged communities while reducing impacts of climate change. This is the first time EPA is awarding funding under the Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program, with the 16 inaugu more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: HARTFORD, Conn. Enforecment and Removal Operations Boston apprehended a Mexican national wanted by authorities in his home country for aggravated homicide. Officers with ERO Boston's Hartford field office arrested the 42-year-old Mexican noncitizen Aug. 20 in Seymour. "This Mexican noncitizen committed an aggravated murder in his native country, and then fled more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 20 -- 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 Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ONIEL WILKS, 45, a citizen of Jamaica, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 384 months of imprisonment for narcotics trafficking, passport fraud, identity fraud, and money laundering offenses. A more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2024: The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc. for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords u more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 21 -- 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 Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHNNY MILNER, also known as "Blaze" and "O.G.," 46, of Hartford, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 10 years of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fent more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. SAMUEL DOUGLAS, also known as "Blamm," 25, of New Haven, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a violent New Haven street gang. Today's announcement was made by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United more PR

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, Aug. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina posted the following news release on Aug. 23, 2024: The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against RealPage Inc. for its unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market  more PR

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release: A Connecticut man admitted his role in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) health care fraud and kickback scheme, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced. Jesse Foote, 58, of Fairfield, Connecticut, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in Newark federal court to a two-count information charging him with conspiracy to  more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Aug. 20, 2024: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONY RICCARDI, an owner and manager of the Connecticut insurance firm Employee Benefit Solutions LLC ("EBS"), was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Between 2015 and 2019, RICCARDI and his co-conspira more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 -- The White House issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that an emergency exists in the State of Connecticut and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides beginning on August 18, 2024, and continuing. The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emerg more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance is available to the state of Connecticut to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides beginning on Aug. 18, 2024, and continuing. The President's action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts to alleviate the ha more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Connecticut man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement with a weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Richard Markey, 38, of Wolcott, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to  more PR