WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Honorable William A. LaPlante, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Defense Acquisition Awards. The five annual awards, representing 23 separate categories, recognize individual and team accomplishments that have advanced the National Defense Strategy and supported the Secretary of Defense's priorities through excellence in acquisition. The wi more PR

RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: Children who are subject to constant relocation are typically from a military family, right? This isn't true for U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Charles Houck and others like him. From the ages of 6 to 12, Houck was placed into foster care due to unfortunate circumstances. As a result, he moved often--staying in different group homes in several states. From 12 to 15, he was briefly  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued the following recall alert: Dec. 2, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for frozen ready-to-eat pork mortadella products that may have been illegally imported from Ecuador, a country ineligible to export meat and poultry products to the United States. FSIS is continuing to investigate the origins of this product, an more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, issued the following news release: Press Republican: In my Opinion: Stefanik right choice for UN By John J. Metzler Showdowns loom in the new year as New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been nominated to serve as United Nations Ambassador by the President-elect Donald Trump. Should she be approved by the Senate, Rep. Stefanik who has served in the U.S. Congress for a decade representing upstate New York's 21st Congressio more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Dec. 3 -- Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today announced the release of tobacco settlement fund audits for 48 health care facilities in Allegheny, Beaver, Berks, Bucks, Cambria, Chester, Clearfield, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, Lackawanna, Lawrence, Lehigh, Mercer, Montour, Philadelphia, , Wayne and York counties. "Our audits ensure hospitals have documentation to support the more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Dec. 2, 2024: An Oregon man was sentenced to prison today after he previously pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement and other offenses 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. Jon more PR