WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: * * * One Mississippi applicant selected to receive funding for 15 zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles, along with infrastructure and workforce development projects, to tackle climate change, reduce air pollution, and advance environmental justice * * * JACKSON, Miss. - On December 11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Jackson Public Schools has been select more PR

RANDOLPH AFB, Texas, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command issued the following news: COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. Sixteen Undergraduate Pilot Training student pilots of Class 25-03, graduated on December 13, 2024, at the Columbus Event Center on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The UPT graduation ceremony officially marks the completion of initial flight training in the T-6 Texan II as students earn their wings and begin the next phase of advanced pilot traini more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Department of Justice and the State of Illinois, announced the filing of a complaint against the City of East St. Louis, Illinois. The complaint seeks penalties and infrastructure improvements to remedy East St. Louis' failure to operate its sewer system in compliance with the Clean Water Act. This failure has led to hundreds of unlawful disc more PR

JACKSON, Mississippi, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: A Jackson man pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. On December 11, 2024, after eight days of trial in federal court, Marcus Davis, 44, pled guilty to his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy. Prosecutors presented evidence and testimony at trial that Davis conspired with another individual to  more PR

JACKSON, Mississippi, Dec. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi issued the following news release: Three individuals pled guilty today to their roles in a murder on the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' Reservation. According to court documents, in September 2023, Michael Jeffrey Shaffer, Sr., 48, and Montero Ray Willis, 22, used a firearm to shoot and kill a tribal member in the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians' Rese more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36819) entitled "MSE Holding Co. - Intra-Corporate Family Control Exemption - Mississippi Export Railroad Co. and Alabama Export Railroad Inc.": * * * MSE Holding Company (MSE Holding) has filed a verified notice of exemption for an intra-corporate family transaction under 49 C.F.R. 1180.2(d)(3) to authorize its proposed control of two Class III rail carriers,  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on Dec. 12, 2024: Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species throughout its range under the Endangered Species Act. Eastern hellbenders are found in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West  more PR