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Nov. 27– Oklahoma’s decision to accept a settlement with big tobacco 15 years ago has led to big bucks. Oklahoma is the only state with a constitutionally protected trust for tobacco settlement funds. Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was one of eight state attorneys general charged with negotiating the then-largest settlement in the nation’s…

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc., the leader in professional data archiving solutions, announces a Customer win at Sangamon County Circuit Clerk’ s Office, official keeper of all court records for the Seventh Judicial Court of Sangamon County in Springfield, Illinois. The integrated solution, consisting of ASTI’ s Network Attached Storage based Archive…

Nov. 27– UNION GAP, Wash.– The Union Gap City Council has authorized its city manager to explore opportunities for contracting out fire services to the city of Yakima as well as any other interested entities. The proposal to pay another entity to provide fire services had originally only included exploring options with Yakima. But Mayor Roger Wentz said the…

Nov. 27– Lynchburg City Council approved plans Tuesday to move the tourism program in house. The transition is part of the dissolution of the long-term partnership with the Lynchburg Regional Chamber of Commerce. City Manager Kimball Payne said current tourism employees will be offered jobs with the city at their existing pay rates.

Nov. 27– Eight players from Emory& Henry were named to the All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference team. On the All-ODAC Second Team for E&H are junior offensive lineman Isaac Bowman, senior defensive lineman Cole Beyeler and junior linebacker Paul Forney. The Emory& Henry offense saw four players on the third team led by junior running back Joe Vaughn, who had 617…

Dave Heineman today announced his appointment of James Stecker of Columbus to the District Court, 5th Judicial District. Additionally, his practice includes appellate work in the Nebraska Court of Appeals, the Nebraska Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The 5th Judicial District…

Office Address: Department of the Air Force; Air Force Materiel Command; AFLCMC/HB- Hanscom; 11 Barksdale Ave Bldg 1614 Hanscom Air Force Base MA 01731. Description: Department of the Air Force. NOTICE OF CONTRACT ACTION- AFLCMC/HBAK intends to issue a sole-source contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. for Engineering Technical and Direct Mission Support services…

Office Address: Department of Homeland Security; United States Coast Guard; USCG Surface Forces Logistics Center; 2401 Hawkins Point RoadBuilding 31, Mail Stop 26 Baltimore MD 21226-5000. Contact: Timothy M. Shuhart, Phone 7576284602, Fax 7576284628, Email [email protected] Shavonda Jamison, Contracting Officer, Phone 757 441-7036, Fax 757…

Office Address: Department of Transportation; Federal Aviation Administration; Eastern Region; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, ASO-52 EN- Eastern Service Area. The FAA is seeking competent and qualified contractors to provide labor, equipment, tools and supplies and material to replace a raised flooring system and construct two accessible ramps with…

Nov. 27– A Watertown man was sentenced Tuesday in Jefferson County Court to 3 1/ 2 years in state prison for possessing heroin in February. Mr. Clark was sentenced as a second felony offender, having been sentenced in County Court in June 2011 to three years in prison for third-degree attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance, having admitted he tried to sell…

PASAY CITY, Philippines, Nov. 26– The Philippines Senate issued the following transcript:. Mya tradisyon namang sinusunod ang senado, gayundin ang Kongreso kaugnay nang pag-approve tulad nyan lalong-lalo na kung hinahabol na maaprubahan ang budget, partikular para makapag-allocate ng pondo sa mga tinamaan ng ilang mga kalamidad na tumama sa ating bansa, sa…

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 27– Raytheon, Waltham, Mass., has been assigned a patent developed by Kenric P. Nelson, Hollis, N.H., Brian J. Scannell, Cambridge, Mass., and Herbert Landau, Alexandria, Va., for the “risk management for object identification.” The patent application was filed on March 8, 2011. Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 27– Progressive Casualty Insurance, Mayfield Village, Ohio, has been assigned a patent developed by six co-inventors for a “monitoring system for determining and communicating a cost of insurance.” The co-inventors are Alan Rex Bauer, Mill Valley, Calif., Kurtis Tavis Burns, Lakewood, Ohio, Michael Vincent Esposito, Aurora, Ohio, Patrick Lawrence…

Nov. 27– A man targeted in an armed-robbery attempt in Beaufort that left a Marine dead was charged with two marijuana offenses Tuesday, but not with shooting the Marine, a Beaufort Police Department spokesman said. Jerrit Timberson and Kelsey Dent, who were stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, attempted to rob Beaufort resident Karl Brather Lyttle,…

Nov. 27– PORT LAVACA– After a few minutes of discussion, the Calhoun County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to release a settlement agreement that ended its three-year federal employment discrimination case. But officials say the document, which the attorney general’s office ruled was public Nov. 8, won’t be available for a few weeks because the insurance…