WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Attorney General issued the following news release on Dec. 23: Earlier today, Attorney General William P. Barr announced the results of Operation Legend, which was first launched in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 8, 2020, and then expanded to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, on July 22, 2020; to Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 29, 2020; to St. Louis, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee,   more

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: With few clues to go on, Defense Logistics Agency Logistics Operations employee Roger Klaren can help identify a World War II era plane and solve a mystery decades old. Klaren and his team have been called on hundreds of times by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to assist in identifying airplane parts from crash sites over 70 years old. If investigators can determine the  more

KALAMAZOO, Michigan, Dec. 22 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Kalamazoo River Natural Resource Trustee Council, and Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) announced entry of a consent decree on Dec. 2, that requires NCR Corp. to clean up and fund future response actions at a significant portion of the Allied Paper Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Dec. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, issued the following news release on Dec. 22: United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today that law enforcement in the United States has worked jointly in support of an international takedown of a virtual private network (VPN), dubbed "Operation Nova." Domain names offered by an organization engaged in "bulletproof hosting" that provided assistance to cyber-criminals were seized,  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan's total hog and pig inventory on December 1 was estimated at 1.3 million head, up 60,000 head from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Region. Breeding hog inventory, at 120,000 head, was unchanged from last December. Market hog inventory, at 1.18 milli  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Dec. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently released the 2019 Census of Horticultural Specialties report, the only source of detailed production and sales data for floriculture, nursery, and specialty crops for the entire United States. The data show that horticult  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service issued the following situation and outlook report (No. VGS-365) by Gary Lucier and Wilma Davis entitled "Vegetables and Pulses Outlook: December 2020". (Continued from Part 4 of 7) Dry Edible Beans Dry Bean Production Expected to Soar Across the U.S. The top dry bean producing U.S. States are North Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Nebraska, together representing 86 percent of U.S. dry bean production in 202  more