NEW YORK, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 10, 2021, entitled "Consumer Price Index, New York-Newark-Jersey City - January 2021": Prices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), rose 0.4 percent in January, following a 0.4-percent increase in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Group participated in a Joint Readiness Training Center exercise Jan. 31-Feb. 9 at Alexandria International Airport, Louisiana, and a nearby landing zone. The exercise enabled skills proficiency training for more than 100 Airmen while facilitating critical upgrade training for nearly two dozen Airmen. The exercise came at a time   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Feb. 10 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2021: A Bergen County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for an elaborate bank frank scheme resulting in losses of more than $2 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced. Alexis Taylor, 32, of Hackensack, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez in Newark federal co  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Feb. 13 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Rachael A. Honig, issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2021: A Queens man has been charged with using hundreds of stolen and false identities to defraud a ride sharing business of over $500,000 in delivery driver referral benefits, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today. Hatem Ghouneim, 32, of Astoria, New York, was charged Feb. 11, 2021, by indictment with three counts of wire fraud  more

WEST TRENTON, New Jersey, Feb. 11 -- The Delaware River Basin Commission issued the following news release on Feb. 10, 2021: The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) today announced that New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy will kick off the Advisory Committee on Climate Change (ACCC) Forum on Climate Change and the Delaware River Basin with a prerecorded message on March 2, 2021. Gov. Murphy serves as a DRBC Commissioner and has been an active leader in the study and planning for dealing wit  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, issued the following news release on Feb. 11, 2021: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AMIT AGARWAL, the operator of an international wholesale consumer electronics business based in New Jersey, pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business that operated primarily between Colombia and  more