CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 24, 2021, entitled "Women's Earnings In Michigan -- 2019": In 2019, Michigan women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $803, or 79.5 percent of the $1,010 median usual weekly earnings for their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason P  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration issued the following news release: Under terms of a consent order and judgement entered in federal court, the fiduciaries of Deliver Dental Solutions Inc. 401(k) Plan and Trust have agreed to restore $42,488 to the Detroit-based employee benefit plan. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration found fiduciaries - Robert J. Kamphuis Jr. and Tho  more

BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: Early in pandemic, Defense Logistics Agency employees facilitated the transfer of Tyvek protective suits from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A key contributor to that effort was Fort Meade, Maryland-based Property Disposal Specialist Angela M. Sakryd, who has spent a dozen years with DLA Disposition Services, including deployme  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The preliminary farm value of Michigan field crops produced in 2020 was $3.62 billion, up 47 percent from 2019. Higher prices and production across most commodities resulted in greater total value of production in 2020, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Some Michi  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Dairy herds in Michigan produced 1.016 billion pounds of milk during January, up 4.3 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. January milk production in Michigan was a new record and was the first time that dairy herds in Michigan produced m  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The number of farms in Michigan in 2020 was 46,500, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Land in farms was 9.8 million acres, unchanged from last year. The average size farm in Michigan was 211 acres per farm, up 2 acres from 2019. The number of farms in the United   more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: The value of all trout sold and distributed in Michigan was $6,285,000 in 2020, according to the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Region. This is up 8.7 percent from last year. Information by sales category was only published for 6 to 12 inches to avoid disclosing data for individual operations. Losses of trout intended   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following trading suspension order on Feb. 22, 2021: The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, of trading in the securities of Bangi, Inc. (BNGI) (CIK No. 0001327238), a defaulted Nevada corporation based in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan at 9:30 a.m. EST on February 23, 2021 and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EST on March 8, 2021.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program issued the following news release on Feb. 23, 2021: The owner of a Southeast Michigan asbestos abatement company that did subcontracted work for the Detroit Land Bank Authority is facing multiple felony charges for misrepresenting project costs to avoid paying more money to the state, bribing a contractor to secure work for his company and violating state la  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Feb. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is launching recruitment efforts nationwide to fill over 6,000 Transportation Security Officer (TSO) positions by summer 2021. Locally, TSA is looking to fill positions at Gerald R. Ford International Airport. "TSOs are a critical first line defense in securing our nation's commercial air transpo  more