TYNDALL AFB, Florida, March 19 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Fielding of additional Air Force medical personnel to support COVID-19 response operations in Michigan has kept First Air Force's 64th Air Expeditionary Group busy tracking Airmen set to join the multi-service effort. "Our efforts are focused on ensuring our Airmen are able to swiftly and safely support FEMA's COVID-19 vaccination mission requirements," said Lt. Gen. Kirk Pierce, commander of Continental U.S. NORAD  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 19 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Saima Mohsin, issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: An Oakland County Cardiologist, Dinesh M. Shah, M.D. and his practice, Michigan Physicians Group, P.C. (MPG) have paid the United States $2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing federal healthcare programs for diagnostic testing that was either unnecessary or not performed. MPG is a   more

ABINGDON, Virginia, March 17 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, Daniel P. Bubar, issued the following news release on March 16, 2021: Brett Becker, the owner of Accelerated Genetix, LLC, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Abingdon to six months home confinement for introducing unapproved new drugs into interstate commerce, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced today. Becker, 32, currently of Concord, Michigan, and Accelerated Gene  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 17, 2021, entitled "Fatal Work Injuries in Michigan - 2019": Fatal work injuries totaled 164 in 2019 for Michigan, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the number of work-related fatalities in Michigan was up from the previous year. (See chart 1.) Fatal occupational injurie  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, March 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Andrew Birge, issued the following news release on March 18, 2021: U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Douglas Arvin Horning, 55, of Cadillac, pled guilty to tax evasion before the Honorable Ray Kent, United States Magistrate Judge. Horning faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced by the Honorable Paul L. Maloney, United States District Judge, later this year. According to the p  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- 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 920 million pounds of milk during February, up 0.2 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,090 pounds for February, 60 pounds below February 2020. The dairy herd wa  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan honey production for 2020 totaled 4.47 million pounds, down 5 percent from 2019. This estimate included honey from producers with 5 or more colonies. Nationally, Michigan ranked eighth in honey production in 2020. Yields from Michigan's 95,000 honey producing colonies averaged 47 pounds in 2020, down 3 f  more

BREMERTON, Washington, March 16 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: USS Michigan (SSBN 727) undocked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility March 16, 2021, after more than a year and a half in Dry Dock 2, as it nears the end of its Extended Refit Period. According to Melissa Kittrell, assistant project superintendent, Code 327, Operations Department Submarine Program, PSNS & IMF mechanics got to work on Michigan as soon as it was nested on Pie  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 19 -- The U.S. Air Force (88th Air Base Wing) issued the following news: At the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the 88th Air Base Wing will deploy approximately 120 Airmen to Michigan to support a state-run, federally supported Community Vaccination Center at the Ford Field in Detroit. The Airmen are assigned to the 88th Medical Group. "The 88th Air Base Wing is proud to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 to protect our fellow Americ  more