BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services recently announced it will shutter most of its property disposal field offices by the end of fiscal 2022. Despite widespread small site closures, support services will continue unabated, and an overall reduction of customer wait time is expected. Many DLA Disposition Services field activities will enjoy capability increases as 60  more

DETROIT, Michigan, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Detroit Field Office issued the following news release: Special Agent in Charge Timothy Waters is pleased to announce the Michigan Muslim Community Council as the FBI Detroit's Community Leadership Award recipient for 2020. Annually, since 1990, each FBI field office presents the Director's Community Leadership Award to an individual or organization in recognition of their extraordinary contribution  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation (Detroit) Field Office issued the following news release: Special Agent in Charge Timothy Waters is pleased to announce the Michigan Muslim Community Council as the FBI Detroit's Community Leadership Award recipient for 2020. Annually, since 1990, each FBI field office presents the Director's Community Leadership Award to an individual or organization in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release on April 29, 2021: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division announced today that $3,355,416 in federal funding has been made available to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for costs related to the state's  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan cattle and calves cash receipts totaled $500.7 million in 2020, down 6 percent from 2019, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Cattle and calf marketings totaled 508.1 million pounds, down 1 percent from 2019. Michigan hog cash receipts totaled $349.9 million  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: The incorrect installation of a single set screw led to the loss of propulsion control on the Canadian-flagged, 736-foot-long Atlantic Huron, causing the ship to strike a pier at 6.8 knots, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. Marine Accident Brief 21/10 is the NTSB report on the July 5, 2020, contact between the self-unloading bulk carrier and a pier associated with the Soo Lo  more

BREMERTON, Washington, April 27 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Vice Adm. William J. Galinis, commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, visited Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility, April 23, 2021, to tour PSNS & IMF facilities, learn about the status of various maintenance availabilities, and to discuss process improvement and transformation efforts. Galinis addressed PSNS & IMF leadership and then received a major project summary before Capt.  more

ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 30 -- The National Institutes of Health's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child's Health and Human Development issued the following news release: NICHD-funded researchers at the University of Michigan are offering early access to new data from the Child Development Supplement (CDS) of the Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID), the longest running household study in the world. These preliminary data provide caregiver-reported information on how children an  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, April 28 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following feature story: In 2016, NOAA and partners completed a project to restore fast-flowing rapids on the St. Marys River in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The work has helped increase the number of juvenile fish in the area, according to a recent study published in the journal Restoration Ecology: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.13310?casa_token=zbOPMjPwAdMAAAAA%3AcEcPljV2_  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 29, 2021: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million grant to the city of Hancock, Michigan, to provide flood resilient infrastructure for a new a business and technology park that will house technology and technology-driven light manufacturing businesses. This E  more