WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from the Economics Daily: From November 2021 to November 2022, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 44 states and was essentially unchanged in 6 states and the District of Columbia. The largest percentage increase occurred in Texas (5.1 percent), followed by Florida (4.7 percent) and Hawaii, North Carolina, and Oregon (4.3 percent each). The largest job increases occurred in Califo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (TNSper) -- The FBI issued the following news release: Director Christopher Wray has named David Sundberg as the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office (WFO). Mr. Sundberg most recently served as the special agent in charge of the New Haven Field Office in Connecticut. Mr. Sundberg joined the FBI in 2002 as a special agent. He was first assigned to the Portland Field Office in Oregon, where he worked on Eurasian organized crime and drug matters and othe  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 29 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has completed its review of a petition to list the Columbia Oregonian under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Columbia Oregonian is a small terrestrial gastropod (snail) associated with riparian habitat that is found along the moist edges of seeps, springs, and streams. Based on this review, the Service finds that t  more