NEW YORK, Jan. 26 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued a report on Jan. 25, 2023, entitled "Average Energy Prices, New York-Newark-Jersey City - December 2022": Gasoline prices averaged $3.600 a gallon in the New York-Newark-Jersey City area in December 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that area gasoline prices were similar to last Dece  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2023: A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 80 months in prison on two felony charges for assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His co-defendant, a West Virginia man, was sentenced to time served with conditions. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S.  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: The Justice Department, along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia, filed a civil antitrust suit against Google for monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the complaint alleg  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:18-cv-05075; E.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 7, 2018) involving Laura, et al.: * * * On January 24, 2023, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York entered a final consent judgment against New Jersey resident Walter Gil de Rubio for his role in a scheme that defrauded approximately 80 investors of over $3.7 million between June 2013 and January 2017. In 2018, the SEC c  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2023: A Somerset County, New Jersey man yesterday admitted to paying kickbacks in return for fraudulent overtime payments that he received in connection with his former role as the Director of Buildings and Grounds for the Hillsborough Township School District, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. Anthony DeLuca, 61, of Raritan, New   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Jan. 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release on Jan. 24, 2023: A Sussex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for concealing her attempts to provide material support to Syrian foreign terrorist organizations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division, FBI-Newark Special Agent   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Philip R. Sellinger, issued the following news release: An Indiana man and an Arizona man yesterday admitted their roles in a health care fraud conspiracy in which they received payment for doctors' orders for durable medical equipment (DME), namely orthotic braces, and genetic test referrals, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Scott Wohrman, 50, of Florence, Arizona, pleaded guilty by videoconference be  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Jan. 24 (TNSawa) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news on Jan. 23, 2023: Former NOAA scientist Kirk Bryan Jr., Ph.D, has been named winner of the 2023 National Academy of Science's (NAS) Alexander Agassiz Medal for his pioneering work in oceanography and climate science. Bryan is widely recognized as the founder of numerical ocean modeling, and his work in the late 1960s at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)   more

NEW YORK, Jan. 24 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New York District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York District, in partnership with non-federal sponsors, seeks public comment for the New York & New Jersey Harbors and Tributaries Study (NY&NJHATS). In cooperation with our partners, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the New York Department of State and the New  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on Jan. 26, 2023: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million grant to the city of North Wildwood, New Jersey, for reconstruction of three blocks of boardwalk space. This project will support boardwalk structural repairs, including timber replacement, electrical upgrades a  more