DALLAS, Texas, April 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 27, 2023, entitled "Louisiana Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2023": * * * Louisiana had 158,000 job openings in February 2023, compared to 172,000 openings in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that the jo  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 25 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 24, 2023, entitled "Women's Earnings in Louisiana - 2021": * * * In 2021, Louisiana women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $783, or 78.1 percent of the $1,002 median usual weekly earnings of their male counterparts, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Com  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 29 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-New Orleans District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, recently awarded a contract for constructing the third levee reach on the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain (WSLP) Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction project. This contract will construct approximately 1.8 miles of the 17.5-mile-long levee system that will provide 100-year level risk reduction to the area primaril  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 29 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on April 28, 2023: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened public comment on a proposal to grant the State of Louisiana's request for primary responsibility - or primacy - of Class VI wells under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program, which regulates the injection of carbon dioxide (CO2) into deep rock formation. Class VI injection wells--when used as a part of carbon capture  more

DALLAS, Texas, April 25 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a settlement with Evonik Corporation that will reduce emissions of ethylene oxide and other hazardous air pollutants by 5.6 tons per year from a facility in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. The alleged violations were found as a result of a special monitoring and enforcement effort by officials from EPA and the Louisi  more

BARKSDALE AFB, Louisiana, April 26 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news: By Justin Oakes, 8th Air Force/J-GSOC Public Affairs There was no shortage of bombers in the sky last week as Air Force Global Strike Command forces were in full effect, exercising their global reach and mass generation capabilities during U.S. Strategic Command's Global Thunder exercise. However, "bombers don't simply manifest themselves and come equipped with the appropriate weaponry to  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 25 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New Orleans arrested 12 unlawfully present individuals in a weeklong operation that focused efforts against current threats to local public safety. The efforts targeted noncitizens who have public safety arrests or convictions with   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release on April 26, 2023: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that a federal jury has convicted GLENN E. DIAZ, age 72, of Arabi; PETER J. "PETE" JENEVEIN, age 58, of Panama City, Florida; and MARK S. GRELLE, age 69, of Chalmette, of federal bank fraud and money laundering charges related to defrauding First NBC Bank ("Bank"), the New Orleans-based bank that   more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release on April 27, 2023: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEVONTE SMITH, age 22, of New Orleans, pled guilty to seven counts of an eight-count indictment, that charged him with multiple federal firearms and drug trafficking violations stemming from a March 30, 2022 shootout, on the corner of Orleans and Rocheblave Street that was captured on NOPD cr  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release: OLIVER PIERRE, age 40, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to time served, followed by three years of supervised release and a $100.00 mandatory special assessment fee after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base ("crack"), in violation of Title 21, United Sta  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 27 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Duane A. Evans, issued the following news release: DARON WILLIAMS, age 47, and JOSHUA MACKEY, age 37, residents of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty on April 24, 2023, before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. WILLIAMS pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Cod  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56484) involving Louisiana Energy Services, Eunice, New Mexico: * * * Facility: Louisiana Energy Services Comments: Uranium Enrichment Facility Gas Centrifuge Facility Region: 2 City: Eunice State: NM County: Lea License #: SNM-2010 Docket: 70-3103 NRC Notified By: Jim Rickman HQ OPS Officer: Bill Gott Notification Date: 04/21/2023 Notification Time: 16:24 [ET] Event Date: 04/21/  more

BARKSDALE AFB, Louisiana, April 26 -- The U.S. Strategic Command issued the following news: By Justin Oakes, 8th Air Force/J-GSOC Public Affairs There was no shortage of bombers in the sky last week as Air Force Global Strike Command forces were in full effect, exercising their global reach and mass generation capabilities during U.S. Strategic Command's Global Thunder exercise. However, "bombers don't simply manifest themselves and come equipped with the appropriate weaponry to address any i  more