NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued a report on Sept. 20, 2023, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Boston-Cambridge-Newton - August 2023": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.867 a gallon in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton area in August 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that area gasoline prices were down 52 cents compared   more

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued a report on Sept. 22, 2023, entitled "Massachusetts Job Openings and Labor Turnover - July 2023": * * * Massachusetts had 242,000 job openings in July 2023, compared to 253,000 openings in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the job openings rate in Massachusetts   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: This summer, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff toured a national laboratory and six Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program sites in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. Under FUSRAP, USACE cleans up sites before transferring them to LM for long-term stewardship. On the trip, the interagency FUSRAP team met with regulators,   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 1:23-cv-08331; S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 20, 2023) involving Jonathan Becker: * * * On September 20, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against Jonathan Becker of Weehawken, New Jersey for trading on inside information unlawfully communicated to him by his then friend and roommate. According to the SEC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Ma  more

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Carla B. Freedman, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Juhi Khubani, age 48, of New Jersey, pled guilty today to conspiring to transport seven aliens. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Chief Patrol Agent Robert N. Garcia, United States Border Patrol, Swanton Sector, made the announcement. Khubani admitted that on June 3, 2023, she drove in an SUV to the U.S. side of the internati  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2023: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced that an Indictment was unsealed this morning charging U.S. Senator ROBERT MENENDEZ, his wife NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a "Nadine Arslan  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56739) involving Petnet, Hackensack, New Jersey: * * * Rep Org: NJ Rad Prot And Rel Prevention Pgm Licensee: PETNET Region: 1 City: Hackensack State: NJ License #: 459066 Agreement: Y NRC Notified By: Sarah Sanderlin HQ OPS Officer: Kerby Scales Notification Date: 09/15/2023 Notification Time: 11:50 [ET] Event Date: 09/15/2023 Event Time: 00:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 09/15/2023   more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: On September 21, 2023, U. S. Customs and Border Protection at the Port of New York/Newark seized seven outbound stolen vehicles bringing their total for fiscal year 2023 to 365 recovered stolen vehicles, one for each day of the fiscal year, and it isn't over yet. CBP has worked with Homeland Security Investigations - led Newark Auto Export Crimes Task Force  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The White House sent to the Senate on Sept. 18, 2023, the nominations of two individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * * Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, of Oregon, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon, vice Ann L. Aiken, retiring. * Jamel Semper, of New Jersey, to be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, vice John Michael Vazquez, resigned. * * * Original text here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/pres  more