WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: The Department of Defense has released the 2024 Basic Allowance for Housing rates. Basic Allowance for Housing rates will increase an average of 5.4 percent when the new rates take effect on Jan. 1, 2024. While average BAH rates increased, different rental markets experienced different market trends, and the 2024 BAH rates reflect those geographic market condition differences. The Department c  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General's Office of Investigations issued the following investigation report: * * * On October 22, 2023, Joseph Emerson, an off-duty commercial pilot, was arrested after attempting to shut down the engines of an in-flight passenger plane. According to court documents, Port of Portland police officers responded to a report of inbound aircraft that had diverted from its route between Everett, Washington, and San Francisco to   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the following statement on Jan. 5, 2024, by Commissioner Mark C. Christie on an order (Docket No. EC16-77-003) involving BlackRock Inc.: * * * I concur with this rejection of the December 6, 2023 motion filed by the Attorneys General for the states of Utah, Indiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, T  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Jan. 5, 2024: A Minnesota man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return. According to court documents and statements made in court, from 2012 to 2018, Beau Wesley Gensmer, of Prior Lake, devised a scheme to assist in the preparation of at least 50 false tax returns that claimed fraudulently inflated tax refunds on behalf of unwitting taxpayer clients.  more