PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - January 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.6 percent over the past month, up 2.5 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were up 0.6 percent in January, th  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Chicago Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 4.1 percent in the Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.8 percent in the Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 14 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Feb. 9, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Minneapolis Metropolitan Area - December 2023": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.6 percent in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported tod  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that WINIFER ACOSTA JIMINEZ, 29, and OVIDALIS JIMINEZ PUJOLS, 38, both of New York, have been charged by indictment with a fentanyl trafficking offense.   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested an unlawfully present Brazilian national charged with six counts of assault and battery with a firearm in Massachusetts and one count of a similar charge in Connecticut. Deportation officers from ERO Boston made the apprehension Feb. 8 in Clinton. "This Brazilian national has allegedly display  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 14 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is voicing support for the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees. Drummond and a bipartisan coalition of 18 other state attorneys general recently filed a comment letter in response to an FTC notice of proposed rulemaking, which allowed for comments on the proposed rule's provisions, including:   more

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Feb. 14 -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry issued the following news: Attorney General Michelle Henry joined a bipartisan coalition of 41 Attorneys General in urging the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to authorize much-needed 2024 bridge funding for the federal Crime Victims Fund (the "VOCA Fund"), which provides crime victims a network of care and resources. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime, funding for   more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Feb. 14 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2024: The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture, and most private nonprofit organizations that March 11 is the filing deadline for federal working capital loans in Massachusetts due to freeze occurring May 17-18, 2023. Low-interest disaster loans are available in the primary counti  more