BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: A federal court in Boston entered a consent judgment in May of 2023, ordering two Middlesex County employment staffing agencies and their owners to pay a total of $256,992 in back wages and liquidated damages to 238 current and former employees who were placed with businesses in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The U.S. Department of Labor obtained the judgment foll  more

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, March 13 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on March 11, 2024, at a campaign event at the Manchester Field Office: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, personally, thank you. Thank you. And you -- you got a good little training with a, you know, United States senator. (Laughter.) Hey, folks, thanks an awful lot. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Look, it stunned me, the write-in campaign you all did. No, it really did. I was very careful   more

GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire, March 12 (TNSres) -- President Biden issued the following remarks on March 11, 2024, at an event at the YMCA Allard Center on lowering healthcare costs for American families: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) Good to see you all. Good to see you all. Thank you. By the way, Bowdoin College -- good college. I've spoken there. Thanks, Rose. Thanks for that introduction. And please have a seat -- take a seat, if you have one. Because I said that o  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. Richard G. Hammond, 24, of Northwood, New Hampshire, killed during World War II, was accounted for Sep 5, 2023. In Feb 1943, Hammond was assigned to Company A, 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, in the North African Theater during World War II as a crew commander of an M3 Gun Motor Carriage "h  more

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, March 12 (TNSres) The White House issued the following transcript of a press gaggle on March 11, 2024 with Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton while en route to Manchester, New Hampshire: * * * MS. DALTON: Hey, good afternoon. You're going to need to bear with me because we do have a couple of things at the top today. Good morning. I have a few items here. As the President says, a budget is a statement of values. And his budget released today makes a few of h  more