WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document on March 28, 2024, from Economics Daily: * * * In January 2024, there were a total of 6,124,000 unemployed people and 8,863,000 job openings in the United States, yielding a ratio of 0.7 unemployed person per job opening. The national job openings rate was 5.3 percent. Maryland and North Dakota were among the states with the lowest numbers of unemployed people per job openin  more

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today the availability and individual state allocations of approximately $811 million in funding to states, territories, and native entities to empower individuals and communities with the tools, skills, and opportunities to  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 30 -- West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: State Treasurer Riley Moore today announced the Treasurer's Office's Unclaimed Property Division has now returned more than $300 million to rightful owners since the program began in 1967, with the rate of return growing rapidly in recent years. "We've been telling people we've been returning unclaimed property at the fastest pace in state history, and this mile  more

ELKINS, West Virginia, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Daniela Marie Giancoli, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, has admitted to supplying fentanyl to dealers in West Virginia. Giancoli pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, Giancoli supplied large amounts of fentanyl to dealers in Grant County and elsewhere. Nearly 9,000 fent  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 29 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding its "proposed rule revising the regulations for registered apprenticeships." The letter, which the State of Tennessee led, notes the coalition's nationwide concerns over race-based regulations for apprenticeships. According to the attorneys general, "the proposed rule deviates from the statutory purpose  more

BECKLEY, West Virginia, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Harland Lee Todd, 34, of Mount Hope, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 2, 2022, law enforcement officers executed a search wa  more

WHEELING, West Virginia, March 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 29, 2024: Five federal search warrants were executed this morning and one person was arrested as part of an ongoing federal drug trafficking investigation. United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced that search warrants were served early today upon three residences in Wheeling, West Virginia, and two residences in Bellaire, Ohio, wit  more