CHICAGO, Illinois, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release: A former paralegal for a Chicago law firm has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling more than $600,000 from bankruptcy estate accounts. BECKY LOUISE SUTTON fraudulently embezzled the funds from 2009 to 2018 while working on bankruptcy matters for the law firm. Sutton embezzled money from more than 40 bankruptcy estate accounts and several  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release: A man has been sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison for violently carjacking two vehicles in Chicago. KASHIF DUKES, 29, of Chicago, took the vehicles at gunpoint in 2017 and 2018. In the first carjacking, Dukes took a Mercedes-Benz sedan in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood on Sept. 10, 2017. Dukes pressed a gun to the driver's chest and said word  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 3, 2024, entitled "Chicago Area Employment - February 2024": * * * Total nonfarm employment for the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI, metropolitan area stood at 4,704,800 in February 2024 compared to 4,694,100 a year ago, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner J  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: The Chief of Staff of the Army announces the following officer assignments: Maj. Gen. Kimberly M. Colloton, deputy commanding general for Military and International Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C., to deputy chief of engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army; and deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. Maj. Gen. Lance G. Curtis, dep  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 4 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: Attorney General Kwame Raoul presented the proposed budget for the Attorney General's office for the next fiscal year to lawmakers today in Springfield. Raoul announced to a legislative committee that his office generated more than $1 billion in revenue on behalf of the state in 2023. The revenue the Attorney General's office collected for the state shows that for every do  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 4 -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following financial audit on April 3, 2024, involving Regional Office of Education No. 3 covering Bond, Christian, Effingham, Fayette, and Montgomery counties. Here are excerpts: * * * FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS MISREPORTING OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE During review of the Regional Office of Education #3's (ROE) financial information, it was noted that the 1% administrative fee retained by the ROE was acc  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 4 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today led a coalition of six attorneys general in filing a Supreme Court amicus brief supporting the respondents in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. The brief argues that the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits punishing people for sleeping on public property when they have no other place to lawfully sle  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, April 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on April 3, 2024: * * * Using advanced research to establish a resilient and innovative economy for the future * * * Using cutting-edge scientific research to realize a cleaner and more resilient Michigan economy is the aim of a newly formed partnership between the state and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. "Today's MOU will h  more