WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Robert C. Grant, Captain (U.S. Coast Guard ret.) & Frank Joseph DeVita, Gunner's Mate 3rd Class (USCGR, 1943-1946) The Long Blue Line blog series has been publishing Coast Guard history essays for over 15 years. To access hundreds of these service stories, visit the Coast Guard Historian's Office's Long Blue Line online archives, located here: THE LONG BLUE LINE (uscg.mil) On the 70th anni  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Funding Advances Biden-Harris Administration's National Climate Resilience Framework Today, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced the third round of Swift Current funding, making $300 million available through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to help National Flood Insurance Program policyholders across the nation become more resilient to  more

NEW YORK, May 31 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on May 29, 2024, entitled "New York Area Employment - April 2024": * * * Total nonfarm employment for the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, metropolitan area increased by 155,200 over the year in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the local rate of  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, May 31 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Susan Moriarty, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Public Affairs Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst welcomed Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David A. Flosi when he visited the installation, May 23. During the visit, total force Airmen briefed Flosi and explained how the joint base is preparing Airmen for Great Power Competition, from mission generation to mission completion. Airmen from th  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news on May 29, 2024: As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $12.1 million to three states and 14 local governments for the next round of formula grants through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. These projects, funded by President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will help advance state and local governments' effo  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on airline operational data compiled for the month of March 2024 for on-time performance, mishandled baggage, mishandled wheelchairs and scooters, and 1st quarter oversales. The ATCR is designed to assist consumers with information on the quality of servi  more

NEW YORK, May 31 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: * * * Announcement is part of Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America Agenda * * * Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selections to receive rebates under the 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, including rebates to benefits kids in New Jersey. Eleven school districts in New Jersey will benefit from a total of over $12 million in r  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the following news release on May 28, 2024: * * * Up 1.1 Percent from the Fourth Quarter of 2023 * * * U.S. house prices rose 6.6 percent between the first quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (FHFA HPI(R)). House prices were up 1.1 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. FHFA's seasonally adjusted monthly index for March was up 0.1 percen  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued the following news release on May 29, 2024: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared New Jersey-based trucking company 1 Noor Trucking, Inc., USDOT No. 3724751, to be an imminent hazard to public safety and ordered the carrier to immediately cease all interstate and intrastate operations. 1 Noor Trucking, Inc. was served  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York issued the following Beige Book on May 29, 2024: * * * Summary of Economic Activity On balance, economic activity in the Second District grew slightly in the latest reporting period. The labor market remained solid, with ongoing slight employment gains and moderate wage growth. Still, labor demand and labor supply continued to come into better balance. Selling price increases remained modest. Manufacturing activity declined m  more

MIAMI, Florida, May 31 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Markenzy Lapointe, issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: A Florida man was sentenced yesterday to 96 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Raag Singhal, after admitting his role in a multimillion-dollar durable medical equipment (DME) kickback scheme and pleading guilty to carrying out a COVID-19 fraud scheme and being a felon in possessi  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A former investment banker, who was formerly a registered broker with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, was sentenced today to three years and five months in prison for a fraud scheme that resulted in approximately $1.5 million in investor losses and for a separate access device fraud scheme. According to court documents, from November 2020 to August 2022, Rashawn Russell, 28, of Brooklyn, New Yo  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following weekly report entitled "Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims" for week ending May 30, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending May 25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 219,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 215,000 to 216,000. The 4-week moving average was 222,500,   more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: A former branch manager of a national financial institution today admitted using his position to organize a conspiracy to help individuals obtain at least 38 fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans totaling approximately $5 million, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today. U.S. Attorney Sellinger also announced that a New York man a  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for illegally possessing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine for distribution and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Taurean Gordon, 40, of Irvington, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty be  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: A Trenton man was sentenced today to 192 months in prison for committing a series of carjackings, armed robberies, and firearms offenses, U.S. Philip R. Sellinger announced. Joshua M. Perez, 25, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner to a five-count Superseding Information, charging him with two counts of carjacking, on  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey issued the following news release: Twenty-four people have been charged for their respective roles in gang-related offenses, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud; conspiracy to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine; Hobbs Act robbery; and use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. The defendants are scheduled to appear this afternoo  more

NEW YORK, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SHUKHRATJON MIRSAIDOV pled guilty to participating in a money laundering conspiracy from June 2019 to February 2022, while MIRSAIDOV was a senior executive for an international airline ("Airline-1") with a hub at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. MIRSAIDOV pl  more

NEW YORK, May 31 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JESUS CABRERA, a/k/a "Gee," and MICHAEL AMAYA, a/k/a "Miz," pled guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogue, and CABRERA also pled guilty to a related firearm count. As part of the conspiracy, CABRERA and AMAYA distributed the f  more