CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 17, 2024, entitled "Average Energy Prices, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington - August 2024": * * * Gasoline prices averaged $3.407 a gallon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area in August 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that area gasoline prices were d  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2024: * * * Recipients of the 2024 U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program are each awarded $550,000 a year for five years to help them answer complex questions. * * * Four researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have been named recipients of Early Career Research Program awards from the  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois issued the following news release: The owners of a suburban Chicago youth counseling center have been sentenced to federal prison terms for bilking Illinois Medicaid out of approximately $2.5 million through a fraudulent billing scheme. From 2011 to 2018, SUMMER MATHESON and TERRENCE EWING, co-managers of Laynie Foundation Inc., along with foundation employee RICHARD GRUNDY, fraudulently billed  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walgreen Co. (together, Walgreens) have agreed to pay $106.8 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and state statutes for billing government health care programs for prescriptions never dispensed. Walgreens, headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, operates one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the country. The government alleges that, between   more