FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: FORT SNELLING, Minn. Army Reserve Ambassadors from across the 88th Readiness Division's 19-state area of operations met Sept. 14, 2024, at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in order to engage one another, share lessons learned over the last year, and discuss the way forward for the program. The Army Reserve Ambassador Program is one of the ways the 88th RD builds connections to our many c  more

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

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-1920) on Sept. 17, 2024, entitled "State Job Openings and Labor Turnover": * * * Job openings rates decreased in 4 states and increased in 1 state on the last business day of July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires rates increased in 4 states and decreased in 1 state. Total separations rates increased in 11 states and decreased in 1 state.   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: * * * Defendant Allegedly Led the Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera for Decades and Continued for Years Since El Chapo's Arrest * * * Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, 76, a citizen of Mexico, was arraigned this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on 17 counts related to drug trafficking, firearms offenses, and money laundering. This fifth superseding indictment relates to E  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

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Sept. 18 -- The Illinois National Guard issued the following news: Bloomington, Ill. - Sgt. 1st Class Melissa Brooker of Rockford retired from the Illinois Army National Guard after 28 years of service but told those at her Sept. 13 retirement ceremony in Bloomington that she was "not done being young." "The Army gave me the confidence to go into the unknown," said Brooker during the ceremony at the 44th Chemical Battalion's headquarters in Bloomington. "I hope I left a  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 18 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas issued the following news release: A 34-year-old former Houston resident has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani. From March 2020 until March 2021, Cora Chantail Custard conspired with others to submit false and fraudulent loan applications for financial assistance both personally and on behalf of others. The co-conspirators submitted false a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSRep) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report (No. 651) on August 12, 2024: Here are excerpts: * * * WHEAT: The outlook for 2024/25 U.S. wheat is for lower supplies, slightly higher domestic use, unchanged exports, and smaller ending stocks. Supplies are reduced on lower production, down 26 million bushels to 1,982 million, as reduced harvested area was only partly offset by a higher average yield  more