NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Nov. 4, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the Boston Metropolitan Area - September 2024": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 1.7 percent in the Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended September 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assist  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Nov. 4, 2024, entitled "Changing Compensation Costs in the New York Metropolitan Area - September 2024": * * * Compensation costs for private industry workers increased 3.0 percent in the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) for the year ended September 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commis  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: * * * Investigations find Long Island employers shortchanged workers * * * NEW YORK - The U.S. Department of Labor recovered a total of $877,834 in back wages and fringe benefits from three Long Island contractors for 36 employees who were underpaid for their work on two New York projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The New York City Department o  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- 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 RONALD BAUER pled guilty to conspiring to commit securities fraud in connection with his role in a long-running "pump-and-dump" stock manipulation scheme. BAUER pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 20, 2025.   more

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 -- 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 TROY CARUSO, the owner and chief executive officer of a commercial construction and contracting company headquartered in New York, New York (the "Contracting Company"), and JOHN NOLAN, a senior executive at the Contracting Company, pled guilty Friday, November 1, 2024, to con  more

ALBANY, New York, Nov. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release: Willie Mills, age 31, of Schenectady, New York, was ordered detained last week following his indictment and arrest for possession of a firearm as a prohibited person and distribution of cocaine and fentanyl. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Bryan Miller, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, a  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: Breon Peace, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Anne Millgram, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced today that the online mental healthcare company Cerebral, Inc. (Cerebral) has entered into a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Nov. 4 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release: A 49-count superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn that includes new charges relating to murders allegedly ordered and committed by national leaders, members and associates of the violent transnational criminal organization La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. To date, multiple MS-13 members and associates have been charged in   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following statement on Nov. 3, 2024, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken on Micronesia National Day: * * * On behalf of the Government of the United States, I offer my heartfelt congratulations to the people of the Federated States of Micronesia as you celebrate your 38th Independence Day. This occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the enduring partnership that our nations have fostered over the years. The United States holds dear  more