KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Nov. 13, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Midwest Region - October 2024": * * * Area prices fell 0.1 percent in October, up 2.6 percent over the year * * * Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were down 0.1 percent in October, the U.S. Bureau of L  more

BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 14 -- Idaho Attorney General Raul R. Labrador issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador filed a friend-of-the-court brief today with the U.S. Supreme Court, along with 17 other states, to protect students' First Amendment free speech rights in the case of L.M. v. Town of Middleborough. A middle school student in Massachusetts wore a t-shirt to school that had the message, "There are only two genders." School officials told the s  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 14 -- Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird today led a 23-state coalition in demanding that Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis immediately end their political prosecutions of President Donald Trump. The prosecutions, which never should have been brought against President Trump at all, now threaten a Constitut  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Nov. 14 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on Nov. 13, 2024: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill today joined a 23-state coalition in demanding that Special Counsel Jack Smith, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis immediately end their political prosecutions of President Donald Trump. The prosecutions, which never should have been brought against President Trump at all, now threaten   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 14 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Nov. 13, 2024: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes co-led a coalition of 19 states with the Arizona Corporation Commission in filing a Motion to Intervene and Protest in BlackRock, Inc.'s latest attempt to obtain an unlawful blanket authorization to own utilities from the U.S. Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC). Over the past decade, BlackRock has been granted blanket authorizations and reauthorizati  more