CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Michigan, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: Brickworks Property Restoration - a masonry company based in Clinton Township, Michigan - will pay $130,788 in back wages to 58 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) found the employer violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime and recordkeeping provisions. WHD investigators determined Brickworks Property Restoration   more

CADILLAC, Michigan, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Huron-Manistee National Forests - issued the following news release: One of America's greatest conservation success stories continued this summer with the Huron-Manistee National Forests' 2019 Kirtland's warbler census. In June, Forest Service staff, partners and volunteers counted 1,023 singing male warblers in Michigan's Huron National Forest, marking the third consecutive census in which more than  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $75,000 cooperative agreement to the Lake Superior State University of Michigan for understanding fisheries ecology of St. Mary's River. The agency description of the grant states: "Notice of Intent to award a cooperative agreement to Lake Superior State University in support of a larger project which endeavors to understand fish production and habitat status and function in   more

DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, issued the following news release: City of Detroit Police Officer Michael Mosley, 47, of Detroit, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on two counts of bribery for taking $15,000 in cash bribes from a drug trafficker, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced. Schneider was joined in the announcement by Rainer S. Drolshagen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Fiel  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Dairy herds in Michigan produced 954 million pounds of milk during July, up 0.6 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. The daily rate per cow was 72.4 pounds, up 0.1 pound from July 2018. The dairy herd was estimated at 425,000 head for J  more

NEW BUFFALO, Michigan, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs issued the following news release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine T. Sullivan today addressed a gathering of more than 40 tribal leaders at a government-to-government consultation to discuss tribal victim assistance funding. The consultation was organized by OJP's Office for Victims of Crime and drew some 150 tribal, federal, state and local officials. The meeting was designed t  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development - Michigan office issued the following news release: Rural Business-Cooperative Service Administrator Bette Brand today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding grants for projects in all states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to reduce energy costs for farmers, ag producers and rural-based businesses and institutions. Lowering energy costs helps rural businesses improve th  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 19 -- The White House issued the following remarks by Vice President Mike Pence at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon at the Sound Board Theater: THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all. Thank you for that warm welcome. To Gerry Anderson, thank you for those kind words. And what a pleasure it is to be able to bring back home the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a son of Detroit, and a great, great champion for every American. (Applause.) Join me in thanking se  more