WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release on March 11: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Marine Corps Sgt. Duane O. Cole, 23, of Niles, Michigan, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 3, 2019. In November 1943, Cole was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on th  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 12 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: * * * - Employer Pays Long-Term Female Employee Less Than Two Men Who Have the Same Job, Federal Agency Charges * * * Covenant HealthCare, a non-profit health care system based in Saginaw, Mich., is violating federal law by paying a female employee a lower wage than two male co-workers who hold the same position, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a la  more

WASHINGTON, March 12 -- The White House issued the following news release: President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate: Hala Y. Jarbou of Michigan, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. Hala Jarbou currently serves as a Judge on Michigan's Sixth Judicial Circuit. Before taking the bench in 2015, Judge Jarbou served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Michi  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, March 11 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: The U.S. Small Business Administration announced that Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and private nonprofit organizations located in Michigan as a result of excessive rain from March 9, 2019 through Nov. 4, 2019. The loans are available in the following counti  more