WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 17, 2023: The Attorneys General of Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Washington and West Virginia today joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed by the Justice Department's Antitrust Division along with the Attorneys General of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia, against Google for monopolizing m  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 19 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's largest research vessel, the Lake Guardian, has begun its annual spring sampling survey of water quality and biological life in the Great Lakes. This year marks the 40th anniversary of EPA's spring and summer water quality surveys in the Great Lakes. In 1983, EPA started annual sampling in Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie; Lakes Ontario and Superior were ad  more

DETROIT, Michigan, April 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to a wire fraud scheme in which he stole $297,000 of pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits from the State of Michigan, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. Joining in the announcement were Irene Lindow, Special Agent-in-Charge, Chicago Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector  more

DETROIT, Michigan, April 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on April 18, 2023: A former police lieutenant in charge of the Detroit Police Department's Integrity Unit was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for accepting bribes in a conspiracy with another Detroit police officer in connection with corruption in the towing industry in Detroit, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today. Ison was joined in the anno  more

DETROIT, Michigan, April 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on April 19, 2023: United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison, along with Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney Kym Worthy, Kenyatta Stephens, CEO Black Family Development, Detroit Police Chief James E. White, Alvin Stokes, Citywide President, Detroit Citywide Police Community Relations Council, Heidi E. Washington, Director of the Michigan Depar  more

DETROIT, Michigan, April 18 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on April 17, 2023: A West Bloomfield physician pleaded guilty today to illegally distributing over 7,000 oxycodone pills, a Schedule II prescription drug-controlled substance, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. Ison was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Orville Greene, Drug Enforcement Administration, Detroit Field Division. Sco  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 21 -- 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 1.035 billion pounds of milk during March, up 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo D. Johnson, Regional Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,380 pounds for March, 25 pounds above March 2022. The dairy herd wa  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, April 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Potato stocks in Michigan on April 1, 2023, were estimated at 3.7 million hundredweight (cwt), down 8 percent from last year's 4.0 million cwt. April's stocks represent 22 percent of the total production. Stocks include potatoes stored by both processors and growers. Nationally, potatoes held in storage on April  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, April 21 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Will Thompson, issued the following news release on April 20, 2023: Michael Henderson, 34, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 15 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on March 3, 2022, law enforcement   more