CHICAGO, Illinois, June 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 27, 2023, entitled "Michigan Job Openings and Labor Turnover - April 2023": * * * Michigan had 269,000 job openings in April 2023, compared to 254,000 openings in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the job openings rate in Michigan was 5.7 pe  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The Federal Communications Commission issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: The Federal Communications Commission today announced it is committing nearly $29 million in a new funding round through the Emergency Connectivity Fund Program, which provides digital tools and services to support students in communities across the country. Today's funding commitment supports applications from the third application window, benefitting approximately 65,000 students n  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A Michigan man was indicted for conspiring with others and allegedly defacing Temple Jacob - a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan. According to the court documents, Nathan Weeden, 23, of Houghton, and co-conspirators Richard Tobin, of New Jersey, and Yousef Barasneh, of Wisconsin defaced Temple Jacob with swastikas and symbols associated with The Base, a multi-state, white supremacist group. In Septemb  more

DETROIT, Michigan, June 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: An armed drug trafficker selling a fentanyl analogue advertised as "heroin" was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced. Ison was joined in the announcement by Orville O. Greene, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Branden Smith, 38, of Detroit, Mi  more

DETROIT, Michigan, June 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: The operator of a supposed foreign exchange trading firm has been charged with running a Ponzi scheme which obtained $100 million from investors, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced. Ison was joined in the announcement by James A. Tarasca, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Mark A. Totten, posted the following news release on June 28, 2023: The Department of Justice today announced the creation of the Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Regional Outreach Program, which permanently places 10 attorneys and coordinators in five designated regions across the United States to aid in the prevention and response to missing or murdered Indigenous people. "My office is com  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, June 30 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Mark A. Totten, issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: U.S. Attorney Mark Totten for the Western District of Michigan today announced the indictment of Nathan Weeden, 23, of Houghton, Michigan for conspiring with others and allegedly defacing Temple Jacob - a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan - with swastikas and symbols associated with The Base, a multi-state, white supremacist group. "  more

WASHINGTON, June 23 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 56501) involving Palisades Nuclear Plant, Michigan: * * * Facility: Palisades Region: 3 State: MI Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] CE NRC Notified By: Jeffrey Lewis HQ OPS Officer: Brian P. Smith Notification Date: 05/02/2023 Notification Time: 22:41 [ET] Event Date: 05/02/2023 Event Time: 15:00 [EDT] Last Update Date: 06/22/2023 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eric G. Olshan, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: A resident of Pittsburgh and a resident of Detroit, Michigan, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Fraud Conspiracy and Bank Fraud, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. The ten-count Indictment named Matthew Lloyd Parker, Jr., age 36, of Detroit, MI, and Virginia R. Humphries, age  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Michigan man has been arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Jeremy Ro  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release on June 27, 2023: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today visited Michigan to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to build more, new, and better markets for producers and ensure children have access to healthy and nutritious meals during the summer months as part of the Investing in America agenda. In Detroit, Secretary Vilsack joined Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate   more

DETROIT, Michigan, June 30 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: * * * Wayne Hospital Failed to Transfer Disabled Nurse to a Vacant Job She Could Perform, Federal Agency Charges * * * William Beaumont Hospital, doing business as Beaumont Health System, operators of Beaumont Hospital, located in Wayne, Michigan, failed to accommodate an employee with a disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a   more