WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has a cooperative agreement with Connecticut under the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI). Through this agreement, USDA and Connecticut are working together to offer over $2.1 million in competitive grant funding for projects designed to bu  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on entitled "Fatal Work Injuries in Connecticut - 2022": * * * Fatal work injuries totaled 34 in 2022 for Connecticut, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the number of work-related fatalities in Connecticut was up from the previous year. (See chart 1.) Fatal occupational injuries in the  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Feb. 8, 2024, entitled "Fatal Work Injuries in Connecticut - 2022": * * * Fatal work injuries totaled 34 in 2022 for Connecticut, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the number of work-related fatalities in Connecticut was up from the previous year. (See chart 1.) Fatal occupational   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LUIS FELICIANO, also known as "Louminaty," 39, of East Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 132 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and othe  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging STANDFORD SMITH, also known as "Pops," 34, of   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston apprehended un unlawfully present Salvadoran national and registered sex offender Jan. 26 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Deportation officers from ERO Boston arrested the 26-year-old, who had been convicted in Norwalk, Connecticut, for possessing child sexual abuse material in 2020. "This unlawfully presen  more

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Feb. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2024: After investigations and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal court ordered a Milford sports bar and its owner to pay employees a total of $359,485 in back pay, emotional distress damages, withheld compensation and punitive damages for violating the anti-retaliation provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Occupational Safety and Heal  more