ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southeast Regional Information Office issued the following report on Aug. 22, 2024, entitled "North Carolina Job Openings and Labor Turnover - June 2024": * * * North Carolina had 281,000 job openings in June 2024, compared to 285,000 openings in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that the job openings rate in North C  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news: * * * Accelerators will help advance and scale early-stage technologies for national and economic security * * * DARPA has selected five top technology accelerators from across the nation as DARPA Commercial Accelerators to facilitate rapid commercialization and scale of DARPA-funded technologies. The regional Commercial Accelerators are: * Capital Factory,   more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Atlanta Division issued the following news release: Jason Dean Keever, 42, of Asheville, was sentenced to 336 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release today for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Admini  more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The U.S. Justice Department's Drug Enforcement Administration's Atlanta Division issued the following news release: Allen Lee Henson, 54, of Morganton, N.C., was sentenced today to 168 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division of the Drug Enforcement A  more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Jason Dean Keever, 42, of Asheville, was sentenced to 336 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release today for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administratio  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: A Fayetteville Blood gang member who led a drug trafficking organization that distributed thousands of pounds of high-grade marijuana was sentenced to 360 months in prison for drug trafficking and firearm charges. On May 24, 2023, Terrence Michael Pittman, age 29, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than one thousand kilograms of marijuana, p  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina issued the following news release: The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced the seizure of nearly $5 million worth of Tether, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar. These seized funds were traced to cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with the laundering of criminally derived proceeds stolen from victims of cryptocurrency investment  more

ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug. 22 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina issued the following news release: Allen Lee Henson, 54, of Morganton, N.C., was sentenced today to 168 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Robert J. Murphy, Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administ  more