PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 23, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, metropolitan area spent an average of $87,163 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted t  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 23, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD, metropolitan area spent an average of $86,509 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra H  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 22, 2024, entitled "Consumer Expenditures in the Washington Metropolitan Area - 2022-23": * * * Households in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, metropolitan area spent an average of $102,604 per year in 2022-23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Alexandra H  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 22, 2024, entitled "Pennsylvania Job Openings and Labor Turnover - August 2024": * * * Pennsylvania had 290,000 job openings in August 2024, compared to 285,000 openings in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the job openi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * Settlements advance EPA's National Enforcement Priority of protecting communities from coal ash contamination * * * Today, Oct. 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced agreements with four companies to settle violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's regulations related to coal ash surface impoundments and landfills. The settlements, finalized   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers at NETL and their partners have received $1.7 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop and field-validate H2-SMART -- novel distributed fiber optic sensors with an artificial intelligence-driven model to locate and quantify hydrogen emissions from pipelines with enhanced a  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Jeffrey R. Bengel and Nicole A. Stockey will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department's nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 5, 2024, general election. AUSAs Bengel and Stockey have been appointed to serve   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release: United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Diane Gillard, 41, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John M. Gallagher to 192 months in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and $2,100 in restitution for drug trafficking and gun offenses. On July 18, 2023, a grand jury in the Eastern Dist  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Oct. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Oct. 23, 2024: A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Senior United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab imposed the sentence on Dontae Blackshear, 26, also ordering Blackshear to serve six years of superv  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: Philadelphia, PA -- Members of the U.S. Marshals Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force arrested Raphael Ezeamaka,18, at an apartment complex in the 400 block of Ramunno Drive in Middletown, Delaware. Ezeamaka was wanted by the Philadelphia Police Department for three counts of Attempt to commit Criminal Homicide in relation to a shooting that took place October 8th   more

ROYAL OAK, Michigan, Oct. 23 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a press gaggle on Oct. 21, 2024, by Vice President Kamala Harris at Royal Oak Music Theatre: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Well, we are here in Michigan, just left Pennsylvania. And then after Michigan, we'll be on our way to Wisconsin. And I will mention a couple of things that have just recently come up -- for example, that my opponent, Donald Trump, does not believe we should raise mini  more