WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news on Oct. 24, 2024: * * * Amtrak and states celebrate with customers and supporters * * * Overwhelming public interest in the new state-sponsored Borealis trains between St. Paul and Chicago has propelled year-to-date ridership past the 100,000 customer mark this week. Operated daily by Amtrak under contracts with Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, state transportation department and Amtrak of  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Oct. 24, 2024, entitled "Wisconsin Job Openings and Labor Turnover - August 2024": * * * Wisconsin had 153,000 job openings in August 2024, compared to 145,000 openings in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the job openings rate in Wisconsin was 4.  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Oct. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on October 24, 2024, Johanna Grace (age: 34) was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, after providing marijuana and a cellular telephone to an inmate of the Waukesha County Jail, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2(a), 1791(a)(1), 1791  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Oct. 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin issued the following news release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 22, 2024, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Nee Gee J. Cloud, a 31-year-old from Neopit, Wisconsin, with intent to murder, burglary, and a domestic violence assault on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment char  more