WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Compensation costs up 3.6 percent in 2024 February 04, 2025 Total compensation costs for private industry workers in the United States rose 3.6 percent from December 2023 to December 2024, compared with a 4.1-percent increase for the year ended in December 2023. In the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA, metropolitan area, compensation costs increased 2.  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 3, 2025 NAVY Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Syracuse, New York, is awarded a $551,012,019 cost-plus-incentive-fee, fixed-price incentive (firm-target), and firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for engineering and technical support and production of the submarine AN/BLQ-10 electronic warfare systems on new-construction and in-service submarines.   more

BROOKLYN, New York, Feb. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: * * * Defendant Falsely Held Himself Out as a Trusted Attorney in the Korean-American Community * * * Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, disbarred attorney Hyun W. Lee, also known as "Michael Lee," was sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to 54 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud   more

NEW YORK, Feb. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: * * * Minh Quang Pham Traveled to Yemen and Received Military Training from AQAP to Commit a Suicide Attack at Heathrow International Airport * * * Danielle R. Sassoon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Devin DeBacker, the Head of the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice, announced tod  more

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: Todd Austin, age 64, of Gloversville, New York, pled guilty today to conspiracy and drug distribution charges in connection with his distribution and possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of pure methamphetamine. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman; Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcemen  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: * * * New York Man Pleads Guilty to Hate Crime for Threatening Jewish Synagogue in Albany A New York man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albany, New York, to civil rights and firearm charges related to his threatening conduct targeted at a Jewish synagogue. According to court documents, Mufid Fawaz Alkhader, 29, of Schenectady,  more

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania, Feb. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on Feb. 4, 2025: A resident of Queens, New York, was sentenced in federal court to six years of imprisonment on his conviction for violating federal narcotics laws related to a six-month Title III wiretap investigation into drug trafficking in and around Blair, Cambria, Centre, and Clearfield counties of Pennsylvania, Acting United States Attorney Troy Ri  more