NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Northeast Regional Information Office issued a report on Dec. 20, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in New Hampshire - Second Quarter 2024": * * * Employment rose in 2 of the 3 largest counties in New Hampshire from June 2023 to June 2024, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are the 369 U.S. counties or county equivalents with annual average employment levels of 7  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- The General Services Administration issued the following news release: * * * Additional ID verification and onboarding locations in post offices make credentialing easier and faster for federal employees * * * The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced the opening of ten new USAccess Credentialing Post Office Sites (CPOS) in fiscal year 2024 (FY 2024). The ten additional sites opened in FY 2024 are located in the following  more

PORTLAND, Maine, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: * * * Kenneth Adams was previously convicted in 2016 for trafficking in Aroostook County * * * A New York man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to distributing controlled substances and possessing them with intent to distribute. According to court records, based in part on information received from a confidential informant, investiga  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: * * * Mohammad Reza Nouri, a Captain in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Allegedly Orchestrated the November 7, 2022, Murder of Stephen Troell, a U.S. Citizen Living in Iraq, in Retaliation for the January 2020 Death of Qasem Soleimani * * * Edward Y. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Merrick B. Garlan  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: Xiomara Christian, age 37, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was sentenced yesterday to 33 months of incarceration following her guilty plea to conspiracy to commit money laundering. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, mad  more

BUFFALO, New York, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Independent Health Association and its affiliate, Independent Health Corporation (collectively, Independent Health) have agreed to pay up to $98 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of invalid diagnosis codes to Med  more

ALBANY, New York, Dec. 21 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York issued the following news release on Dec. 20, 2024: Leshawn Thomas, age 33, of Clayville, New York, pled guilty yesterday to possessing cocaine and cocaine base with the intent to distribute them and to unlawfully possessing firearms. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, made the  more