PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District reports that the President's Fiscal Year 2025 Budget request includes more than $122 million in federal funding for the district's civil works program. The request is part of $7.2 billion in gross discretionary funding for the corps' worldwide civil works program. The proposed appropriation for the Pittsburgh District wi more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on March 26, 2024, entitled "New Jersey Job Openings and Labor Turnover - January 2024": * * * New Jersey had 211,000 job openings in January 2024, compared to 221,000 openings in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Alexandra Hall Bovee noted that the job o more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Martin Webler, a business management specialist within NETL's Technology Development Center (TDC), will retire at the end of March. During his 14-year tenure with the Lab he worked by the creed "People make jobs," helping NETL grow, expand and change with the times. Webler joined NETL 14 years ago as a business management specialist in the Strategic Center for  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a partnership with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand the focus of the Global Business Identifier (GBI) Test. The expanded test will explore how identifiers - unique numbers that capture information about legal business entities and their functions - can be leveraged to address a ran more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: By using software tools developed at the Lab, NETL helped co-author "Modeling Framework for Cost Optimization of Process-Scale Desalination Systems with Mineral Scaling and Precipitation," which was recently published in the journal ACS ES&T Engineering. Authored by Mayo Amusat of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Adam Atia of NETL, Alex Dudchenko more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: Sahire Walker was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for committing crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today. Walker, age 45, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge David Stewart Cercone. Judge Cercone ordered Walker to serve six ye more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 27 -- 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 Yong Chun ("Steven") Guo, 57, of Wyomissing, PA, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. to 30 months in federal prison for tax crimes. Guo was also ordered to pay restitution of $1,172,368 and a $95,000 fine. Guo pleaded guilty in 2023 to conspiracy to def more PR