KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 18, 2024, entitled "Montana Job Openings and Labor Turnover - October 2024": * * * Montana had 31,000 job openings in October 2024, unchanged from September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that the job openings more PR

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 18, 2024, entitled "Wyoming Job Openings and Labor Turnover - October 2024": * * * Wyoming had 16,000 job openings in October 2024, compared to 17,000 openings in September, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "America's High-Stakes Bet on Legalized Sports Gambling." The hearing will examine the growth in sports betting since the Supreme Court's ruling in Murphy v. NCAA struck more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Government Publishing Office issued the following news release: The U.S. Government Publishing Office's (GPO) print procurement program awarded $469.2 million in contracts with private-sector printing companies across the country to meet the printing and publishing needs of Federal agencies in fiscal year 2024. This work represented more than 73,000 orders. Nearly 75 percent of all printing ordered by Federal agencies from GPO is performed by private sector firms more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Federal Open Market Committee announced its decision to cut the benchmark rate by 25 basis points: "President Trump's tax and trade agenda are the policies we need to bring greater certainty to our economy and put America's workers, families, farmers, and small busin more PR

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2024: A man from Moberly, Missouri was indicted Wednesday and accused of fraudulently obtaining $284,000 that was supposed to provide rental assistance to families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Steven W. Hendren, 32, of Moberly, was indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in St. Louis with three counts of wire fraud and one count of agg more PR

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, Dec. 19 -- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2024: * * * Home 9 Press Release 9 Attorney General Bailey Slams Biden Administration for Disregarding Property Owners * * * In an effort to protect Missourians' property rights, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey directed a letter to Biden's Department of Energy urging them to halt their $4.9 billion loan to aid the Grain Belt Express (GBE), a massive transmission  more PR

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Dec. 18, 2024: * * * Federal Agents Seized Large Quantities of Illegal Drugs, Firearms from Residence * * * A Raytown, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after federal agents found large quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin in his residence along with several firearms. Jauan D. Pratt, 30, was charged in a three-count indi more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued a notice in the Federal Register on Dec. 12, 2024, entitled "Inventory Completion: Indiana University, Bloomington". Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Indiana University has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human more ST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service issued a notice in the Federal Register on Dec. 12, 2024, entitled "Inventory Completion: Indiana University, Bloomington". Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Indiana University has completed an inventory of human remains and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and Indian Tribes or Na more ST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release on Dec. 17, 2024: Today in a Senate Judiciary Hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) challenged Charlie Baker, President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over the NCAA's pro-transgender, anti-woman policies. "No federal court has ordered the NCAA to include biological men in women's sports. There is not a single case that has ordered the NCAA to do so..." said Senator Hawley. "In fa more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced a new proposal that would expand the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to reward work, support families, and put tax dollars back into the hands of working parents. "President Trump won with the support of working people with kids," Senator Hawley explained. "Next year's tax bill should provide them a big tax cut," he continued, arguing for the inclusion of his CTC proposal i more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Sam Graves, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release: Today Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman David Rouzer (R-NC) commended the U.S. Senate for approving the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (WRDA), legislation to improve the nation's ports and harbors, inland waterway navigation more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Small businesses drive America's economy, generating jobs and economic growth in communities big and small all across the country. The 2017 Trump tax cuts invested in this engine of economic growth by providing a 20 percent small business tax deduction - otherwise known as Section 199A - which helped ensure shops lining Main Streets across the nation could comp more PR