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Thomas Catenacci The U.S. Chamber of Commerce characterized the worker shortage as a crisis that is hurting businesses of all sizes and slowing the nation’s economic recovery. The biggest challenge U.S. businesses currently face is the lack of qualified workers to fill open jobs, according…
Read More ‘Operation Warp Speed For Jobs’: Worker Shortage Is Getting Worse, US Chamber Says
Andrew Trunsky A Nashville hat shop that sported yellow patches resembling the Star of David with “NOT VACCINATED” across the front was met with widespread backlash and lost revenue. Stetson and Goorin Bros., two prominent hat companies, said they were cutting ties with the NAshville…
Read More Tennessee Hat Store Faces Backlash After Showing Off Anti-Vax Star Of David Badges
A federal jury convicted a West Virginia doctor Thursday for prescribing a buprenorphine product in violation of the Controlled Substances Act. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Sriramloo Kesari, M.D., 78, of Charleston distributed the drug Suboxone outside the scope of professional…
Read More Jury Convicts West Virginia Doctor of Drug Distribution
A Las Vegas woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to export goods from the United States to Iran, in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations. According to the indictment on Friday,…
Read More Las Vegas Woman Arrested And Charged With Illegally Exporting Goods To Iran
Eleven federal indictments unsealed in San Diego today charge twenty-three documented gang members and associates with heroin, methamphetamine and firearms trafficking. The crackdown announced today is the latest in a series of efforts by the Department of Justice to turn the tide of the opioid…
Read More 23 Gang Members Charged In California Crackdown, Heroin, Meth, And Firearms Traffickers
Thomas Catenacci Relative to the national trend, job searches temporarily increased in states that have announced they will no longer offer the pandemic-related federal unemployment boost, an economic report showed. In states that are withdrawing from the federal unemployment program, interest in job postings increased…
Read More REPORT: Job Searches Increased In Republican States Canceling Federal Unemployment Boost
Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces that a federal jury has found Michael Craig Gorycki (50, Titusville) guilty of attempted enticement of a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual activity. Gorycki faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in…
Read More Florida Man Convicted Of Attempting To Entice And Meet A 13-Year-Old Child To Engage In Sex
A Preston, Georgia resident and former pediatric nurse practitioner (NP) has pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography in a case involving thousands of images and videos of child pornography. William Clinton Storey, 41, of Preston, Georgia, pleaded guilty to one count distribution of child…
Read More Former Georgia Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Pleads Guilty To Distributing Child Porn
Kaylee Greenlee Thousands of migrants ordered to remain in Mexico as their asylum cases were processed were returned to the country indefinitely despite the Biden administration admitting most of the remaining cases into the U.S., the Associated Press reported Wednesday. President Joe Biden ended former…
Read More Thousands Of Migrants Biden Said Would Be Allowed To Enter The US Turned Back To Mexico
A New York man admitted on Thursday, to attempting to entice a minor and traveling from New York to New Jersey to meet an individual, whom he believed was a 13-year-old girl, to engage in sexual activity, Acting U.S Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Eduardo…
Read More New York Man Admits Attempting to Entice A New Jersey Minor to Have Sex