Upgrades will benefit more than 20,000 customers in the Mahoning Valley YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, April 25, 2022 — FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) subsidiary Ohio Edison is completing grid modernization work in…
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ – Alerts to the Atlantic City Police Department via the city’s ShotSpotter alert system led to the arrest of three men and the recovery of handguns and…
PITTSBURGH, April 19, 2022 — “I wanted to create a system to automatically sanitize the air and hard/soft surfaces to help prevent the spread of COVID-19,” said an inventor, from…
By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price WASHINGTON – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has driven up financial stability risks “on several fronts” and will test the resilience of the global financial…
EGG HARBOR, NJ (release) – Egg Harbor Township has partnered with CivicReady to implement its mass notification solution. Available from CivicPlus, a leader in integrated technology for local government, the…
BEAUMONT, Texas – A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas returned an indictment this week in Beaumont charging seven inmates at U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont, who are members…
By Eric Onstad and Pratima Desai LONDON – Commodity trader Trafigura and other firms are moving to take large amounts of zinc out of London Metal Exchange approved warehouses in…
WASHINGTON – BayCare Health System Inc. and entities that operate four affiliated Florida hospitals (collectively BayCare) have agreed to pay the United States $20 million to resolve allegations that BayCare…
BERLIN – Berlin is considering buying a missile defence system from Israel or the United States to defend against threats including Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, German weekly Welt am…
(Reuters) – Washington state has become the first in the United States to pass a law that creates an alert system for missing indigenous people. Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat,…
WASHINGTON – The Washington subway system said on Thursday that it plans to begin the gradual resumption of running trains that have been suspended since a derailment in October. A…
By Huw Jones LONDON – Securities settlement house Euroclear said on Monday it had joined a consortium of banks building a payment system for tokenised assets in the latest sign…
BUFFALO, N.Y., March 4, 2022 — M&T Bank Corporation (NYSE: MTB) (“M&T”) announced today receipt of regulatory approval from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to complete the…
– Several Russian banks said on Sunday they would soon start issuing cards using the Chinese UnionPay card operator’s system coupled with Russia’s own Mir network, after Visa and MasterCard…
LVIV – Ukraine’s central bank governor Kyrylo Shevchenko said on Thursday the Ukrainian banking and financial system remained resilient amid Russia’s invasion and had been boosted by international financial support…
BEIRUT -A U.S. Treasury delegation urged Lebanese authorities to mount investigations into what it described as abuses within the Lebanese banking system by members of the political and economic elite,…
LVIV – Ukraine’s banking system is running smoothly and banks are replenishing cash machines where possible, central bank governor Kyrylo Shevchenko said in a statement on Tuesday. Online banking is…
Western leaders are divided on the question of whether to kick Russia out of a major international payment system, a move that could cripple the nation’s banks and ability to…
TOKYO -Japan will join the United States and other Western countries in blocking certain Russian banks’ access to the SWIFT international payment system, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Sunday,…
WASHINGTON – Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday said they could act to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a further…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on leaders of NATO member countries on Friday to use the SWIFT international payments system to damage Russian President Vladimir Putin and…
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI – Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system…
KYIV – Ukraine’s foreign minister on Thursday urged countries to ban Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system – one of the toughest non-military sanctions the West could impose…
Seattle’s transit system has become unusable after reports of toxic fentanyl and meth smoke, volatile behavior and dangerous work environments, which has scared off travelers, local authorities said, The Seattle…
WASHINGTON – NCH Healthcare System (NCH), which operates two hospitals in Collier County, Florida, has agreed to pay the United States $5.5 million to resolve allegations that it made donations…