By David Beasley | Sep 25, 2022
H. Thomas Workman has been named director of the Bureau of Land Management's National Operations Center.
By David Beasley | Sep 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding food banks and school lunch programs about $2 billion more in financing so they can buy foods grown in the U.S.
By David Beasley | Sep 22, 2022
A former criminal defense attorney in Florida has been sentenced to six months in prison for conspiring to bribe a prosecutor.
By David Beasley | Sep 21, 2022
An Ohio man and a Huntington, West Virginia, woman were sentenced to prison for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that distributed large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other illegal drugs in the Huntington region.
By David Beasley | Sep 20, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service has announced a Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative (LFPA) agreement with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
By David Beasley | Sep 20, 2022
A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty to threatening a Massachusetts woman and cyberstalking.
By David Beasley | Sep 20, 2022
As part of a new site-wide assessment of the Cherokee County NPL Superfund Site in southeastern Kansas, the EPA will provide free home lead testing.
By David Beasley | Sep 20, 2022
Combating human smuggling across international borders, transnational criminal enterprises and mass immigration takes a group effort, was the U.S. message at a recent virtual meeting with representatives from North, Central and South America.
By David Beasley | Sep 19, 2022
The Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with General Electric Company (GE) for the company to evaluate the Lower River section of the Hudson River polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Superfund site to determine the best course of action for resolving contamination, according to a Sept. 13 EPA news release.
By David Beasley | Sep 19, 2022
A Maine man pleaded guilty Sept. 1 to federal child exploitation offenses in a Boston federal court.
By David Beasley | Sep 19, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting loan and grant applications for a $1 billion program to increase high-speed internet in rural areas.
By David Beasley | Sep 19, 2022
A joint operation by the The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice has disrupted and destroyed a large-scale human smuggling enterprise operating throughout Texas and the southern U.S.
By David Beasley | Sep 17, 2022
Eight members and associates of the multinational criminal group La Mara Salvatrucha have been indicted on racketeering charges, involving murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and related drug and firearms offenses.
By David Beasley | Sep 16, 2022
Wendy Wu, political economy editor at the South China Morning Post, recently highlighted some challenges China is facing in its food security and emphasized the importance of stability leading into the 20th Party Congress.
By David Beasley | Sep 16, 2022
Smaller food producers and distributors in under-served communities can now apply to participate in a federal program to strengthen local food businesses that has $400 million in available funding.
By David Beasley | Sep 15, 2022
Low water levels below Glen Canyon Dam are now affecting trout health, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced.
By David Beasley | Sep 15, 2022
U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, expressed mixed feelings about the recent proposition to designate two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as “hazardous" substances.
By David Beasley | Sep 15, 2022
A Massachusetts woman was found guilty of participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
By David Beasley | Sep 14, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security launched a new hiring initiative to improve customer experience and enhance service delivery.
By David Beasley | Sep 10, 2022
The U.S. government has obtained a warrant to seize a $45 million airplane owned by Russian energy company PJSC LUKOIL, a news release says.
