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News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Muse, age 44, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on Oct. 26, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to five years’ imprisonment for armed bank robbery.

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia framing contractor faces $269,594 in proposed penalties after the company was again found exposing employees to deadly fall hazards at a residential worksite in the city’s Roxborough section on April 21, 2022.

Environmental System Science grant opened on Nov. 1.

Identifying and Mitigating Russian Chemical and Biological Threats (RCBT) grant opened on Nov. 1.

News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A man formerly residing in Newark, New Jersey was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a scheme to deceive and cheat $1 million from an elderly man residing in Roseburg, Oregon.

News Release: EL PASO - Fernando Angel Puga, aka Cholo, 37, of Las Cruces, was sentenced last week to 372 months in prison for kidnapping and carjacking.

USDA APHIS American Rescue Plan: SARS-CoV-2 in Animals Tribal Funding Opportunity grant opened on Nov. 1.

News Release: Remarks Prepared for Delivery by FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta at Press Conference Announcing the Identification of the Lady of the Dunes.

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) condemned the fraud charges against a British pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong through a statement released in conjunction with other members of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Zimbabwe University Library Resources Program (ULRP) grant opened on Nov. 1.

Call for Proposals of the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant opened on Nov. 1.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that CHRISTOPHER MATOS, 34, of New Britain, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm offenses stemming from his participation in the burglary of a Portland firearms dealer in December 2020.

CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT ON TRIBAL LANDS - 2022 grant opened on Nov. 1.

News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $51,217 in restored tips and back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages from the operator of three Cumberland County, Maine, restaurants that denied 25 workers their full overtime wages or kept portions of their earned tips illegally.

News Release: EL PASO - Fernando Angel Puga, aka Cholo, 37, of Las Cruces, was sentenced last week to 372 months in prison for kidnapping and carjacking.

The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

A New Jersey-based company, National Water Main Cleaning Company (NWMCC), has pleaded guilty to a felony violation of the Clean Water Act.

News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released the 2020 Census Quality Metrics Viewer. This map provides a visual tool for exploring the recently released operational quality metrics for counties and census tracts. The metrics show how the 2020 Census collected data within the counties and census tracts and can provide insight on the quality of the census.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEESHAWN PITTMAN, also known as “Low," 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl and heroin.

Development of National Jail Standards and Assessment Tool grant opened on Oct. 31.

FY23 Countering the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) Military Civil Fusion (MCF) Strategy and Balancing the Risks and Rewards of Emerging Technologies with WMD grant opened on Oct. 31.

The U.S. Department of Energy recently released a notice of intent announcing $80 million to help make schools more energy efficient and reduce their energy bills.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced grants of more than $14.5 million for water improvement projects in the agency's Pacific Southwest Region to advance water resources projects.

A federal court placed a Pennsylvania poultry processing facility in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in fines from citations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves thanked Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Sens. Jon Ossof and Raphael Warnock for supporting Hyundai Motors.