News from August 2019
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 16 Ohio counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to five separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a federal jury in Eugene has found two men guilty of trafficking methamphetamine from Southern California to Central Oregon and the Portland Metropolitan Area for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jose Velez, 36, of Buffalo, NY, with five counts of distribution of heroin and fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Convicted felon coordinated transport of pounds of meth, marijuana and cocaine from California to Iowa for distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah State Office will release for public review and comment an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a proposed land exchange between the BLM and the State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. The exchange is directed by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017, Public Law 114-328, Subtitle B. The public comment period closes on Sept. 6, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Six people are facing charges of distributing methamphetamine after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling earlier this month, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: USMCA will bring home the bacon for Iowa, nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jack Dewayne Neugin, age 50, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Memphis Field Office has relaunched a public awareness campaign to educate the public about the consequences of making school threats and remind community members hoax threats are not a joke.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: [Pocatello, Idaho ] - As part of its ongoing efforts to better serve the public, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pocatello Field Office has begun a pilot program offering permits for fuelwood and Christmas trees online.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter.pdf) to Novartis International AG CEO Vasant Narasimhan requesting documents relating to AveXis, a subsidiary of Novartis, manipulating data about a treatment for infants suffering from spinal muscular atrophy. The treatment, Zolgensma, is the most expensive drug in the world.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced more than $2.8 million in Japanese American Confinement Sites grants to fund 19 preservation, restoration, and education projects. These projects will help tell the story of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Aug. 12, 2019 - Today, the U.S. Census Bureau briefed the media on the launch of address canvassing, the first major field operation of the 2020 Census. Address canvassing improves and refines the Census Bureau’s address list of households nationwide, which is necessary to deliver invitations to respond to the census. The address list plays a vital role in ensuring a complete and accurate count of everyone living in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Allen, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Aug. 12, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Danielle Lynn McCarty, of Shinnston, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: A man who possessed a stolen gun after being convicted of a felony drug offense was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Christopher Brian Cosimano, a/k/a “Durty," (31, Gibsonton) and Michael Dominick Mencher, a/k/a “Pumpkin," (52, Tarpon Springs) guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, and related firearms offenses. Cosimano and Mencher face a mandatory penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: KEMMERER, WY - As part of its ongoing efforts to better serve the public, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Kemmerer Field Office has begun a pilot program offering permits for fuelwood and Christmas trees online.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2019
News Release: A Colombian national arrested in Colombia and extradited to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison in federal court for his role in the Hobbs Act robbery of an employee of a New York business that sold jewelry and gemstones.
