News from March 2019
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is investing $116 million (PDF, 158 KB) to help rebuild and improve rural water infrastructure for 171,000 rural Americans in 23 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - South Bay doctor Venkat Aachi pleaded guilty to distributing hydrocodone outside the scope of his professional practice and without a legitimate medical need, and to health care fraud, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery by Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled: “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investment in our Nation’s Airports Matters."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Seven Canadian wolves, 3 females and 4 males, were translocated to Isle Royale National Park over the weekend by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (OMNRF) and the National Park Service (NPS). Fundraising by the National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation (NPLSF) and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BENICIO VASQUEZ, 32, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 33 Pennsylvania counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses caused by excessive rain, flash flooding and flooding that occurred on or after July 21, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated six Massachusetts counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Berkshire, Bristol, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester counties who suffered losses caused by excessive rainfall and moisture that occurred on or after July 17, 2018, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
Release: Congressman José E. Serrano (D-NY), Chair of the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the National Science Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced that Accurate Home Care, LLC (“Accurate Home Care"), a home health care company headquartered in Otsego, Minnesota, has agreed to pay $726,957.59 to resolve federal False Claims Act violations arising from the unlawful submission of claims for payment to Minnesota Medicaid, a jointly funded federal and state health care program.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management, Joe Balash, to express their continued strong support for the oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently moving forward with the development of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Aurora Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairman Grassley: Thank you for your letter regarding the November 2018 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on recent changes to Medicare payment rates for laboratory tests paid under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS). Secretary Azar asked me to respond on his behalf.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write with grave concern about recent reporting on actions taken by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to track pregnancies of unaccompanied minors in ORR’s custody. Specifically, an internal ORR spreadsheet has been released that contains private reproductive health information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: INDIO, California - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) worked together with other law enforcement agencies to arrest two suspects now named in a felony complaint alleging they robbed an Indio hotel on Friday night.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, PA - Final preparations are underway for a 135-acre prescribed fire at Valley Forge National Historical Park, currently scheduled for early April. Last year the park successfully completed prescribed fire treatments on 126 acres across four meadows to control exotic invasive plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was charged today with making false declarations in relation to a bankruptcy proceeding, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) today released the findings of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, entitled "Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight of Consumer Reporting Agencies."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Defendants Were Part of Two Separate Drug Distribution Organizations and Both Used Guns to Facilitate their Drug Dealing.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Waste Management Symposia (WMS) awarded EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) cleanup contractor a blue ribbon this month for its professional poster session on a unique air monitoring method used during an open-air demolition project.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 25, 2019, Kaniel Singer, 35, of Middle Mesa, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 57 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Singer had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
