News published on Federal Newswire in May 2019

News from May 2019


Chairwoman Lowey Statement at Full Committee Markup of FY 2020 Legislative Branch Funding Bill

Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Legislative Branch bill.


Superseding Indictment Adds Developer/Entrepreneur to Racketeering Conspiracy

News Release: Superseding Indictment Adds Developer/Entrepreneur to Racketeering Conspiracy.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerry Hayes, 71, of West Seneca, NY, who was convicted of unlawfully mailing lottery tickets and related matter, was fined $1,000 by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.


DEA agents arrest Tucson woman on federal charges for selling fentanyl resulting in three overdoses, one victim died

News Release: PHOENIX - DEA Phoenix Division Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announces the arrest of Jocelyn Lopez-Sanchez, a 22-year old Tucson woman who is now in custody following an indictment obtained by DEA agents Wednesday afternoon. Lopez-Sanchez was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 1, 2019.


News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.


Department of Energy Announces $8 Million in Funding for Energy System Resilience

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy (DOE) announced an $8 million investment in innovative approaches to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s energy infrastructure. The partnership opportunity will spur the development of next generation tools and technologies that are not available...


News Release: WELLFLEET, MA. - United States Park Rangers of Cape Cod National Seashore are seeking the public’s help with identifying those responsible for an incident that damaged protected species habitat between Coast Guard Beach Eastham and Coast Guard Beach Truro, between the evening of May 4 and the morning of May 5.


News Release: CONCORD - Heidi Langevin, 44 of Belmont, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.


Release: Washington, DC, May 9, 2019 - As part of Hurricane Preparedness Week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced improvements to the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). In its continued commitment to serve Americans in times of need while enhancing public trust...


A Car Ride Results in Three Months in Prison for Cedar Rapids Woman

News Release: A Cedar Rapids woman who gave a fugitive a car ride to a hotel was sentenced today to three months in federal prison. Saudia Raquel Watkins, age 28, received the prison term after a November 7, 2018, guilty plea to one count of Misprision of a Felony.


Firefighters planning prescribed burns in Moffat County beginning Monday

News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Fire managers from the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit are planning to conduct two prescribed burns in Moffat County beginning Monday.


News Release: Washington D.C.- Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Committee’s Chairman, yesterday introduced legislation calling on the Trump Administration to retain limits on Russia’s nuclear forces. The “Richard G.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FUGUAN LOVICK, a/k/a “Fu Banga," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to a shooting that he committed inside the Barclays Center on April 21, 2018, as part of his participation in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey"). U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer accepted the defendant’s guilty plea.


News Release: Visions of Harmony: Painted Tapestries of South Florida’s Coral Reefs will open in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery on May 17, 2019, and run daily through August 18. The paintings by the Palette Knife Artists of Miami feature interpretations of Florida’s 350-mile-long reef...


News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Minneapolis Division Jill Sanborn, and Bloomington Police Chief Jeff Potts will convene a community meeting on May 14, 2019, to talk about the issue of sextortion and the alarming increase that law enforcement is seeing in...



North Korean Cargo Vessel Connected to Sanctions Violations Seized by U.S. Government

News Release: North Korean Cargo Vessel Connected to Sanctions Violations Seized by U.S. Government.


News Release: Washington D.C. - At a recently concluded Capitol Hill press conference this morning, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), announced the introduction of their House and Senate mining reform bills to modernize the nation’s badly antiquated hardrock mining laws. Energy and Mineral...


Three indicted for drug conspiracy involving thousands of THC cartridges used with vaping devices

News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute THC.


News Release: Join the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and become an important member of a team of dedicated individuals who work to maintain the park. As a member of the Youth Conservation Corps you will personally have a role in protecting the nation's precious resources.