News from October 2019
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 142,579 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Awards More than $122 Million in Public Safety Funding to Michigan.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone hosted 693,118 visits in September 2019. This is a 4.3 percent decrease from September 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PAUL VAN MANEN was sentenced today to 23 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl that resulted in the death of Michael Ogno, a 26-year-old man from Staten Island, New York, and the serious bodily injury of another individual. A unanimous jury convicted VAN MANEN in May 2019 after an eight-day trial before United States District Judge Paul A. Crotty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Ransomware.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Young (619) 546-7981 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: For Felon in Possession. SOUTH BEND - Zachary Adams, age 34, of Mishawaka, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for felon in possession, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Mr. Adams was sentenced to 51 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A joint federal, state, and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 36 individuals on a variety of criminal charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering, using communication facilities to facilitate drug trafficking and various firearms offenses, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of time served (approximately 19 months), to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - CHRISTA DAWN JACKSON, of Tuttle, has pleaded guilty to an information that charges her with embezzling more than $1.2 million through wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing. She has also pleaded guilty to signing a false federal income tax return and admitted that she owes the IRS more than $200,000.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 15, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement in support of President Donald J. Trump’s National School Lunch Week Proclamation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) celebrates food service professionals, school leaders, as well as the farmers, ranchers, and producers who grow the delicious, healthful, American-grown foods that kids enjoy every day in school lunches.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. This contest and spring art exhibition allows students to serve as community leaders and...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Lake Havasu Field Office invites the public to celebrate the 26th annual National Public Lands Day on October 26. Volunteers will participate in a variety of outdoor projects from 8 a.m. until noon at Take Off Point Recreation Area along Lake Havasu.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Late last week, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Inspector General Calvin L. Scovel III requesting an investigation into Secretary Elaine Chao and her reported conflicts of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A joint federal, state, and local law enforcement initiative has resulted in the arrests of 36 individuals on a variety of criminal charges, including drug trafficking, money laundering, using communication facilities to facilitate drug trafficking and various firearms offenses, announced...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Oct. 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against John P. Horton (Horton) of Gravette, Ark., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Challenging waste types and uniquely shaped waste containers have kept things interesting for employees of the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site’s Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project (AMWTP).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - Nature can be a great inspiration! Local students can celebrate their creativity and interest in nature through the Youth Arts in the Parks 2020 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art Contest. This contest and spring art exhibition allows students to serve as community leaders and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2019
News Release: Albany, GA- A multi-agency investigation has resulted in the execution of search warrants today in Dougherty, Henry, Muscogee and Worth Counties, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Additionally, federal indictments charging six individuals for drug trafficking were unsealed today.
