News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida,.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: DENVER - National Park Service Regional Director Mike Reynolds announced the selection of Deanna Greco as superintendent of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area in Colorado. The position also supervises the Superintendent of Florissant Fossil Beds National...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On April 1, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Southern Nevada District issued a Decision Record (DR) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) based on analysis provided in the Southern Nevada District Emergency, Public Safety, and Highway Nuisance Gathers Environmental Assessment (EA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: An Alabama man who sold heroin and fentanyl in Iowa was sentenced today to eight months in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s request for proposals to allow American companies to temporarily store up to 30 million barrels of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding $2.6 million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) also known as Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is announcing additional modifications to operations in response to guidance from Duval County and the state of Florida. The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and partners is our number one priority. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Detroit, MI - U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider and Sarah Kull, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) in Detroit, warned Michigan residents to watch out for scammers attempting to steal COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: As of April 3, Black Canyon and Curecanti will offer no services outside those that support visitor or resource protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: As our country finds new ways of communicating during the COVID-19 pandemic, Michigan residents have turned to video-teleconferencing (VTC) platforms, such as Zoom, to stay connected. Unfortunately, as the FBI reported this week, there has been a rise in the number of so-called “Zoom-bombing," or video...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Fort Payne, Ala. - On the afternoon of Friday, April 3, 2020, a call was placed to 9-1-1 reporting a 33 year old male from Chilton County had gone underwater and not come back up while swimming on the Little River at Little River Canyon National Preserve. First responders were immediately dispatched an on-scene within minutes and a search and rescue operation was initiated.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Today, the Bureau of Land Management released the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Fuels Reduction and Rangeland Restoration in the Great Basin. This Draft PEIS is intended to further efforts to conserve and restore sagebrush communities within a 223 million-acre...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Iva Lacey, 44, of Waynesboro, was sentenced Wednesday by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Heaslip Engineering LLC, Citadel Builders LLC, Suncoast Projects LLC - doing business as Hub Steel - and eight subcontractors for safety and health violations at the construction site of a planned Hard Rock hotel in downtown New Orleans. Three workers suffered fatal injuries and 18 other workers suffered serious injuries in a partial building collapse.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Dear Assistant Secretary Rutledge: I am writing today to request that you quickly exercise your new authority to extend filing deadlines for certain notice and disclosure requirements imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Congress amended section 518 of ERISA in the...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for April 2020, which are effective April 1-April 30, 2020. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for April is 0.625 percent, down from 1.500 percent in March.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: Lake Worth Businessman Pleads Guilty to Evading Taxes on Millions in Income, Stashing Funds in Secret Accounts Around the World.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - John Scott Brooks, 36, of Lawton, has been arrested and charged with robbing the Southwest Oklahoma Federal Credit Union (SOFCU), announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man has been arrested for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy in which he allegedly set up a drug mill in his apartment, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Feb. 24, Gregg Larry Holiday, 47, of Goulding, Utah, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Holiday previously pleaded guilty to assault of an intimate partner or dating partner resulting in substantial bodily injury.
