News from April 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston, Texas, removed three fugitives Wednesday wanted for homicide in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Birmingham, Ala. - U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town sent a letter to law enforcement partners in Northern Alabama today, encouraging continued partnerships in preventing a public health crisis from becoming a public safety crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to the town of Odessa, Washington, to make critical water infrastructure improvements to support the community and its businesses. The EDA grant, to be located in an Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $326,401 in local funds.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: A woman and dog are recovering from an attack by a rabid white-nosed coatimundi at a private inholding within Coronado National Memorial on Saturday morning. The coati attacked the dog first, and then bit the woman as she tried to pull her dog away from it. The woman’s husband shot and killed the coati.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Protecting victims’ rights, protections and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, Terrence Lorenzo Hill, 38, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison for unlawfully possessing ammunition after a prior felony conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.5 million grant to the city of Hidalgo, Texas, to make critical roadway and drainage repairs needed to improve Produce Road, a major trade gateway. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: by U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today for a briefing and discussion on the agency’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to disburse the second round of provider payments authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominical national who previously resided in Providence, RI, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston with one count of unlawful re-entry of a deported alien.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined several of her Senate colleagues on a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell urging swift action to make loans accessible to domestic energy producers. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D. led the effort.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today issued the following statement after Senate passage of the fourth Coronavirus package, the Paycheck Protection and Health Care Enhancement Act...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: LAKEVIEW, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District has analyzed the potential impacts of a proposed perlite mine expansion, and through the issuance of a Record of Decision (ROD), is proposing to authorize the expansion of the existing mine by up to 262 additional acres. The BLM intends to allow the expansion of the mine in a manner that protects culturally significant sites and raptor nests and reduces visual impacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of time served to be followed by three years of supervised release on his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, false statements to the government, and theft of government money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION. DA-2020-09. April 21, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed detection of the pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2 (Rs R3bv2) in a symptomatic geranium (Pelargonium sp.) plant located in a Michigan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Peter Gilbert, 36, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with one count of manufacturing and attempting to manufacture child pornography, and one count of distributing and attempting to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wyoming County dentist, Christopher Bereznak, age 50, of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 20, 2020, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to a term of imprisonment of time served, approximately eight and a half months, on unlawful drug distribution charges.
