News from December 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Jason Wayne Autry, 46, of Holladay, Tennessee, has been federally indicted for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the return of the indictment today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: PORTLAND, Oregon - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced that two Oregon employees and an Oregon airport have received top agency honors for excellence while carrying out the security mission in 2020. Recognized as the highest performers and whose work has made a significant impact on TSA operations this year, due to COVID-19, the awards were announced virtually by TSA Administrator David Pekoske from agency headquarters in Springfield, Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement on the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: BISMARCK, North Dakota - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced that Shane Langerud, an explosive specialist with the agency, has been selected as the 2020 Transportation Security Specialist for Explosives (TSSE) of the Year. This award recognizes the top technical expert on improvised explosive devices and other threats to transportation security.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) extended the terms of seven long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) export authorizations through 2050. Today’s actions follow 10 LNG export term extensions issued in October pursuant to an export term policy statement DOE finalized in July.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to Montgomery City, Missouri, to construct a broadband fiber network to serve local businesses. The EDA grant, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $421,681 in local funds, is expected to create 70 jobs, retain 8 jobs, and generate $12 million in private investment.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding President-elect Joe Biden's nomination of former Secretary Tom Vilsack to serve as Secretary of Agriculture to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Santiago Delfierro Anguiano, a/k/a “Shag," age 50, a federal inmate, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Dee D. Drell for attempting to obtain contraband in prison. Judge Drell sentenced Anguiano to 120...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 344,442 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Salt Lake Field Office is considering potential trail development near growing communities along the Wasatch Front. If implemented, this proposal would increase recreation opportunities and improve public land access. Potential trails would be located in the Lake Mountains in Utah County, the North Oquirrh Management Area (NOMA) in Tooele County, and Rose and Yellow Fork Canyons in Salt Lake County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONEY SOSA, 24, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Antasia Babcock, 27, and Celeste Carr, 34, both of Jamestown, NY, were charged in separate criminal complaints with possessing with...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: The Native Village of Igiugig is one of 250 remote communities in Alaska that rely on isolated, diesel-powered microgrids.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: In a step toward making more accurate and uniform 3D-printed parts such as personalized prosthetics and dental materials, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a method of measuring the rate at which microscopic regions of a liquid raw material harden into a solid plastic when exposed to light.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - An Agawam man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to stealing two firearms and selling and trading them for drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A U.S. Department of State employee and his spouse pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods. The guilty pleas took place before United States District Judge Michael J. McShane. Both defendants will be sentenced on March 18, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2020
News Release: Defendants defrauded stores in Alliance and Boardman.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 343 to 67 vote, a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through December 18 and keep the government open after the current stopgap funding law expires Friday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Prince William County man was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for selling fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Weston man was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud private high schools and international students of millions of dollars in tuition and other fees.
