News from December 2020
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - On Nov. 28, 1950, newspapers and radio stations announced that the then-named Savannah River Plant would be constructed in Aiken and Barnwell counties in South Carolina at the direction of President Harry S. Truman.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Nov. 22 - Nov. 28, 2020. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $600,000 grant to Lawrence Partnership Inc., Lawrence, Massachusetts, to promote workforce training, job creation, entrepreneurial growth, and private investment in northeastern Massachusetts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: Fentanyl Overdose Kills Young Adult Who Ingested Counterfeit Oxycodone Pills.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the release of dozens of criminal aliens from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, California, in October due to a Central District of California judicial order. Some of those detainees have violated the terms of their release and have already been rearrested by local law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: Law Enforcement Recovered Two Guns from Pimp’s Base of Operations; Prostitution Enterprise Transported Victims Along Southeastern Seaboard, as Far South as Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $645,600 grant to Three Roots Capital, Knoxville, Tennessee, to support the implementation of an economic development strategy to drive investment to the University of Tennessee’s Cherokee Farm Research Park. The project, to be located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $161,400 in local funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Andre Diggs, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that COLIN AKPARANTA, formerly a correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (“MCC"), which houses federal inmates in Manhattan, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 40 months...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The United States Attorney’s Office charged Gage Pascoe with the distribution of pills containing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of his customer, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Miller Wilson, Jr. (50, Sparr), his daughter, Myoshi Wilson (26, Citra), and his ex-wife, Erica Wilson (43, Ocala) were sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore for their roles in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care benefits. Each had previously pleaded guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: MOAB, Utah - A swath of remediated property at EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project is now part of a large-scale research study to help identify better revegetation methods for the EM site and other desert areas across the southwest U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Ramon Gonzalez, Jr. to 268 months in prison today. The 48-year-old St. Peters, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon, who is also a member of the Black Disciples street gang, is facing a maximum 20 years in a federal prison after being arrested twice this year for illegally possessing firearms, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's hearing on the impacts on women who are denied an abortion because of an inability to pay.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, UT - U.S. Attorney John Huber announced today that Chiropractor Matthew Wood and his practice, Life Health Medical Center (“LHMC"), have agreed to pay $175,000 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for allegations he improperly billed Medicare for the use of electro-acupuncture devices.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) is onsite at the Double Cottage at Johnstown Flood National Memorial. They are removing the vinyl siding and any other layers to determine the condition of the original siding. HPTC will order any replacement pieces and determine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: Previously served 14 years for federal gun crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge John A. Ross sentenced Ramon Gonzalez, Jr., to 268 months in prison today. The 48-year-old St. Peters, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
