News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Dec. 1, 2020 -- Beginning in 2021, overnight visitors to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks wilderness areas will be able to make their quota season wilderness permit reservations using the website Recreation.gov. This will replace the old system...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - Annual seasonal closure of wildlife winter range goes into effect today for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), and the City of Durango. These closures remain in place through April 15 to protect wintering mule deer and elk...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - The former leader of the Boston-based Devon Street Kings Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") was sentenced today on racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Indian national was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2020 to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on the British Government’s refusal to open a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of lawyer Patrick Finucane in Belfast, Northern Ireland...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KINTEA MCKENZIE, a/k/a “Kooda B," was sentenced to 54 months in prison in connection with a shooting outside a hotel in Times Square on June 2, 2018, in furtherance of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey") criminal enterprise. MCKENZIE pled guilty on June 3, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who imposed today’s sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Juneau, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced Herman Joseph Brown III, 27, of Ketchikan, Alaska, has been sentenced to 54 months in federal prison and 3 years of supervised release on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office issued new guidance encouraging applications for projects that support secure supply chains of critical minerals.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Shoshone Field Office has implemented annual seasonal motorized use restrictions in the Wood River Valley to protect wintering deer and elk. The seasonal restrictions are for BLM-managed land only and will lift on April 30, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, 34-year-old Rodrigo Rodriguez was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for the sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Jacob Gorman, age 39, of Waverly, New York, pled guilty today to attempted online enticement of a minor. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Bend, Oregon resident was sentenced to federal prison today for crafting a hoax bomb and phoning in a threat to blow up the Deschutes County Courthouse on July 29, 2019, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announced today the capture of Donald Wayne Duckworth. Duckworth had been indicted by a Madison County Grand Jury on two counts of Second-Degree Murder. According to investigators, Duckworth is allegedly involved in a 2017 homicide where a 19-year-old woman’s body was found lying near a driveway in East Madison County. The victim was later identified as Aniya Bryson of Milan, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - Sean Tharp, 36, of Hager Hill, Ky., pleaded guilty in federal court Monday, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins, for his role in conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognizes nine accomplished women for their achievements and leadership in clean energy as part of the U.S Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Initiative.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for December 2020, which are effective December 1-Dec. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Terray Morrison, 31, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Aaric Murray, of Morgantown, West Virginia, is facing a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
