News from December 2020
By Labor Gazette | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – This year, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) used its authority through a combination of traditional practices and unique approaches to assure safe and healthful working conditions for America’s workers.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC –The U.S. Department of Labor released the following response to the Office of Inspector General’s report regarding the 2017 Tip Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today launched a new era in maritime education with the cutting of steel for the new National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at Philly Shipyard Inc. (Philly Shipyard). This is the initial major construction milestone ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Billy Ray Shamblin, II, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Jermol McCoy, age 37, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former Washington, D.C. government employee with a prior murder conviction was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for distributing fentanyl and illegally possessing multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Eugene McDonald, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A North Carolina man was sentenced late Monday after traveling to Arkansas twice to have sex with a minor he enticed over the internet. United States District Court Judge Brian S. Miller sentenced Jonathan Berrier, 53, of Lexington, North Carolina, to 180 months in federal prison. Cody Hiland, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Little Rock Field Office, announced the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Chief United States District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Lamarion Demetrius Alston on Dec. 15, 2020, to serve a term of imprisonment of 111 months followed by 8 years of supervised release for Armed Robbery of a business (Hobbs Act robbery). The Court accepted the defendant’s guilty plea on Sept. 14, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Previously Convicted in Federal Court for Trafficking Heroin; Will Forfeit $134,000 in Drug Proceeds Seized During a Search of the Defendant’s Residence; Expected to be Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Torrie Smith, 31, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III. Smith previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute, heroin, cocaine, and crack cocaine. Judge...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Dear Dr. Slaoui and General Perna...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Edwin Mack Taylor, of Elkins, West Virginia, is facing drug charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the departure of Assistant United States Attorney Michael Johnson from service to the Eastern District of Arkansas U.S. Attorney’s Office today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Braxton Dauphin Cook, 31, of Pine Hill, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for being an unlawful drug user in possession of stolen firearms. Cook pleaded guilty to the charge in August 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Augusta man was sentenced today in federal court for two counts of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation signed a Record of Decision today on the plan to address structural repairs associated with long-term operations of the Truckee Canal. Built between 1903 and 1905, the canal is part of the Newlands Project, one of Reclamation’s oldest and first-of-its-kind conveyance projects in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: Implementation of misdemeanor docket to address domestic violence in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: In Waco today, 31-year-old Emily Pait admitted to endangering children when she fired a gun inside her Fort Hood residence, announced U.S. Attorney Gregg N. Sofer.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $6.4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) FE-FOA 0002397, University Turbines Systems Research (UTSR) - Focus on Hydrogen Fuels.
