News from February 2020
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-05. Feb. 27, 2020 To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective Feb. 3, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) established a Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens or Mexfly) ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the delay of enforcement of certain requirements under the interim final rule (IFR) establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: A man who threw guns from a car during a police chase pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was arrested today by federal agents on charges of mortgage fraud and scheming to defraud the Orange Public Library, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - A record 1,740,945 people visited Death Valley National Park last year. The desert park’s visitation has more than doubled in the past ten years.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s Members’ Day Hearing to examine Members’ priorities in development of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher T. Engle, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Keith Baham, 20, and David McKinney, 19, of Washington, D.C., were found guilty by a jury today of armed carjacking, armed robbery, first-degree theft, and unauthorized use of vehicle, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea. Baham was also convicted of two counts of Possession of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Chinese National Sentenced for Stealing Trade Secrets Worth $1 Billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Daniel Heim, age 32, of Dubuque, Iowa, has been charged with being a drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition. The charge is contained in an Indictment unsealed on Feb. 26, 2020, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Anthony Ingram, 32, was sentenced today for kidnapping and sexually assaulting an Alabama woman. United States District Judge Sara Lioi sentenced Ingram to 30 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release. A jury previously convicted Ingram after a week-long trial in October.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Taylor County, Iowa, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to excessive rain, flash flooding, flooding, and high winds that occurred March 1, 2019, through June 15, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MICHAEL VERZELLA, 41, of Branford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a fraud offense related to his theft of at least $240,000 from his non-profit employer and numerous individuals serviced by his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher T. Engle, of Bunker Hill, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Andron McKinney (29, Tampa) to seven years and eight months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered McKinney to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced the getaway driver in two armed robberies in Tuscaloosa, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) introduced their landmark Environmental Justice for All Act at a press conference today on Capitol Hill. The event marked the culmination of a yearlong process with advocates and stakeholders in which Members of Congress met with and gathered feedback from the public and the environmental justice community to craft the legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: PENDLETON, Ore. - On March 9, 2020, the Bureau of Reclamation, in close coordination with the City of Pendleton and Umatilla County officials, plans to increase releases to 200 cubic feet per second out of McKay Dam. On March 10, 2020, Reclamation will incrementally increase releases up to 1,200 cfs for several hours, then gradually decrease flows to minimum releases on March 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Woman Escaped After Being Kidnapped, Assaulted & Handcuffed.
