News from January 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced a $1 million Water Resource Recovery Prize to accelerate resource recovery from municipal wastewater across the United States. Through this two-phased competition, DOE is accepting proposals...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, today sent a letter to Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia of Georgia expressing concern over recent events that indicate a backsliding from Georgia’s commitment to build the institutions of their democracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Conspired to distribute more than 3 pounds of meth.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chris Coons (D-Del.), member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, sent a letter yesterday to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting that the U.S. Department of the Treasury update the list of sanctioned persons in Zimbabwe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: DAYTON - A former Dayton City Commissioner was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 12 months in prison for accepting a thing of value in connection with a local government.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected two projects to receive approximately $9 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under Phase II of the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001816, Advanced Components for 65% Combined Cycle Efficiency, sCO2 Power Cycles and Advanced Modular Heat Engines.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: GOLDEN VALLEY, Ariz., Jan. 29, 2020 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Arizona State Director Jack R. Smith announced USDA has invested $1.6 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 1,492 rural households, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Brandon Andrade, 29, of Manchester, was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - A criminal information has been filed against a 58-year-old Bryan resident for his suspected role involving wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan. K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN VELEZ, 31, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Ft. Lauderdale, Florida woman has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced a 60-day public comment period for the Stony Creek Water District draft repayment contract. This draft contract provides project water service and facilities’ repayment pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) continues its 50th anniversary activities with a snowshoe and/or cross-country ski on Saturday, February 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dune Climb. Join park rangers and volunteers from the Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes and experience...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that defendant MARTHA BUEZO MARTINEZ (“MARTINEZ"), age 49, of Kenner, LA, pled guilty to failing to account for and pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7202.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: COOLIDGE, AZ - On February 5, 2020 Casa Grande Ruins will host Allen Denoyer as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on February 5 featuring Allen Denoyer who will present a lecture titled "Early Agriculture in Southern Arizona". The speaker series will continue every Wednesday at noon through March 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade today sentenced Charles A. Hewitt, 48, of Creve Coeur, Ill., to a total of 35 years in prison. The sentence consists of 25 years for the enticement and exploitation of minor girls to engage in sexual acts and an additional, consecutive 10 years...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Mexican national who is illegally present in the United States was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, Wednesday, for transporting illegal aliens and illegal reentry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Estep, of Galloway, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years probation for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2020
News Release: NEW YORK - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman announced that German Gomez-Castruita and Benjamin Contreras-Rangel were charged in a criminal complaint in Manhattan federal court with conspiring...
