News from July 2020
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2020
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 21, 2020
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on July 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation is acting on a request from United Airlines for exemption from the CARES Act airline service obligations announced in Order 2020-4-2. United Airlines requests that the Department grant it an extension from July 7 through August 5 from its service obligation ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau provided a $851.15 million loan under the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) Program to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for the Train Control Implementation and Rehabilitation Project in New England.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations Chair Marcia Fudge of Ohio delivered the following statement at today's subcommittee hearing on the overview of the Farmers to Families Food Box Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Defendant admitted lying about sharing bid information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - A Glendive man today admitted producing and possessing videos containing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission, Marion, Virginia, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Gregory Parker, 51, of Laurel, Mississippi and Brantley Paul Nichols, D.M.D., 42, of Oxford, Mississippi were sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Michelle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Charles Edward Skipp of Grand Rapids to 42 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. Skipp pleaded guilty to 10 felony offenses in February 2020, which included being a felon in possession of firearms, stealing firearms ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Work crews have begun demolishing a set of Department of Energy-owned buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), a key step forward in cleanup at the former nuclear and liquid metals research site in southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI Jackson Field Office is leading the investigation into an assault on a federal law enforcement officer in Gautier, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - July 21, 2020 - Shamain Johnson, 42, of Madison, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for operating a multi-state drug trafficking operation, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Johnson was indicted in June 2017 and convicted in August 2019, after a four-day jury trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that the Secretary of the Interior has transferred a total of 65.74 acres of federal public lands in Arizona and New Mexico to the Department of the Army (Army). The transfers will facilitate installation of power and other utility infrastructure and engineering of the road network to provide access along the southern border with Mexico for border security purposes.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM recently surpassed a project milestone to clean 20 gloveboxes and radiohoods in the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Analytical Laboratory approximately two months early as part of the Savannah River Site’s (SRS) laboratory consolidation efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Since 2017, the wild lands of the Savannah River Site (SRS) have served as a front line in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) fight to eradicate rabies in the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Militia Commander, Paul Nicholas, III, age 49, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on July 21, 2020, for firearms offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Transportation Security Administration officers caught an assault rifle with a high-powered magazine and an arsenal of ammunition artfully concealed behind the lining of a suitcase Monday, July 20, while they were conducting screening operations of checked baggage at Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal C.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that the Secretary of the Interior has transferred a total of 65.74 acres of federal public lands in Arizona and New Mexico to the Department of the Army (Army). The transfers will facilitate installation of power and other utility infrastructure and engineering of the road network to provide access along the southern border with Mexico for border security purposes.
