News from July 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of violating federal firearms and explosives laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Teton Interagency fire managers announce the fire danger rating has been elevated to high for the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, National Elk Refuge, and remaining portions of the Teton Interagency Dispatch area. The potential for fire activity has increased due to summer curing of vegetation combined with hot temperatures and dry, windy conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three members of allied Jersey City gangs were charged with the July 7, 2020, shooting of a 12-year old child, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man has been charged with child neglect after he allegedly left his two children unsupervised for more than four hours, at which time the children gained access to his parked vehicle where they were later found deceased.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), and 11 of their Democratic Senate colleagues submitted a comment letter in response the Department of Labor’s proposed rule that would...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: DALLAS - DEA announced that a four-person cabal has been charged with plotting to arrange a murder-for-hire on a DEA task force officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men from the San Gabriel Valley were charged today in federal court for allegedly participating in the kidnapping of Ruochen “Tony" Liao, a Chinese national who was violently abducted from a mall parking lot in San Gabriel two years ago, and whose parents were extorted for $2 million in ransom before Liao died from his injuries.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed President Trump’s announcement of a final rule to modernize the federal regulations that govern the environmental review and permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1970.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A California woman was sentenced today in connection with paying $9,000 to have an individual take online classes for her son, in order to earn credits to facilitate his graduation from Georgetown University.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators has leveraged the power of machine-learning technology to speed the identification of health-promoting compounds in food.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months’ imprisonment, followed by four years’ supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stop a male passenger from bringing a loaded firearm through a security checkpoint at John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) checkpoint Monday.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On July 15, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) announced the execution of state search and arrest warrants at Church Road, Guilford Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania following an investigation by Pennsylvania State Police, ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) and PSP Chambersburg Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of violating federal firearms and explosives laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Total Of 11 Individuals Now Face Federal Prosecution In The Western DIstrict Of New York For Their Roles In Late-May/Early-June Violence During Protests In Buffalo And Rochester.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced the appointment of Matthew Buffington as the new Assistant Director for Communications. Buffington, a career communications professional with more than 15 years of experience, will begin his new position on August 6 at the BLM’s Robert F. Burford Headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that a four-count indictment was unsealed in the Northern District of Ohio charging six men with conspiracy to engage in sexual exploitation of children, sexual exploitation of children, conspiracy to receive visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and conspiracy to access with intent to view child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: Produced and distributed “animal crush videos".
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.4 million grant to the Town of Ridgeland, South Carolina, to make critical water and wastewater infrastructure improvements needed to protect businesses from future floods. The EDA grant will be matched with $847,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men from the San Gabriel Valley were charged today in federal court for allegedly participating in the kidnapping of Ruochen “Tony" Liao, a Chinese national who was violently abducted from a mall parking lot in San Gabriel two years ago, and whose parents were extorted for $2 million in ransom before Liao died from his injuries.
