News from July 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Services still available at North Cascades Lodge at Stehekin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the formation of a new Twin Cities Violent Crime Task Force (Task Force) in response to the extraordinary spike in gun violence and violent crime across the Twin Cities. The Task Force brings together additional federal and state resources to assist local law enforcement to investigate, arrest, and prosecute individuals responsible for gun violence in our communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: On Wednesday, Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis along with full Oversight Committee Ranking member James Comer (R-Ky.) called on World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to testify to under oath following revelations that WHO provided false information to Congress about China’s actions in the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Legend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: For Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin. SOUTH BEND - Jerry Harris, age 39, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after being found guilty of conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II. Mr. Harris was...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Nye County, Nevada, counties as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s recent efforts to push schools to ignore public health guidelines and reopen in-person by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Frank Russo, 69, of North Carolina, entered a guilty plea to wire fraud for his role in a scheme to defraud Toyota of more than $4 million, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Previously, Kevin Fluharty, 59, of West Virginia, entered a guilty plea in the same case to mail...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania upholding the Trump Administration’s rules allowing employers to deny health insurance coverage for birth control...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania upholding the Trump Administration’s rules allowing employers to deny health insurance coverage for birth control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Ronald P. Ortega (age: 47) of Dyer, Indiana, was charged via a criminal complaint following his July 6, 2020, arrest by local and federal authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH GRIFFIN, 43, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 138 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the formation of a new Twin Cities Violent Crime Task Force (Task Force) in response to the extraordinary spike in gun violence and violent crime across the Twin Cities. The Task Force brings together additional federal and state resources to assist local law enforcement to investigate, arrest, and prosecute individuals responsible for gun violence in our communities.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash announced that Stephanie F. Kyriazis has been selected as the new Deputy Chief of Resource Education. Stephanie most recently served as the Chief of Interpretation and Education for Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, VT and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, NH.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 10 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Carson, Gaines, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Roberts, Sherman, Terry, and Yoakum counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Octavius White, 26, of Many, Louisiana, pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Mark L. Hornsby, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Phoenix, July 7, 2020 – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey agreed to a collaborative new framework to increase coordination and cooperation for work addressing forest health risks and wildfire across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced $2.2 million in grant funding to law enforcement agencies and stakeholders through the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Program. COPS Office Director Phil Keith announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: Last week, the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice continued its series of hearings on community engagement and held a hearing on accreditation. The hearings were conducted via teleconference and featured expert witnesses who provided testimony and answered questions from the commissioners.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from May 18 through June 10, 2020.
