News published on Federal Newswire in July 2020

News from July 2020


Hiker Dies on Siyeh Pass Trail

News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [July 28, 2020] - On Monday, July 27 at 4:45 pm Glacier National Park received a report that a man had collapsed and was unresponsive on the Siyeh Pass trail, approximately one mile from the trailhead at Siyeh Bend.


News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. - This week marks the 30thAnniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA). The ADA was signed into law on July 26, 1990, and is the nation’s preeminent civil rights law for providing access and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Tonight July 29, 2020, at approximately 20:30 hours, the United States Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, along with ATF, Shelby County Fugitive Apprehension Team, and Memphis Police Department, arrested Terrell Darnell Jones (DOB:05/31/1991) at a residence near the 2700 block of N. Watkins.


Alleged Chicago Gang Leader Among 23 Defendants Charged in Federal Drug and Gun Investigation

News Release: CHICAGO - The alleged leader of the Black Disciples street gang in Chicago is among 23 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into drug and gun trafficking on the city’s South Side.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and Possession of Stolen Firearms.


News Release: House Democrats are pushing partisan child care legislation that spends billions of taxpayer dollars recklessly, places more burdensome requirements on child care providers, and denies support for certain eligible providers.


Release: Overview. World War II began in Europe with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on Sept. 1, 1939. Between 1939 and mid-1941, Nazi Germany occupied western Poland, while the Soviet Union, by agreement with Nazi Germany, occupied eastern Poland. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, bringing ...


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Two Portsmouth men were was sentenced to a combined 21 years in prison for their respective roles in a family-run heroin-trafficking organization in which members trafficked at least one kilogram of heroin throughout Hampton Roads and sold handguns, rifles, and shotguns with their drugs.


Walden Applauds E&C Republican Leadership on Nuclear Energy Bills

News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Republican members continued their efforts to create innovative policies and promote clean energy by introducing two bills to strengthen domestic nuclear fuel supply and accelerate nuclear reactor licensing.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA), Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Lamar Alexander...


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking several questions related to the companies’ app stores and processes undertaken to vet applications, particularly for foreign sourcing and potential ties to the Chinese Communist Party.


Bridgeton Man Indicted for Armed Carjacking that Resulted in the Death of Female Victim

News Release: St. Louis - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Anthony D. Jones, Jr., 28, of Bridgeton, Missouri, for his role in the May 4, 2019 carjacking and death of victim Jessica Vinson. The indictment charges Jones with carjacking resulting in death, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death, felon in possession of ammunition, felon in possession of a firearm, and witness tampering.


Lame Deer Man Sentenced to Prison for Assaulting Woman

News Release: BILLINGS - A man who admitted injuring a woman by hitting and punching her during a fight in Lame Deer in 2017 was sentenced today to six months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.


News Release: Jones sold heroin, fentanyl, and valeryl fentanyl to the victims.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Aberdeen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.


News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kurtis Walter, age 27, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to serve 78 months in prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albany Field Office.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOSEPH GATT, age 75, a citizen of Canada and Malta, was arrested on July 26, 2020, in Los Angeles, California after previously being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Louisiana with ten counts of wire fraud...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the House's passage of H.R. 7575, Water Resources Development Act of 2020.


Pallone, Walden, Scott, Foxx, Alexander, Murray Joint Statement on White House Surprise Medical Billing Report

News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-Ore.), House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement on the White House’s call for Congress to pass legislation ending the practice of surprise medical billing...