News from June 2020

By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
Release: The U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, honored three DSS personnel for rescuing a local man from drowning in six-foot waves off Monrovia’s Atlantic coast, an area well known for a lack of natural harbors and hazardous currents.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Dr. Gary Hartman, Dr. Arnold Berger, and Dr. Paul Berger, of Virginia Beach, have agreed to pay a combined $30,000 to settle allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act (“Act") by issuing and filling prescriptions with no legitimate medical purpose.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Mineral, CA - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Lassen Volcanic National Park is increasing recreational access and services. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Justin. E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that a federal grand jury in Cleveland has returned separate indictments against two men in the Ashtabula area on charges of illegal drug and firearm possession. These are separate cases and are not related.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Kula, Maui - The National Park Service (NPS) is following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, as it continues to increase recreational access and services.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The head of the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA), Stephen M. Dickson, today affirmed that the Boeing 737 MAX will only return to service following the completion of a comprehensive and rigorous review process.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - DWAYNE EDWARD RASMUSSEN, 56, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to three life sentences for committing three bank robberies in Oklahoma City and Chickasha, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.

By US DOT Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s markup of surface transportation reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2):

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney Lawrence Keefe today encouraged residents across.
By State Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his role in orchestrating an Autotrader fraud scheme that caused over $575,000 in losses to the victims.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: A Mexican national has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for trafficking nearly a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Erin Cameron, 28, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, 100 grams or more of heroin, and 10 grams or more of fentanyl, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a fine of $5,000,000.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Manuel Flores, age 42 of El Paso, faces a federal charge of posting a threatening communication over the Internet, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Luis M. Quesada, El Paso Division.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 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 in response to the updated report on testing and demographic data associated with COVID-19 the Trump Administration submitted to Congress recently as required by the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: Study: Slower Growth & Higher Taxes for More People in Biden Tax Hike.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - For the third week in a row after conducting COVID-19 surveillance testing on Yellowstone employees, all tests came back negative. On June 10, health officials from Park County, Montana, tested 165 employees from the National Park Service and concession companies operating in...

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: The Census Bureau today released new data from the experimental Household Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey is the result of an effort by the Census Bureau and other federal statistical agencies to document temporal trends in how individuals are experiencing business curtailment and closures, stay-at-home orders, school closures, changes in the availability of consumer goods and consumer patterns, and other abrupt and significant changes to American life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A federal grand jury indicted Stephen T. Parshall, aka “Kiwi," 35, Andrew Lynam, 23, and William L. Loomis, 40, all of Las Vegas, for violations of federal law for conspiracy to cause destruction during protests in Las Vegas and possession of an unregistered destructive device, specifically, a so-called “Molotov cocktail.".

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentencing of Willie Powell, 31, of Tallahassee, Florida. Powell has been sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison after being convicted at a jury trial of possession of a firearm by ...