News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Response Team, along with the Minneapolis Police Department, Minneapolis Fire Department, Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are now seeking persons of interest into several Minneapolis locations that were set ablaze during recent unrest.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Welcome to today’s hearing. Before we start, I think it’s important again to note what’s going on all around us, and that is the acknowledgement of racial injustice that has gone on for far too long in this country. I certainly support those who are speaking out and making their voices heard in a peaceful...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Tuesday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota, and Subcommittee Chairs Jim Costa of California, Stacey E. Plaskett of the Virgin Islands and Filemon Vela of Texas relayed concerns with the implementation of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: EM made steady progress in its cleanup mission after most field sites moved into an essential mission-critical operating posture beginning in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to offer 77 parcels, totaling approximately 114,049.77 acres, at the September competitive oil and gas lease sale. The parcels are located in Juab, Sanpete, Sevier, Emery, Duchesne, Grand, Uintah and San Juan counties on public lands managed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 20 years’ imprisonment and 6 years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: There will be temporary 20-minute delays along the Moose-Wilson Road near the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve from 11 a.m. -4 p.m. on Monday, June 15, as well as trail closures between the Preserve Center and Phelps Lake. The Lake Creek, Woodland and Aspen Ridge Trails will be closed, as well as the Phelps Lake Loop south of Huckleberry Point and south of the junction with the Boulder Ridge Trail, between 7 a.m.-5-p.m. on Monday, June 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Richard W. Moore, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announced today that a Mobile woman has been charged by criminal complaint with obstructing, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement during the course of a civil disorder that affected interstate commerce. Tia Deyon Pugh will make her initial appearance in United States District Court today at 10:30 a.m. before Magistrate Judge P. Bradley Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Pomona, California, woman was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in Jasper County, Missouri.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor in support of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which would fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau reissued its June 5 statement to include additional updates related to field operations for the week of June 8. The Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in additional...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed their 5G Upgrade Order to provide clarity to American wireless providers so they can more quickly deploy 5G infrastructure across local communities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: In 2012, Texas-based FWS special agents uncovered a substantial trafficking organization smuggling thousands of protected living rock cactus from the Big Bend region of West Texas. The cacti sold for as much as several thousand dollars apiece on the black market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Threatening Communications was sentenced on June 8, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Pollution and Pandemics: COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Environmental Justice Communities:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Pollution and Pandemics: COVID-19’s Disproportionate Impact on Environmental Justice Communities:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Phuong Tang, 40, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty today to placing envelopes containing a white powdery substance on his coworkers’ desks at the Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Healthcare System, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: Recently our nation was rocked again by the senseless and unjust death of George Floyd. This incident highlighted the systematic challenges facing the black community in America. I join those who have raised their voices to protest the deadly brutality imposed on George Floyd and other instances of shocking, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court for robbing an Arvest Bank using a modified flare gun, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2020
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Zachary Alexander Karas of San Diego was charged with possessing incendiary devices known as Molotov cocktails at a protest that began on May 30th in La Mesa.
