News from June 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: As a gentle breeze rustles the grass, a perky black-eyed Susan stretches toward the sun, hoping to attract the attention of industrious bees in search of pollen. Growing near a Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act (UMTRCA) disposal cell, the very presence of this small wildflower is a testament to the care the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) provides at managed sites across the country.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Brady’s Return to Work Bonus Proposal Gains Steam.

By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has again reopened the comment period on the protocols for regulating and deregulating pale cyst nematode (PCN)-infested and associated areas. APHIS initially accepted comments on the protocols March 1, 2019, and ...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Bryce Canyon National Park has begun modified shuttle services.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. The Bureau of Land Management is conducting the Medusahead control project to restore of rangeland invaded by annual grasses (Medusahead rye and Cheatgrass). The project goals are to reduce susceptibility to wildfire and promote healthy landscapes adjacent to Greater Sage Grouse Habitat in the Humboldt Range.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Key West, Fl. -- Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office announced that three People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign nationals were sentenced today to prison terms for illegal photography of military installations at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Key West, Florida (NAS Key West).

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: At Thursday’s virtual briefing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis - which dealt with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on America’s minority communities - Republican members of the committee took a hard look at the effect that prolonged lockdowns around the country have had on minorities and emphasized the need to reopen our economy.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, June 5, 2020 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of a request from South Dakota to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households. This approval will allow South Dakota to expedite the implementation of...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest of Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Santiago Villalba Mederos.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a formal Record of Decision (ROD) for the safe shipment and disposal of depleted uranium oxide from former gaseous diffusion plants in Portsmouth, Ohio and Paducah, Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Scott T. Singstock, D.D.S., has agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act by writing illegitimate prescriptions for controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today. Dr. Singstock, who during the course of...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A North Dartmouth woman was sentenced today in connection with her role in obtaining cocaine from Puerto Rico through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Defendant involved in shootout in downtown Denver.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Critical Materials Institute (CMI) announced up to $4 million in funding to address challenges in establishing domestic supply chains for critical materials with specific emphasis on industrial relevance, participation, and adoption.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 57-year-old former bank president has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: National Park Service News Release. Contacts:. Deborah Coble, NPS South Atlantic-Gulf Region, 907-280-8739. Jody Mays, Andersonville National Historic Site, 229-924-0343. Gia Wagner Named Superintendent of. Andersonville National Historic Site. ATLANTA - Today, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Shawn J. Forte, 28, of Mescalero, New Mexico was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico on June 4 to 10 months in prison for assaulting federal officers in the performance of their official duties.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Nikolai Hall-Andujar, of Front Royal, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy that brought hundreds of grams of the drug from Baltimore to Front Royal between 2015 and 2018. United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Jesse R. Fong, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Washington Field Division made the announcement today.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today condemned the Trump Administration’s efforts to advance its radical agenda against women’s reproductive health under the guise of the United Nation’s humanitarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In...