News from June 2020
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Eagle Lake Field Office has resumed issuing firewood cutting permits for BLM-managed public lands in Lassen County. Permits will be issued by mail while the office lobby remains temporarily restricted to public access.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Charles Jones, 27, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 41 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michele Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi. Jones was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A federal grand jury has indicted a Rochester, Ill., man, Chase Brown, 20, of the 1000 block of Heathrow Lane, Rochester, Ill., on fraud charges for allegedly operating a medical equipment reseller business that defrauded businesses from various states of more than $250,000. Brown...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man has been arrested on charges that he participated in a riot in Atlantic City on May 31, 2020, following a day of otherwise peaceful protests, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today, Antonio Wooden, 23, Indianapolis, was charged today with Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Fugitive from Justice and Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by an Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Alan Longmore was secretly recording minors engaged in sexual acts.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
Release: Service Provides Curated Resources and Expertise for Innovators in Fight Against Coronavirus
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzes how federal agencies use infectious disease modeling to help guide decisions to fight outbreaks and how these models can be improved. The report was requested by Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in 2017 after learning about challenges with infectious disease modeling during the Zika outbreak at a hearing.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) urged Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) to hold a hearing on bridging the digital divide in a letter sent today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzes how federal agencies use infectious disease modeling to help guide decisions to fight outbreaks and how these models can be improved. The report was requested by Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in 2017 after learning about challenges with infectious disease modeling during the Zika outbreak at a hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: On June 3, 2020, a National Park Service search crew located the body of the presumed drowning victim in the Warm Creek area in Lake Powell, in Kane County, Utah. The victim has been identified as Dustin Olague, a 30-year old male from Flagstaff, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Three men were arrested Wednesday and charged today for conspiring to and setting fire to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department patrol vehicle during a protest in Las Vegas, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Patrick Gorman of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to participate in an online public engagement meeting on the travel and transportation planning process for the Horsethief Mesa Travel Management Area (TMA). The TMA is north of Arroyo Hondo, N.M., on the east rim of the Rio Grande.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Infrastructure: The Road to Recovery."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the economic effects of supercharged unemployment benefits...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington D.C. - U.S. House Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on President Trump’s new executive order that waives bedrock environmental laws including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Endangered Species Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed rule titled “Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzes how federal agencies use infectious disease modeling to help guide decisions to fight outbreaks and how these models can be improved. The report was requested by Energy and Commerce Committee leaders in 2017 after learning about challenges with infectious disease modeling during the Zika outbreak at a hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that William Britt Harvey, 45, of Lecompte, Louisiana, was sentenced on June 3, 2020, by Senior U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to serve two years in federal prison and three years of supervised release following his prison term...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2020
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Ill., man, Ca’Quintez Gibson, 26, has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with using the internet to incite rioting in Peoria beginning on May 31 and ending June 1, 2020. Peoria police officers arrested Gibson last night and he appeared in federal court this afternoon...
