News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town today announced that more than $163 million in Department of Justice grants is available to help communities address America’s addiction crisis.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) Units of Western Pennsylvania which include Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Flight 93 National Memorial, Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Friendship Hill National Historic Site and Johnstown Flood National Memorial are offering weekly Facebook Live videos featuring each park unit starting March 31.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: In response to guidance from the White House and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Park Service (NPS) announced additional modifications to operations at Big South Fork NRRA and Obed WSR in order to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Corbin Kauffman, age 31, of Lehighton, Pennsylvania, was charged on March 27, 2020, by a criminal information with interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another. Kauffman was originally charged by a criminal complaint on April 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced a new effort to investigate and punish wrongdoing related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Department of Justice, in response to a March 23, 2020 Executive Order signed by the President, has created a task force charged with addressing hoarding and price gouging associated with COVID-19.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management Support (LMS) contractor has met the requirements for outstanding safety and health programs.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today took a major step forward toward reintroducing supersonic commercial air travel with a proposed rulemaking to set noise certification standards for new supersonic aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: A Lubbock man has pleaded guilty to robbing Lubbock’s City Bank and Aim bank, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Hot Springs, AR - Thermal water service will be temporarily interrupted to repair a main water line on Bathhouse Row. The thermal water jug fountains on Reserve Street and Hill Wheatley Plaza will be turned off Wednesday, April 1and Thursday, April 2 to allow park staff to make needed repairs. Service will resume Friday, April 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The former chairman of the Blackfeet Tribe today was sentenced to 10 months in prison and two years of supervised release along with being ordered to pay $174,000 restitution for his role in an overtime pay scheme that stole federal funds from the tribe’s Head Start child assistance program, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Springdale, UT - A Utah man was cited for BASE jumping in Zion National Park over the weekend. He and his two companions, also from Salt Lake City area, were also cited with camping out of bounds and violating a raptor nesting closure.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide up to $22 million for research aimed at achieving breakthroughs in the effort to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn man was arrested today for allegedly coughing on FBI agents while claiming to have COVID-19, and with lying to them about his accumulation and sale of surgical masks, medical gowns, and other medical supplies, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District authorized the 3 Bars Ecosystem and Landscape Restoration Project in central Eureka County, northwest of Eureka, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Arrests Suspect in Tohajiilee, New Mexico Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS- A Harlem man who admitted strangling his dating partner on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 23 months in prison and to two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: CARSON CITY, NEV. The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Sierra Front Field Office has prepared the Fish Springs Ranch Utility Lines and Access Road, Preliminary Environmental Assessment to analyze the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of authorizing the construction of access roads...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: All Overnight Shelters and Privies on Lands Administered by the.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: Bayfield, Wisconsin - Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in response to guidance from Bayfield and Ashland Counties and Wisconsin Department of Health Services, is supporting federal, state, and local efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Most park staff are currently teleworking from home. Seasonal employees and volunteers are being delayed and asked to stay at home rather than travel from across the country to work in the park.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding reports that Prime Minister Victor Orbán of Hungary is using the coronavirus pandemic to pursue greater executive powers:
