News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), member of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, co-hosted an event ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the city of Springdale, Arkansas, to support business growth by improving roadway infrastructure needed to ease the movement of commercial traffic. The EDA grant, to be matched with $1 million in local funds, is expected to create or retain 125 jobs and generate $14.6 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 29-year-old Tyler, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two men from Irving, Texas were charged Thursday for their role in forcibly assaulting a federal officer.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
Release: Public can help eradicate pest WASHINGTON, March 5, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is working with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to combat the Mexican fruit fly ( Anastrepha ludens) in Cameron and Willacy Counties in Texas. Following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was charged today in a Criminal Information with conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle over $1 million of UAW dues money, to furthering racketeering activity, and to evading taxes announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two men from Irving are set to appear in court for assaulting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Circle K, a Texas corporation that operates convenience stores nationwide, has agreed to resolve civil allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a federal law that requires retailers of pseudoephedrine to place the product so that customers do not have direct access to it and to keep a logbook of sales, agreeing to pay $248,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jamarhi Raheem Lucas, 23, of Natchez, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to possessing a machine gun, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint charging JEFFREY COLIN PURDY, 28, with making threatening communications. PURDY made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Hildy Bowbeer in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. PURDY was ordered to remain in custody pending a formal detention hearing, which is scheduled for Monday, March 9, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Cincinnati, Ohio man, Edvey L. Belton, 32, was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, to 216 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A southern California man who owned and operated local compounding pharmacies has been indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations that he submitted dozens of fraudulent patient attestations in support of reimbursement claims to CVS Caremark, a national pharmacy benefit manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Guido Modano, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (“DOJ OIG"), announced today the unsealing of a Complaint in Manhattan federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced LEMEYON WALKER, 30, of Elizabeth City to 41 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. WALKER was named in a single-count Indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: LAPWAI, Idaho - Nez Perce National Historical Park’s Spalding visitor center resumes 7 days-a-week operation on Sunday, April 5. Current visitor center operations are 5 days a week Tuesday through Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday. Stop by the visitor center 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. to watch the park film, view museum artifacts, and learn more about Nez Perce culture.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: Effigy Mounds National Monument is honored to present artist, activist and musician Reuben Ironhorse-Kent, speaking on Ioway Images Then and Now, a discussion of the stories embedded in images and art. Mr. Ironhorse-Kent’s presentation will take place at 1:00pm, both Saturday and Sunday, March 14th and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on an Environmental Assessment for installation of an outdoor electrical pedestal on the grounds of the BLM Campbell Creek Science Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - CATHOLINE HAMMETT, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, was indicted for bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 5, 2020 - Farmers and ranchers may apply to enroll grasslands in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands signup beginning March 16. The signup runs through May 15.
