News from May 2020
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) led abicameral letterto President Donald J. Trump urging the administration to take action against financial institutions that discriminate against American energy companies and their workers. The letter was led by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Salem, Oregon man faces federal drug and firearm charges after large quantities of methamphetamine, eight firearms, and approximately $400,000 in cash were found in his residence and nearby storage locker.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representatives Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael T. McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today issued the following statement on violence in Afghanistan...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: BLANDING, UT - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments are increasing recreational access. The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A previously convicted felon was arrested today on charges of illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) has completed an Environmental Assessment (EA) and approved DC Water’s proposed Soapstone Valley Park Sewer Rehabilitation Project. Soapstone Valley Park is managed by Rock Creek Park and is located southeast of the intersection of Connecticut Avenue NW and Albemarle Street NW, extending to Broad Branch Road NW.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and Friant Water Authority seek public input on alternatives to repair a 33-mile stretch of the Friant-Kern Canal in California’s eastern San Joaquin Valley. This stretch of canal has lost over half of its original capacity to convey water due to subsidence-a...
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today approved $1.2 billion in contracts to support American producers and communities in need through the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in reaction to the latest jobs report from the Labor Department...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and associated Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Sonoran Desert National Monument (Monument). The RMP Amendment is being prepared in response to a 2016 Federal court order and the EA analyzes permitted livestock grazing on certain allotments within the Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 65 months in prison for mailing thousands of fraudulent invoices to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices throughout the United States, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Farmington, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) invite the members of the public to participate in one of five virtual meetings regarding the recently published Farmington Mancos-Gallup Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and associated Environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Mexican citizens and a Guatemalan citizen have admitted to reentry charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS), Union Pacific Railroad and the National Park Foundation (NPF) today announced the release of the Junior Ranger Railroad Explorer activity booklet that can be obtained for free from NPS.gov. Issued just ahead of National Train Day and the Golden Spike anniversary...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Nathaniel Brad Moffitt, 40, of Statesville, N.C., was sentenced to 15 months in prison late yesterday for fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in business loans, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell also ordered Moffitt serve two years of supervised release, and to pay approximately $114,000 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Defendant streamed child pornography in Zoom video chat room.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park and Columbia Falls High School announce the completion of the first cabin built through the School-to-Park partnership. This innovative program "creates an authentic learning experience that helps inspire today’s students to positively shape tomorrow’s world and build life skills they can use today," says Jim Foster, park Chief of Facilities Management.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Chad Andrew Carter, 44, (a.k.a. “TopRod") was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents May 5 for possessing approximately 3,077 image files and 469 video files containing child pornography, including images and videos of victims as young as three-to-five years old.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal fraud charge for a romance scam in which he deceived women he met online and elsewhere into investing tens of thousands of dollars into his sham sound design and software companies, only to take the money and spend it on himself.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Greg Ibach today announced USDA will waive certain documentation requirements in the Commodity Specifications for Fluid Milk and Milk Products Eligible for the Milk Donation Reimbursement Program...
