News from May 2020
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 45-year-old Houston man has been ordered to prison in Corpus Christi federal court following his conviction for transporting an undocumented Chinese national, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released a new video and poster for employers and workers on how to properly wear and remove a respirator.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: First in the nation to be charged with fraudulently seeking CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Loans.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - Current and forecasted weather coupled with dry conditions have prompted the BLM’s Royal Gorge Field Office to implement fire restrictions on BLM-managed lands in four counties in eastern Colorado. Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect Wednesday May 6, 2020 on BLM lands in Custer, Fremont, Huerfano, and Las Animas counties.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: The Team Awareness Kit (TAK) is a digital tool that greatly enhances coordination and collaboration among response teams. This innovative solution enables tactical data to be generated, visualized, and securely shared. The tool facilitates daily operations for public safety organizations and allows different organizations that don’t regularly communicate to seamlessly come together and maintain shared tactical awareness during a disaster or special event.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - When Highway 399 reopens this week, Gulf Islands National Seashore will implement its annual effort to protect nesting shorebirds. Efforts will include lowering speed limits to 25 mph on Hwy. 399, installing radar speed signs and speed humps, and increasing speed limit enforcement patrols. All measures are meant to provide nesting shorebirds and their chicks the best chance to survive through the nesting and fledgling process.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder woman who admitted stabbing a man in the upper chest with a butterfly knife on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation last year was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments through May 21 on an Environmental Assessment of Mindfulness Rainforest Adventures’ request for a Special Recreation Permit to conduct guided hiking tours on the Carlanna Lake Trail in Ketchikan.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Fire managers with the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire and Aviation Management Unit are planning to burn up to 46 acres of Bureau of Land Management administered lands 18 miles south of Grand Junction later this week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: “The U.S. Attorney’s Office joins President Trump and the Department of Justice in observing Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Awareness Day. Together we remember all of the women and girls tragically lost from our Native communities in New Mexico and across the United States.
By State Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Administration’s appointment of Ambassador Ronald J. Gidwitz as Acting Representative of the United States to the European Union...
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Salvadoran gang member Friday, who was removed on two prior occasions and is wanted for homicide in his home country. He was turned over to Salvadoran law enforcement authorities upon his arrival in El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Scott Falk, 36, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for violating the court-ordered terms of his supervised release. Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess ordered that Falk serve an additional 18 months of supervised released following the completion of the new sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Seven leaders of a drug trafficking organization distributing crack cocaine and methamphetamine throughout Indiana County, Pennsylvania were arrested and charged federally with drug trafficking, following an investigation by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Seven leaders of a drug trafficking organization distributing crack cocaine and methamphetamine throughout Indiana County were arrested and charged federally with drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Defendant Charged with Conspiring to Transport Over 100 Kilograms of Cocaine to the United States.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced during a virtual press conference that USDA is investing $23 million for three recipients in New Mexico to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas. These investments are part of USDA’s round one investments made through the ReConnect Pilot Program.
By Commerce Newswire | May 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 Northern Wyoming Community College District (NWCCD) in Sheridan, Wyoming, to improve and expand Northern Wyoming Community College’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Arkansas Man Charged with Traveling to Missouri with Intent to Have Sex with Minor.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2020
News Release: Gulf Breeze, Fla. - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Gulf Islands National Seashore is increasing recreational access in Florida. 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.
