News from May 2020
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: There is a 75% chance of near- or below-normal tropical cyclone activity during the Central Pacific hurricane season this year, according to NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, divisions of the National Weather Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Western Pennsylvania residents have been sentenced in federal court on convictions of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - Fire restriction are changing across several jurisdictions within the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire and Aviation Management Unit region, and the public is urged to check with local offices before heading out this weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A convicted felon from Eugene was sentenced to federal prison today for illegally possessing a 20-gauge shotgun, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man who is a previously convicted felon admitted today to possessing a firearm and ammunition in connection with an incident in which he shot another individual, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: Fruita, CO - Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Colorado and Mesa County Public Health authorities, Colorado National Monument is increasing recreational access and services. 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 20, 2020
News Release: Charges Are Pending Against Third Individual.
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: Today, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a final rule that amends its regulations for hunting and trapping in Alaska national preserves, removing prohibitions adopted in 2015 on harvest practices, which are otherwise permitted by the state of Alaska and federal law. This rule provides for Alaska residents who rely on state law to engage in their traditional hunting practices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Laronda Louis, 32, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to a mandatory term of twenty-fourth months in prison and 1 year of supervised release in prison for aggravated identity theft in connection with credit card theft. Louis appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy that distributed at least 15 kilograms of methamphetamine in a three-county area.
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: At the beginning of March, as we worked to get ahead of the COVID pandemic, an amazing thing happened. Congress came together quickly and developed a broad package of measures to provide relief to families, workers and businesses to weather the COVID-19 crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady is asking anyone who has witnessed or experienced sexual harassment by a landlord, property manager, maintenance worker, or anyone with control over housing to report that conduct to the Department of Justice.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an interview on “Outnumbered Overtime With Harris Faulkner" Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed the committee’s Blue Star subpoena vote and continuing oversight efforts.
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference forum today with Greg Burel, former Director of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) from March 2007 until January 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Koreatown man today pleaded guilty to two child exploitation charges for convincing teenage girls to send him sexually explicit images, and then coercing victims to send more with threats of publishing the images he initially obtained.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) announced this week that the March 2020 income over feed cost margin was $9.15 per hundredweight (cwt.), triggering the first payment of 2020 for dairy producers who purchased the appropriate level of coverage under the Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) program.
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 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), and Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Mike Braun (R-IN), Tom Udall (D-NM), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Enzi (R-WY), Tom Cotton (R-AR), ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Polak, 48, of Elma, New York, who was convicted of knowingly causing a licensed firearms dealer to fail to make an appropriate entry in required firearms transfer records, was sentenced to serve one year probation by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: Faces at Least 10 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Western Pennsylvania residents have been sentenced in federal court on convictions of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
