News from November 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: Liquids aren’t as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska -Homestead National Monument of America invites guests to the Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures, being held Friday, Nov. 27, 2020 through Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021 at the Homestead Education Center, Homestead Heritage Center, and online. The Winter Festival of Prairie Cultures...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: A Tulsa doctor was sentenced today for conspiring with others to unlawfully issue prescriptions for controlled substances, as well as maintaining a drug involved premises at his medical clinic, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey announced today $92,740 in Department of Justice grants to the County of Franklin for adult drug and veteran treatment courts in the Eastern District of Tennessee. The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs have awarded more than $96 million...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: MINERAL, CA- Lassen Volcanic National Park will complete prescribed burning as cool and wet weather continues. Fall conditions facilitate fuel reduction projects by reducing the likelihood of flames spreading beyond pile or prescription areas.“Prescribed fire is a low-risk, proactive strategy to reduce...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Guilford County man arrested on charges of naturalization fraud, and passport fraud had an initial appearance today before United States Magistrate Judge James E. Gates in Raleigh, North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is planning prescribed burning projects for the fall and winter months on public lands in Shasta, Butte, Tehama and Trinity counties. Crews will ignite the pile burns and broadcast burns only when weather and fuel conditions allow for safe and successful burning and smoke dispersion. Smoke may be visible from nearby communities during the projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The final apprehended defendant in a money laundering scheme connected to online romance fraud was sentenced in U.S. District Court here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eleven-count indictment today against Nahed Mishmish, 46, of Bakersfield, charging him with wire fraud, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in a scheme that caused more than $900,000 in losses to the financial institutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Raymond Brewer, 64, of Porterville, was arrested today on a 24-count indictment charging him with wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. A grand jury returned an indictment on Oct. 29, and it was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: Jackson, TN - Jamieson Maurice Esquivel, 27, of Huntingdon, TN has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - With the return of fall weather and rain, the Bureau of Land Management has eased some fire restrictions on public lands managed by its Arcata and Redding field offices in Humboldt, Mendocino, Del Norte, Trinity, Shasta, Butte, Tehama and Siskiyou counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on November 9, 2020, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate Richard Gilbert in connection with a murder-for-hire plot. According to the indictment, Gilbert, who was serving time at a federal prison in Edgefield for trafficking methamphetamine in Bowling Green, Kentucky, sought to hire a hitman to kill the federal prosecutor and a key witness from his Kentucky case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Harrison County residents are facing methamphetamine charges after a grand jury in Clarksburg indicted them on Nov. 3, 2020, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jacqueline L. Krsul, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, was arrested today after an indictment charging her with cocaine possession, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its Hydrogen Program Plan to provide a strategic framework for the Department’s hydrogen research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) activities.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
Release: BANGOR, Maine--The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed a new piece of high-tech checkpoint screening equipment at Bangor International Airport. The new equipment screens passenger carry-on baggage and other items and has the potential to decrease the need for manual searches; whether it is a suitcase, duffel-bag, knapsack, handbag, box, or other items.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Melvin A. Willis to 120 months in prison today. The 50-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to three counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a dangerous illegal alien Friday who was wanted in Colorado on felony charges stemming from a sexual assault on a child. On July 23, the Summit County Sheriff's Office in Breckenridge, Colorado, ...
