News from November 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: If your holiday celebrations involve flying to see family and friends, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) encourages you to visit FlyHealthy.gov for updated federal guidance to safely navigate all aspects of air travel during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The final class of commissioning technicians recently completed the classroom portion of their in-depth systems training for operating the Hanford Site ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant. The technicians began their shift work earlier this month to finish the on-the job training...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
Release: In line with USDA’s unwavering promise to serve America’s children well through school meal programs, the department today announced it will publish a proposed rule maintaining flexibility for schools to serve tasty meals their kids will be eager to eat. These proposed changes respond directly to the needs of nutrition professionals who are the experts on-the-ground, hearing from our children every day.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, helped introduce the Protect Our Heroes Act of 2020, a bill that will increase the domestic production of critical personal protective equipment (PPE) like N-95 masks and improve the transparency of the supply and distribution of medical supplies needed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Two people are dead after the Santa Clara County Jail ignored a detainer lodged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and released a dangerous criminal alien back into the community. ICE maintains cooperation with local law enforcement is essential to protecting public...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MEMET BEQIRI, also known as Matt Beqiri, 33, of Tolland, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to two years of probation for fabricating E. coli test results at his meat processing business. Judge Thompson also ordered Beqiri to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: CONCORD - Robert Severance, 61, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to distributing and possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that two sealed indictments returned on November 18 by a federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, have been unsealed. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Five local members of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) international street gang are set to appear in court following charges of conspiracy and murder in aid of racketeering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 23, 2020, Terrance Hawkins, age 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 140 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo for sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ricky Runner, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, has admitted to a firearms violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - A new state-wide, interagency task force focused on combatting unemployment insurance (UI) benefit fraud in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is supporting investigating agencies and encouraging citizens to report suspected UI fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Closure of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site ’s largest building, which once housed 65,000 cubic meters of Cold War weapons waste, is underway and is scheduled for completion next year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Lamario Mills, a/k/a Rio, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 103 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined five of his colleagues to press Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about specific steps the companies are taking to protect against the spread of disinformation ahead of the upcoming run-off Senate elections in Georgia, including Spanish-language election misinformation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: Justice Department Files Disability Discrimination Lawsuit Against Village of Hinsdale, Illinois Under Fair Housing Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: La Junta, CO - Although the Traditional Holiday Celebration at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site was cancelled this year due to precautionary measures, the park staff wanted to reach out to our community and share the experience of one of the park’s most popular annual events.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Durham Attorney Tiffany Dawn Russell, age 41, had her initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers, II, after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her, Rahne Cooper, age 31, and Darius Hinton, age 31, with conspiring to commit bank fraud and other related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Doctor’s Choice Home Care, Inc. and its former executives, Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen, have agreed to pay $5.15 million to resolve allegations that the home health agency provided improper financial inducements to referring physicians through sham medical director agreements and...
