News from October 2020
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a set of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on how N95 respirators effectively protect wearers from coronavirus exposure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: CHICAGO - John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced that the city of Chicago will receive $1 million from the Department of Justice to test and track sexual assault kits.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued their Fiscal Year 2021 Phase II Release 1 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) with approximately $105 million in available funding. The following DOE Office of Science program offices are participating in this FOA...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Donnie Gale Leggett, Jr., of Brandywine, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on LoneStar Produce Express LLC (LoneStar), San Antonio, Texas, for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that Clayton Hall, 40, and Gregory D. Franklin, II, 43, both of Cleveland, were sentenced by Judge Donald C. Nugent to 30 years imprisonment each. A jury previously found both defendants guilty of drug trafficking and found Franklin guilty of firearms crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. and WARSAW – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and Poland’s Secretary of State for Strategic Energy Infrastructure Piotr Naimski discussed the signing of the first Intergovernmental Agreement to cooperate on the development of Poland’s civil nuclear power program. This 30 year Agreement, the first of its kind, represents an enduring energy bond between the United States and Poland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Utah-based cocaine trafficker was convicted on Thursday following a two-day trial in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Ryan Milholland, 50, formerly of Daphne, Alabama, was sentenced today in federal court on a charge of distribution of child pornography. Miholland pled guilty to the charge in June of 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was arrested Oct. 18, 2020, for threatening to injure a federal judge, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: As a federal statistical agency, the U.S. Census Bureau welcomes open discussions about our work and the methods used to produce our statistics.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) hosted DHS Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and other current and former DHS leaders (myself included) at a virtual summit: the Third Annual FFRDC...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiating a Section 230 rulemaking process...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: Mohammed Ibrahim Ahmed was in Federal Custody andServing a Sentence for Material Support of ISIS at the Time of his Current Plot to Recruit Terrorists.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered small and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with natural disasters has not done many struggling businesses any favors.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: SUGAR HILL, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with Choate Construction Co. and the Associated General Contractors of Georgia to promote worker safety and health at the Dogwood Forest at Sugar Hill project site in Sugar Hill, Georgia. The Georgia Institute of Technology-Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program will also support this effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - DEA is holding its 19th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 24 at locations across the country. The nationwide event aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - United States Attorney Michael Bailey announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Sean Lokey will lead the efforts of his office related to the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the general election on November 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today awards of more than $2.5 million in Department of Justice grants to fight drug abuse and addiction in the District of South Carolina. The grants were awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and are part of more than $341 million going to communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart recognized Agent Cody McClung with the Wood County Sheriff’s Department and Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Pat Lefebure today for their outstanding work in partnership with his office.
