News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Flandreau, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Fall has arrived at Zion National Park. The following provides an overview of upcoming seasonal opportunities at Zion Lodge, operational changes in the national park that will occur in November and December, and important considerations for fall and winter visits to the park.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Borden County, Texas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 121,500 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Today, a federal district judge in Ft. Lauderdale sentenced defendant Sebastian Ahmed, 42, of Delray Beach, Florida, to a term of 210 months’ imprisonment and restitution in the amount of $ 4,231,288 following his conviction after a six-week jury trial of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, five counts of health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and eleven counts of money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Vontia Jones, 39, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,319,278 in restitution by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for obtaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Woonsocket, R.I. man has been charged with trafficking victims to engage in prostitution.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: BASSETT, Neb., Oct. 30, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $3.1 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Nebraska. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced Byron Hubbard to 60 months in prison. The 30-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: West Tennessee Psychiatrist Sentenced for Unlawfully Distributing Opioids.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Sometimes insects show signs of monster-behavior.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Sam Graves (R-MO) sent a letter to U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comptroller General Gene Dodaro requesting the agency...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today urging him to work collaboratively with New York University (NYU) researchers in their effort to improve transparency and accountability in political advertising.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Weir Farm NHS would like to thank and congratulate all of the artists who entered this year's Virtual Art in the Park Contest and Exhibit! Artists from all over were encouraged to celebrate art in the park by submitting an image of a piece of artwork inspired by or made at Weir Farm.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Grand Junction, Colorado - In support of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mission to sustainably manage wild horses and burros, the agency announced today that it is seeking contractors to provide corral space for excess animals gathered from public rangelands in the West. The BLM will award contracts...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jeremy Sanuel Hooten, a/k/a Jeremy Samuel Hooten, age 19, of Eufaula, Oklahoma entered a guilty plea to Robbery In Indian Country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2111...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Benton County, Arkansas, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Justin Wenger, 38, Monticello, Wisconsin pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 42 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, for possession of ammunition as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2020
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - United States District Judge Rodney Sippel sentenced Heather McDorman to 288 months (24 years) in prison today. The 32-year-old Barnhart, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to five counts of producing child pornography and two counts of attempting to produce child pornography.
