News from September 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
Release: ERIE, Pa. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Erie International Airport (ERI) detected a.380 caliber handgun in a carry-on bag of an Erie County, Pennsylvania, man earlier today, Sept. 17. It was not loaded.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal indictment charges BOBBY CHRIS MAYES, 48, CHARLES GOOCH, 61, and COURTNEY WELLS, 35, all residents of Norman, with 25 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, issuing forged securities, and aggravated identity theft, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Former Veterans Affairs Doctor Pleads Guilty to Three Civil Rights Offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Department of Energy (the Department) formally announced it has re-established its Arctic Energy Office in Fairbanks, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: FBI Offers Reward of up to $10,000 in Fatal Arson Case in Warm Springs.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Cochran, Dawson and Lynn counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $10.2 million grant to the Leon County Research and Development Authority, Tallahassee, Florida, to build a 40,000 square-foot, high-tech business incubator...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - United States Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced today that Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been awarded $79,180 in Department of Justice grants for State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Martin, 36, of Horseheads, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to receipt of child pornography, following a prior conviction. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from the second phase of the experimental Small Business Pulse Survey. Data collection began Aug. 9, 2020. Results will be released weekly starting Aug. 20 through Oct. 15, 2020. The second phase includes questions on the core concepts from the first phase...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today the unsealing of two indictments returned by a federal grand jury in Erie, Pennsylvania, charging the leaders and members of separate drug trafficking organizations - one based in Erie and the other in Warren and Crawford Counties - with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KENDALL FAIR, 21, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A $500,000 federal grant to YWCA of Northeast Kansas will help the agency serve victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair of the Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States, wrote to two key Trump administration officials today seeking more information about the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) attempt to open all BIE-operated...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -JULIO CESAR RIVERA ROJAS, age 33, a resident and citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2020 to 18 months in the Bureau of Prisons after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by U.S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo of the Eastern District of Louisiana, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Adam Rogas Allegedly Raised $123 Million from Investors Using Financial Statements that Showed Tens of Millions of Dollars of Revenue and Assets that Did Not Exist.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A doctor of osteopathic medicine who formerly worked at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Beckley, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today to three counts of depriving veterans of their civil rights under color of law by sexually abusing them.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: SILT, Colo. - As a result of recent cooler weather and increased moisture, the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office and the Eagle County portion of the Kremmling Field Office, along with Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin Counties will revert from Stage 2 to Stage 1 fire restrictions on Friday September 18.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 17, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Nebraska counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Burt, Douglas and Washington counties who suffered losses caused recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
