News from September 2020
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CRATER LAKE, OREGON - Crater Lake National Park has issued a Level 1 Evacuation Notice for the entire park effective at 12:00 Noon, Sept. 10, 2020. The Level 1 notice informs residents and visitors to “be ready" for a potential evacuation, including employee dormitories and trailer sites, in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman announced today that 18 individuals were charged for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy which involved the illegal distribution of cocaine, crack, heroin, fentanyl, fentanyl analogues and other drugs in the Youngstown-Warren area, including providing a substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-William Gregory Douglas, 38, of Cave Junction, Oregon, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison today and three years’ supervised release for threatening to shoot YouTube employees at the company’s San Bruno, California headquarters after his account was removed for violating the video-sharing platform’s terms of service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today that two brothers were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with wire fraud conspiracy for their alleged participation in a scheme...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: The Cameron Peak Fire moved into Rocky Mountain National Park on Saturday, September 6, and has encompassed approximately 7,050 acres in the Cascade Creek, Hague Creek and Mummy Pass Creek drainages in steep thick beetle killed forests with significant standing dead trees as well as dead and down fuels. Fire activity will again be diminished today due to low temperatures and precipitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pled guilty today to a federal charge related to the trafficking of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Andrew Martin Hopkins, 57, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and Routt County Riders invite volunteers to a National Public Lands Day event at Beall Trailhead on September 26 to improve Beall Trailhead near Steamboat Springs. The trailhead is on public land managed by the BLM in the Emerald Mountain area, a day-use recreation area for mountain biking, hiking, and horseback riding.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing on “Enforcing the Ban on Imports Produced by Forced Labor in Xinjiang" on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, at 12:00 PM EDT.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Miles City Field Office has published a Notice of Realty Action and is seeking comments on the Intake Campground Recreation and Public Purpose patent.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that two Maine school districts will receive a total of $703,982 from the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP). Nationally, the COPS Office...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on her vote to oppose the Senate Republicans’ harmful and partisan COVID-19 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Attorney General William P. Barr and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Timothy J. Shea announced the results of Operation Crystal Shield, a DEA-led effort targeting the command and control elements of Mexican cartels that operate major methamphetamine “transportation hubs" throughout the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: Acting Secretary Wolf released the following statement on Microsoft’s announcement today which can be found here : “Protecting our elections is a team effort with the federal government and the private sector joining together to thwart foreign malign actors. Today’s announcement from Microsoft reaffirms ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: As communities across America continue to re-open with COVID-19 safeguards and prevention measures in place, the Department remains focused on ensuring communities are protected from fraudulent COVID-19 products and from individuals who seek to exploit the system.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: DHS Enforcing Critical Identification Requirements to Protect the Homeland WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS or the Department) is announcing that after more than 15 years since Congress passed the REAL ID Act, all 50 states are now in full compliance issuing these cards, with most ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2020 – To further the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) work on the Agriculture Innovation Agenda (AIA), USDA today announced it is seeking public- and private-sector input on the most innovative technologies and practices that can be readily deployed across U.S. agriculture.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that low-income Iowa residents in 10 additional counties recovering from the effects of the derecho storm that hit the Midwest in August could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP). The agency also provided an extension for current SNAP households to report storm-related food loss and receive replacement benefits.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds rural communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Laura that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters. USDA staff in the regional, ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: ReConnect Funding to Connect 1,302 Rural Households to High-Speed Broadband WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2020 – The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing more than $2 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in North Carolina. This investment is part of the $100 million Congress allocated to the ReConnect Program through the CARES Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department today issued a supplement to its Feb. 2, 2015 Business Review Letter from the Antitrust Division to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Incorporated (IEEE) (“the 2015 Letter”). The 2015 Letter analyzed proposed revisions to the IEEE’s Patent Policy of that same ...
