News from September 2020
By State Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Dear Deputy Inspector General Shaw: As the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, we request that you launch an immediate inquiry into the Department of State’s processes and determinations surrounding Secretary of State Pompeo’s August...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Threats Mailed From State Prisons to Chambers of Federal Judge, Offices of U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Kevin Phomma, 26, of Portland, has been charged by criminal complaint with civil disorder, a felony, after assaulting several police officers with bear spray during an unlawful assembly on Aug. 26, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Today, Reclamation announced water supply increases for the benefit of water users and wildlife refuges in the Klamath Project in view of modest improvements in hydrology during the late summer and operational adjustments described below.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s acquisition of 1,120 acres in the Lower Blackfoot River drainage secures permanent public access to the land. Using $868,000 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - ANDREW TYLER MOLINA. On Aug. 31, Andrew Tyler Molina, 31, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for transporting and shipping child pornography. Tumblr, a social media app popular amoung teenagers, reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, that a user, Mr. Molina...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Clinton Towles, 39, has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the sentence today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released work-related injury and illness data electronically submitted by employers. The agency has posted Form 300A data for calendar years 2016, 2017 and 2018, as well as a data dictionary.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
Release: SEATTLE - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport detected two firearms Friday morning during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on luggage at the security checkpoint.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) August 2020 jobs report...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson released the following statement regarding the situation with United States ethanol imports to Brazil...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Two armed probationers caught breaking into multiple cars in a north Macon neighborhood have both been sentenced to federal prison, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Mountain View, Missouri, man has been sentenced in federal court for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YAMIL DIAZ, 48, formerly of Alabama, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: A man who sexually exploited children in the Philippines was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) will direct more than $18 million in grant funding to Texas to support efforts to curb domestic violence throughout the state, announced U.S. Attorneys Erin Nealy Cox, Ryan K. Patrick, John F. Bash, and Stephen J. Cox.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Republican Leader Jackie Walorski (R-IN) and Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) introduced the Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act to provide additional support for older foster youth, grandparents and other kinship families, home visiting for at-risk pregnant and parenting families, foster care prevention services, and other child welfare services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jermol McCoy, age 37, of Catonsville, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl. At the guilty plea hearing yesterday, McCoy also admitted that he committed this crime while on supervised release for a previous federal drug conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2020
News Release: Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and consistent with North Carolina’s “Safer at Home Phase 2.5" executive order, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial are reopening three indoor...
