News from September 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Andre Ricardo Briscoe, a/k/a Poo, age 37, of Baltimore and Cambridge, Maryland, with federal drug distribution charges, use of a firearm to commit murder in relation to the drug trafficking crimes, killing a witness to prevent communication with law enforcement, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park is excited to announce that park visitors can, once again, have the unique experience of talking with a park paleontologist while they work on fossils in the demonstration fossil laboratory. The laboratory is currently viewable Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 9 am to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris on Tuesday convicted a Browning man of sexually abusing a minor girl on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - United States Attorney Scott C. Blader announced today that two individuals have been charged with attempting to damage and destroy by means of fire two commercial buildings during the civil unrest that occurred in Madison, Wisconsin on Aug. 25, 2020. Anessa Fierro, 27, and Willie Johnson, 45, both of Madison, are charged in two-count complaints filed in U.S. District Court this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - Two Bowie County, Texas, men have been sentenced for drug trafficking crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jonathan David Cochran, of Barrackville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for committing two armed robberies at local hotels, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) signed a formal agreement with Schneider Electric as the first equipment manufacturer for DOE's Cyber Testing for Resilient Industrial Control System program (CyTRICS). CyTRICS...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: By Alex Hendrie. Americans for Tax Reform . Published Sept. 22, 2020. The IRS has released 2018 Statistics of Income (SOI) data. This data shows that middle income American families saw the biggest tax cut - measured as the percentage decrease in "total tax liability" between 2017 and 2018 - from...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -- Saleem Abdul Muhammad, age 55, of Prince George’s County, Maryland pleaded guilty today to bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: A Plano man has been convicted at trial of attempting to entice a 12-year-old girl at Sheppard Air Force Base, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York man was arrested today after travelling from New York to New Jersey to meet an individual, whom he believed was a 13-year old girl, for sex, U.S Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Arthur Davis, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his part in an illegal firearms distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2020 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) today announced that a harmless airborne fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum strain TC09 (TC09), can dramatically accelerate plant growth if a germinating plant is near the fungus as it emits volatiles or gases.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s latest hearing with members of the COVID-19 task force, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Committee, gave a detailed rundown of the Trump Administration’s failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic-from its lack of urgency to its abundance of political interference.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: GEFS now uses the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) dynamical core that was similarly added to the Global Forecast System model in 2019. With today’s upgrade, the National Weather Service can deliver first-ever numerical weather predictions three and four weeks in advance, providing more lead time for decision making than ever before.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: MACON - Three defendants guilty of distributing methamphetamine in the Northeast Georgia region, arrested during the large-scale “Operation Wu Block" investigation, were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: MACON - Three defendants guilty of distributing methamphetamine in the Northeast Georgia region, arrested during the large-scale “Operation Wu Block" investigation, were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday, said Charlie Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: Federal, county and local law enforcement officials today announced that 46 individuals were charged for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved the distribution of heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and fentanyl in the Marion area. 43 were arrested during an early morning takedown. The operation is ongoing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man was sentenced to federal prison today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Robert Lamar Bates-Porter, 33, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 154 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl.
