News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: FARSON, Wyo. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that EWS-RSCI, LLC of Gillette, Wyoming, was awarded a $14.5 million contract to make improvements to Big Sandy Dam and Reservoir. The project will help meet a portion of the existing irrigation demand and help secure the water supply in the Farson/Eden areas of the Eden Project by raising the spillway crest of the dam and increasing the water storage.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Birmingham, AL - A fugitive on the run since 2017 after being found guilty of felony murder was arrested without incident early this morning by the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lowell Begay, 38, of Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 16 to involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN GRINNELL, 36, of Lakewood, Ohio, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 19, 2021, a federal jury convicted Kent Lowery Booher, 64, of Harriman, Tennessee, a registered sex offender, of multiple sex crimes involving minors. Booher, a disbarred criminal defense attorney, was found guilty of enticing and attempting the enticement of a minor for sex...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Starting on Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 at 10am Alaska Standard Time, visitors planning trips to Denali National Park and Preserve (Denali) summer will be able to reserve one of a limited number of Teklanika Road Permits via www.recreation.gov. This exciting opportunity for private vehicles to access usually...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Steven Edwards Moncrief, a Temecula resident and former president of the Riverside chapter of the Peckerwoods Motorcycle Club, was sentenced in federal court today to 180 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Committee Vice Chair Jimmy Gomez, Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Gerald E. Connolly, National Security Subcommittee Chairman Stephen F. Lynch, Committee Member Rep. Katie...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Two Eastern Panhandle residents were sentenced today for their roles in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Catherine D. Perry sentenced Bernard Toler to 72 months in prison today. The 33-year-old St. Louis County, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in January, to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A federal grand jury in Sherman, Texas, returned a superseding indictment charging two Texas men with engaging in wage fixing and obstructing a federal investigation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested and removed a convicted rapist and public safety threat from the United States to Mexico, Wednesday.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm yesterday joined college students from around the world to announce the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon-a collegiate competition that challenges the next generation of building professionals to design and construct...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Wilson had prior convictions for sex offender registry violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Howard County Physician Falsely Billed Externally-Applied Acupuncture Device, For Which Medicare Does not Reimburse, as a Surgical Implantation - Which Medicare Reimburses at $6,255 per Procedure.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. DRL Syrian Women’s Participation in Transitional Justice Processes. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007883. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced a Markup this Wednesday followed by a hearing in the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment titled, “Sustainable Wastewater Infrastructure: Measures to Promote Resiliency and Climate Adaptation and Mitigation." Additional details on the subcommittee hearing, including witness testimony and a livestream, can be found here once available.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - April is National Stress Awareness Month and the residents of the state of Louisiana have experienced their fair share of stress in the past year -many Louisianans are struggling to recover from the successive blows of hurricanes Laura, Delta, Zeta and the severe winter storms on top...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: Defendant stole 17 firearms from West Springfield gun shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Bruce Holder, age 55, of Grand Junction, was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl and Counterfeit Substances, Distribution of Fentanyl Resulting in Death, Distribution of Fentanyl, and Distribution of a Counterfeit Substance after a 11-day jury trial in Denver, Colorado.
