News from April 2021
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is advising visitors to be aware of changes to water access points and boat launch areas on Lake Powell this year due to declining water levels through the summer. According to the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) forecasts for 2021 and 2022, Lake Powell water levels will continue to drop.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Victoria Pease, 32, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to time served following her guilty plea to a charge that she distributed heroin laced with fentanyl. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss ordered that Pease immediately begin serving a three-year term of supervised release. Pease must also be on location monitoring for six months.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Virtual Ceremony April 20, 2021 at 11:00 am.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Friday afternoon to Dr. Peter Daszak with EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) requesting information and documents that could be useful to a comprehensive investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Ran and fought with cops while being arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 14, 2021, the Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a seven-count indictment charging Jose A. Pabón-Sanabria, 50 yrs. old, of Caguas, Puerto Rico, with willfully attempting to evade and defeat the payment of a substantial portion of the employment taxes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: A Sioux City man who smuggled goods into the United States pled guilty April 15, 2021, in federal court in Sioux City.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Rep. Jody Hice, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, introduced The Performance Enhancement Reform Act to ensure key stakeholders and resources are not left out of the creation...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: I write to encourage the U.S. Department of Education (“Department") to take steps to ensure that K-12 schools and institutions of higher education (“IHEs") are addressing instances of harassment on the basis of race or ethnicity, including those targeted at Asian-American and...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
Release: The government of Morocco has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of fresh eggplant (Solanum melongena) for consumption into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced today a Notice of Sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Earlier this week, an Indictment was unsealed charging six defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme to fraudulently acquire personal protective equipment and event tickets, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Co-owners of a New Hampshire asbestos abatement company have been charged and agreed to plead guilty to making false statements to employee pension plans.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces that it will temporarily close the San Pedro area in Santa Fe County from April 20 through May 2, 2021, for site cleanup.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Also Ordered to Pay Restitution of $194,573.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Wareham man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston yesterday to possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - The main entrance road to Valles Caldera National Preserve will be temporarily closed to public vehicle traffic April 19th for final road improvement treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man previously convicted in Rhode Island state court on felony drug charges and awaiting trial in state court on additional assault and firearm charges, has been detained in federal custody on unrelated drug trafficking and weapons charges, following an ATF and Providence Police investigation that determined the man was allegedly delivering fentanyl to customers in Massachusetts, at times trading for firearms as payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Preferred Pain Management & Spine Care, P.A. (PPM) and its owner, Dr. David Spivey, have agreed to pay $789,292.95 to resolve civil allegations that PPM violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug testing (UDT) between June 1, 2014 and May 24, 2017, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Hairston.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed a 37-year-old Salvadoran national wanted for aggravated homicide in El Salvador and turned him over to law enforcement authorities there, April 9.
