News from April 2021
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - DOE ’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) will avoid millions of dollars in costs and accelerate cleanup thanks to a project that broke ground last week at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Lee Murray, age 49, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release on one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, reintroduced the Healthy Families Act, paid sick days legislation to help keep workers, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an Indonesian citizen Thursday who, following a federal investigation, was convicted in New York of selling millions of dollars in counterfeit wine to affluent clients over nearly a decade.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a subcommittee hearing on H.R. 1884, the Save Oak Flat Act. This legislation, sponsored by Committee Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), would prevent any mineral development in the Oak Flat area and repeal a land exchange that was previously enacted by Congress and signed into law by former President Barack Obama.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant was the director of advanced research at a Massachusetts biotechnology firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Rhode Island man was arrested this morning on federal charges alleging that he defrauded investors out of more than $4.2 million in connection with “Magic Mike Live," a stage show at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas based on two Magic Mike films that chronicle the life of a male stripper.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Eddrick Wright (25, Auburndale), Kaylob Davis (23, Auburndale), and Amere Benjamin (22, Auburndale) each to 14 years in federal prison for brandishing firearms while they were robbing convenience stores in Lutz and New Port Richey. The court also ordered the defendants to forfeit the firearms and make restitution to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Allen and Heidi Woodcock, owners and managers of rental properties in Oil City, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Committee Member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’s Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, issued the following statement in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to temporarily lift the medically unnecessary in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Curtis Davis, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to drug distribution, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bobbi Jo Starry, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a sex offender registry charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Come explore the Santa Fe National Historic Trail and discover two centuries of trail history through a variety of activities hosted by National Park Service (NPS) partners to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Patrons of two Amtrak stations in the Southern District of Illinois may be eligible.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announcing more than $330 million in specialty crop block grants, incentivizing the purchase of fruits and vegetables, and help for textile mills, as well as updates on the Dairy Donation Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Brian Jacob Taylor, 34, of Mount Lookout, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm. A federal grand jury indicted Taylor in February 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - A convicted felon caught carrying a firearm during a traffic stop in Lowndes County, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to his crime, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Lakeview, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Lakeview District will be performing aerial herbicide applications across 8,622 acres of the 2020 Brattain Fire starting April 12, 2021, and is expected to be completed by April 24, depending on weather conditions.
By State Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the lower house of the Somali parliament voting to extend President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s term by two years...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Congressman Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) re-introduced the bipartisan and bicameral Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (ACMRA) to create a single website on which Congress and the public can easily search, sort, and download all agency congressional reports. This bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives in the 116th Congress unanimously.
