News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Springdale man was arrested yesterday for receiving and possessing material depicting the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A former federal training officer has admitted assaulting a fellow Customs and Border Protection employee at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Ga.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
Release: The U.S. team mediating the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Boundary negotiations, led by Ambassador John P. Desrocher, will travel to Lebanon on May 3. The U.S. team will mediate talks between representatives from the governments of Israel and Lebanon on the disputed maritime boundary, beginning May 4. The resumption of talks is a positive step towards a long-awaited resolution.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Salina, Kansas, for drainage and road improvements to allow for business expansion. This EDA grant, to be matched with $939,200 in local investment, is expected to create 225 jobs, retain 1,200 jobs, and generate $600 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Chicago for allegedly trafficking firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: LURAY, VA - Shenandoah National Park’s annual “Youth Art in the Park" wildflower art contest has a new twist this year ~ it’s gone virtual! Instead of mailing artwork to the park as in previous years, young artists will upload their entries to an internet platform.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - KIRA LANE. On April 28, Kira Lane, 54, was sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to pay $233,681.25 in restitution for access device fraud. Lane operated a catering business where he processed credit card transactions. During 2015, he used stolen credit card numbers for approximately...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement on the 50th anniversary of Amtrak...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Ohio Emergency Management Agency announced today that $19,082,588 in federal funding has been made available to Kettering Health Network for costs related to the state’s response to COVID-19 under the federal disaster declaration of March 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - On April 30, 2021, a state jury in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma convicted Dr. Regan Nichols of one count of second degree murder in relation to the death of one of her patients. Nichols was originally charged with five counts of second degree murder in relation to the death of at least five patients during her time working at a Midwest City clinic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Roseburg, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District released an Environmental Assessment (EA) for proposed fire recovery activities on BLM-administered lands within the Archie Creek Fire perimeter. The EA analyzes the potential environmental effects of salvage harvesting timber in fire-affected stands and removing hazard trees along roadways and near private and BLM-developed facilities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on the Environmental Analysis (EA) for an Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) proposal to burn about 53,000 acres of wildlands in the Alphabet Hills near the West Fork, Gulkana and Susitna Rivers to improve wildlife habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN COLON, 29, formerly of Meriden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Clifford A. Bullock, 71, of Nottingham, was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for transportation of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is accepting applications from eligible organizations for fiscal year 2022 funding for five export market development programs. FAS recently published the FY 2022 Notices of Funding Opportunity for the Market Access Program, Foreign Market Development Program, Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program, Quality Samples Program and Emerging Markets Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Swampscott financial advisor has agreed to plead guilty to defrauding an elderly victim and her bank by stealing the victim’s retirement assets.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- FEMA awarded over $11M to Alaska to reimburse the operation of COVID-19 testing sites in Anchorage, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Trenton Switzer, age 40, of Gypsum, CO pleaded guilty for willfully making and subscribing a false tax return.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2021
News Release: Director of Media Relations Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726.
