News from August 2021
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
Release: ATLANTA, Aug. 17, 2021 - Low-income Tennessee residents recovering from recent severe storms in three counties - Davidson, Williamson, and Wilson, could be eligible for a helping hand from USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) announced today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dominic McCall, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 140 months of incarceration for his role in a drug distribution operation in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun on the city’s Near North Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: MILWAUKEE, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for DEA Wisconsin, and Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Aug. 13, 2021, Lisa Hofschulz, a licensed nurse practitioner, and Robert Hofschulz, both owners and operators...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A 26-year-old Columbus man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 30 years in prison for participating in a local gang’s racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Guy Joseph Bass, 29, of Vacaville, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A member of the 11 Hunnit street gang from the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 117 months’ imprisonment on his conviction for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A member of the 11 Hunnit street gang from the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh has been sentenced in federal court to 117 months’ imprisonment on his conviction for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) - Due to the rapidly-growing Pine Grove Fire (also called the Hays/Lodgepole Fire), the Bureau of Land Management’s Malta Field Office temporarily closed the Camp Creek Campground, located about 1 mile north of Zortman; and the Montana Gulch Campground, located about 1/2 mile west of Landusky.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The state/FEMA disaster recovery center in Dearborn Heights and the document drop-off centers in Ypsilanti and Grosse Pointe will close permanently at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. In-person assistance from FEMA representatives remains available at five other recovery centers and one document drop-off location in southeast Michigan. Individuals can visit any open center to get the help they need with the federal assistance process.
By State Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of The Gabonese Republic on the 61st anniversary of your independence.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has installed an improved fire suppression system on a one-of-a-kind Savannah River Site (SRS) vehicle that moves high-level waste canisters.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Second Superseding Indictment Identifies Two Additional Assailants in Seven-Defendant Case Involving Attack on Police.
By State Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), House Committee on Armed Services Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL), and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Lead Republican Devin Nunes (R-CA), sent a letter to President Biden expressing their anger...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Ford Corkscrew Fire burning in Stevens County, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bruce Campbell, Chief of the Town of Newburgh Police Department, announced that VERNON E. COPELAND...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Malcom X. Lewis, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 151 months of incarceration for a methamphetamine charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Hayder Lefta, 25, of Manchester, received a 10-month sentence for access device fraud, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Eric Grenier, 39, of Brandon, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that he possessed firearms as a convicted felon. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Doyle ordered that Grenier be held without bail pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice today published an article that details how NIJ-funded researchers created a new way to estimate the age of skeletal remains that outperforms current methods.
