News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Bureau of Reclamation will perform road maintenance around Belle Fourche Reservoir from mid-August through mid-September on Bird Island View Road, CCC Point Road, and roads in the Fruitdale and Gadens Point. Recreation areas will also be closed to the public during road construction and maintenance activities.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Releases mid-year highlights of activity completed thus far.
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: GREAT FALLS - A Great Falls man accused of inducing a minor girl in Pennsylvania to send him sexually explicit photographs of herself admitted to charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today joined Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Alejandra Castillo, Assistant Secretary for Economic Development at the Department of Commerce, for several visits ...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
Release: Nine Research Projects Will Advance Cost-Effective Carbon Capture Technologies
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The first of 12 defendants charged in a stolen mail scheme has admitted responsibility for conspiring to launder money in connection with fraudulently deposited checks, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico - The Children’s Museum in Carolina, will repair its facilities with the help of more than $1.1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). With these funds for permanent work, the museum, which opened in 2011 and has 103 exhibits, will continue its mission to educate and entertain the children who visit it.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: GULF BREEZE, Fla. -- Gulf Islands National Seashore will reopen all areas for day use beginning Wednesday, August 18 at 5:00 a.m.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury convicted an Indiana man yesterday for conspiring with multiple women to send him sexually explicit pictures of infants and young children.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the state of California in combating the Monument Fire burning in Trinity County.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan today to request information regarding reports of concerning irregularities in the Agency’s chemical review program.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: A nonprofit that advocates for purchasing practices that improve the environment recently honored several EM sites and contractors for buying green products that are more energy efficient, less toxic, longer lasting, and easier to recycle.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Just 30 days after President Joe Biden declared a major disaster for Washtenaw and Wayne counties following the June 25-26 tornadoes and flooding, more than $109 million in federal assistance has been provided by FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to support Southeast Michigan’s disaster recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Cut Bank man accused of sexually abusing a minor in the Browning area, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, admitted charges on Monday, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program recently awarded $981,657.52 to Hillsborough, North Carolina-based Device Solutions, Inc. to develop a secure, standards-based, public safety one-way digital paging system. Currently, many emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has settled civil fraud claims against TOWER MAINTENANCE CORP. (“TOWER"), a Long Island-based steel painting company. The settlement resolves the United States’ allegations that TOWER...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, has agreed to pay approximately $2.82 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims for medically unnecessary cardiac catheterization procedures performed by a physician who no longer practices in the Central District of Illinois. Today’s settlement resulted from a voluntary disclosure by Blessing Hospital.
