News from August 2021
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
Release: 44 Projects Will Drive Innovations in Building Materials, Lighting, and Heating and Cooling Systems
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today the sentences and upcoming sentence of defendants who were indicted in multiple cases and convicted for their participation in a methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana ring...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) released a request for information on multi-spectrum laser protective eyewear that meets the needs of law enforcement and emergency response agencies. The technologies will be included in a market survey conducted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Duus, age 35, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 11, 2021, to 120 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for using the internet to attempt to entice a 12-year-old minor female to engage in prohibited sex acts.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Bedrock Fire burning in Nez Perce County, Idaho, and on the Nez Perce Reservation.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Bill Text | One-Pager | Section-by-Section Summary
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago convicted a man of illegally possessing a semi-automatic handgun in Evanston after he tried to flee from police in a car and on foot.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - John Morgan McComas, 25, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. McComas was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Carlos J. Izquierdo-Carrero with obstruction of justice and two counts of failure to obey Captain of the Port Orders related to a boat charter business Izquierdo-Carrero operated from La Parguera in Lajas, PR, to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Three men formerly employed at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina were arrested today on charges of bribery of a government official. Calvin Alfonza Jordan, 64, Edward Wade Crisco, 59, and Stephen Paul Sabato, 50, were charged via indictment with Jordan also charged with money laundering.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued updated guidance to help employers protect workers from the coronavirus. The updated guidance reflects developments in science and data, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's updated COVID-19 guidance issued July 27.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Dinosaur, CO & Jensen, UT - The Yampa Bench Road in Dinosaur National Monument has fully reopened after significant damage from a recent thunderstorm forced its closure.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Palm Springs, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to review the environmental analysis and land use plan amendment for a proposed 500-megwatt photovoltaic solar project on 2,700 acres of public lands near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park (ZION) is beginning civic engagement to seek comments on a possible change in amenity fees associated with the Lava Point Campground and a day-use permit lottery to hike the one-half mile (0.5-mile) chain section of Angels Landing. A twenty-dollar ($20) nightly fee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Denton man has been indicted on federal sex offender registry violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and U.S. Representative Glenn "GT" Thompson, Ranking Member, House Committee on Agriculture are asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) update of the Thrifty Food Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Tory Deshawn Jackson, 42, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 32 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for his involvement in a scheme to commit credit card fraud. Jackson was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $409,769.56.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced to 33 months in Prison for Possessing Molotov Cocktails at La Mesa Protest.
