News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Bayfield, WI - The Sand Island East Bay Dock will be closed beginning Aug. 15, 2021, through the rest of the visitor season to allow for needed repairs. The dock received major damage to the "L" portion of the dock during the early spring of 2019. The repairs will include reinforcing the dock with...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: DETROIT, MI.- As part of a COVID-19 pandemic mitigation strategy, many cities and other local municipalities have allowed restaurants to create or expand outdoor dining spaces onto streets, sidewalks, and parking lots. To ensure that such new dining spaces are accessible and do not impair the ability...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jacqueline Maguire, the Acting Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Miriam E. Rocah, Westchester County District Attorney, announced today the arrest...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Benjamin Stockwell, 31, formerly of Pittsfield, now residing in Florida, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for bank fraud on Tuesday, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Defendant allegedly sexually harassed female residents.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
Release: In the leadup to the United Nations Food Systems Summit in September, U.S. government officials took part in the Pre-Summit Ministerial meeting in Rome July 26-28. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Dr. Jewel Bronaugh led the U.S. delegation in advancing proposals, building coalitions, and seeking solutions to end hunger and poverty and build more sustainable, equitable and resilient food systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Kyion J. Washington, 37, of Shreveport, was sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 46 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today voted against the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reckless tax and spending spree, a filibuster-proof budget proposal that will do long-term damage to our economy. The proposal inched forward in the Senate by a party-line vote of 50-49.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a virtual public information meeting on its proposal to modify the airspace over Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania. Under the proposed changes, existing flight paths would not change but the area where pilots are required to interact with FAA air traffic controllers would expand. The airspace change is to better manage the complexity and volume of aviation activities in the area.
By State Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
Release: Austin Tice, an American journalist and Marine veteran, was abducted in Syria nine years ago this week. Detained at a checkpoint near Damascus, Austin had traveled to Syria to report on the civil war during his law school summer break. He turns 40 years old today, having spent almost a quarter of his life in captivity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced two Huntsville men on drug and gun charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty today to a federal methamphetamine charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Mark Irvello, 56, of Broomall, PA; Stanley Woloff, 58, of Philadelphia, PA; David Abell, 72, of Chincoteague Island, VA; Stephen Kish, 65, of Philadelphia, PA; Rodney Martinez, 50, of Blackwood, NJ; Jesse Fleck, 43...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks man was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to more than eight years (97 months) in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for the possession of heroin and fentanyl with the intent distribute those drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Anthony James Wilson, 28, Baraboo, Wisconsin, is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment alleges that Wilson possessed a loaded.357 caliber revolver on June 3, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - One of the 15 individuals charged as a result of the long-term investigation dubbed the “Woo Boyz" pleaded guilty today to distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Foley, Alabama, man was sentenced on Aug. 10, 2021, to 15 years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ice and possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking felony.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the Labor Department’s actions to modernize unemployment insurance technology...
By State Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
Release: We are deeply concerned that Poland’s parliament passed legislation today severely restricting the process for Holocaust survivors and their families, as well as other Jewish and non-Jewish property owners, to obtain restitution for property wrongfully confiscated during Poland’s communist era. We urge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - Acting United States Attorney Vipal J. Patel and Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley announced today the designation of a special prosecutor to assist with federal gun cases.
