News from August 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Bob Casey (D-PA), and Co-Chair of the House Elder Justice Caucus Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) today unveiled a bill to protect...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Hugo, Okla., Aug. 27-28, at the Hugo Rodeo Arena. The two-day event, featuring 120 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 27. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 27, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Aug. 28. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will offer fall fishing permits for the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2021 fall fishing season begins September 9th and ends November 15th.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: DENVER - FEMA has awarded $3.9 million to the State of North Dakota for a hazard mitigation project on the campus of the University of Mary in Bismarck. The project is designed to protect South Administrative Building and surrounding area against a potential landslide. This area is along a bluff threatened by erosion from the Missouri River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart, announced today that Kevin Shacqile Roney, a/k/a “Kevo," a/k/a “Valentine Roney," 26, of Columbia, pleaded guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: A 34-year old Columbia, Tennessee resident died from injuries sustained by a 100-foot fall while free-climbing with a friend in the vicinity of Twin Arches on August 8, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ralph Hackett, 66, of Clovis, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting mail fraud and agreed to pay $650,000 in criminal restitution for helping another individual submit a fraudulent crop insurance claim for table grapes for the crop year 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the latest climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: At approximately 8:45 PM (ET) on Aug. 1, 2021, a 32-year-old male visitor was last seen fishing from an inflatable kayak in calm water. The victim had a life jacket in the boat but was not wearing it and reportedly could not swim. Shortly thereafter his kayak was seen floating upside down.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - Today, Acting United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that a Dothan, Alabama man has been sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm. On August 4, 2021, 32-year-old Jeffrey B. Wilson was sentenced to 100 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: A mating pair of ospreys made their nest high above the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) Atomic Legacy Cabin about two months ago and the fledglings have hatched.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: (Fort Laramie, WY) Join Fort Laramie National Historic Site on August 14-15, 2021, for a special event entitled Western Encounters. Fort Laramie NHS preserves many stories of the past and present which reflect a diverse cultural identity. For this special event Fort Laramie NHS brings together some of...
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: More information about Jamaica is available on the Jamaica Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Jason John Clipper, aka “Smokey," a member of the East Side San Diego criminal street gang with ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, was sentenced today in federal court to 15 years in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm, possessing methamphetamine and heroin with the intent to distribute, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: This week marks the final series of our Virtual Whole-of-Government R&D Showcase. Our attention to building research, development, and innovation (RD&I) partnerships underscores the broad movement among the global research community that greater collaborations are needed to get ahead of global security...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Two Additional Conspirators Identified, Charges Added in Eighteen-Defendant Conspiracy Case.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
Release: Moderator: Greetings from Washington, D.C. I’d like to welcome all participants to today’s telephonic press briefing, which is being run in coordination with the State Department’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mackenzie Drechsler, 20, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of rioting for her role in violent protests held in the City of Rochester in May 2020, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to serve one year and one day in prison, two years of supervised release, and restitution totaling $8,674, $3,775 to the City of Rochester, and $4,899 to the N.Y. State Attorney General’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: On August 9, 2021, Donna J. Clark, 64, of Benton, TN, was arrested and arraigned on an indictment charging her with wire fraud, money laundering, and operating an unlicensed money transmittal business, commonly known as a “money mule" operation. Clark pleaded not guilty to the charges, and trial has been set for October 5, 2021, at 9:00 a.m., before the Honorable Charles E. Atchley, Jr., in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
