News from August 2021

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Linda Expose, 56, of Salida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office announces that beginning today, it will offer an authorized fuelwood harvest at the Gorham Scout Camp near Cundiyo, N.M., to minimize further residual, dead and down heavy fuels from previous thinning activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The United States Attorney’s Offices in the Districts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced today that they have reached agreement with twelve skilled nursing facilities in Rhode Island and Massachusetts operated by Genesis...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Jacqueline Maguire, the Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of JESUS CONCEPCION, a/k/a “Mr. C.," for enticing four minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Facilities denied admission to patients prescribed Opioid Use Disorder treatment.

By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy Subcommittee Lead Republican Mark Green (R-TN) and Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL) joined Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and members of the Leader’s Advisory Team on Cuba for events with Miami’s Cuban exile and human rights community to demand support for Cuban freedom from the Biden Administration.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Modesto residents Genaro Serrato Calles, 49, and Antonio Valencia Hernandez, 65, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Robert Lefebvre, 59, of Manchester, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine base and fentanyl with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.

By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield proposing further action by the United States government to respond to the increasingly concerning situation in Belarus.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Jackson County man was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Illinois man was sentenced today to 10 months in federal prison for sending a threatening message through social media to a West Virginia law enforcement officer.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2021
News Release: Gang Members Allegedly Plotted the Retaliatory Killing of Shatavia Walls at the Louis H. Pink Houses in July 2020.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2021
News Release: On Saturday, September 4, and Sunday, September 5, Shiloh National Military Park will present cannon firing demonstrations in commemoration of the Labor Day weekend. The scheduled demonstrations will be presented by the Shiloh Cannon Crew, firing a 6-pounder gun, across the street from the park visitor center.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2021
News Release: Denver, CO, August 8, 2021-"Phytochemicals, Postharvest, and Human Health: The Next Chapter " is the title of the 2021 Agricultural Research Service Benjamin Y. Morrison Memorial Lecture, presented today by Penelope Perkins-Veazie at the annual meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Bloomfield, Michigan, businessman, who operated a biodiesel fuel company, was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for filing a false income tax return.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2021
News Release: The search for missing backpacker Cheri Keller resolved today at approximately 11:00 am when King County Sheriff’s Office Guardian II helicopter spotted her off trail in a basin to the east of Mt. Steele. The helicopter was able to land in the basin and transport her to Sanderson Field Airport in Shelton. Keller was transported in stable condition by ambulance to Mason County Hospital for evaluation.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I join the people of Côte d’Ivoire as they celebrate their Independence Day.
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2021
News Release: Today we somberly remember the terror attacks that took place on August 7, 1998, in Kenya and Tanzania. Nearly simultaneously, terrorists detonated bombs next to the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Their attacks killed 224 men, women, and children, and injured over 4,500 others. In an awful ...
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2021
News Release: President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo’s decision on August 6 to ban the last genuine opposition party from participating in the November elections underscores their desire to remain in power at all costs. This autocratic maneuver follows the detention of seven presidential candidates ...

By Tamara Browning | Aug 7, 2021
Virtual public meetings are scheduled in line with a public comment period in preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Kitty Hawk Offshore Wind Project offshore North Carolina.