News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: ELKO, Nev.- The California Trail Interpretive Center (CTIC) is set to start the second phase of reopening September 3. Operating hours will now be Fridays and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Moving forward, safety protocols and phased facility maintenance completion will be re-evaluated and adjusted as needed to meet the goal of being opened full-time again as soon as possible.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans sent a letter today to Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ) ramping up pressure for the Majority to “commit to regular order and a robust, open, and transparent process on any matters the Committee on Energy and Commerce considers to meet its reconciliation instructions."
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Update on public input for variance process (9/15/21):.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS - In their ongoing efforts to protect the safety and health of construction workers, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Consulate General of Mexico in Las Vegas today signed an alliance to provide hazard prevention training to Mexican nationals working in Nevada, and help them understand U.S. laws governing workers’ rights and employers’ responsibilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Defendant Used Various Websites, Collected Over $158,000 in Wire Transfers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Sutter Health, a California-based health care services provider, and several affiliated entities including Sutter Bay Medical Foundation (dba Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, and Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation) and Sutter Valley Medical Foundation (dba...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is investing $3.2 million in the state of North Carolina to make critical infrastructure improvements needed to support current and future business needs.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Mark Sirk, an attorney who lives in Keyser, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years of probation for a fraud charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Saturday, Aug. 28, at approximately 4:19 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of an injured non-commercial river trip participant in the Deer Creek Narrows within Grand Canyon National Park. The participant fell approximately 50 feet while on a hike in the narrows and could not be located by members of the river trip.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A former Cook Supervisor at United States Penitentiary Big Sandy, Hank Williams, 56, of Weeksbury, Kentucky, was sentenced Monday to 210 months in federal prison, by Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph M. Hood, following his convictions for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, accepting a bribe by a public official, and using a communication device to facilitate a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Dawuan Na’jee Williams has been indicted on federal charges of making false statements to federally licensed firearms dealers, aggravated identity theft, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - The winds and rains swirl as a Category 2 hurricane approaches the island and evacuees file out of the Virgin Islands Transit (VITRAN) bus and approach the D.C. Canegata Recreation Center to seek shelter. Many of the evacuees are exhausted, with loved ones left behind.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Ever wanted to know how the amazing Milky Way pictures from Dark Sky Parks are created? Ever wanted to catch the Space Station or meteors on camera? Join Agate Fossil Beds' night sky rangers Sunday September 5th from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m for a free seminar on landscape astrophotography! It’s a fun and artistic hobby that almost anyone can enjoy, without expensive telescopes and tracking mounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been charged in federal court with making materially false statements in the acquisition of more than 20 firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for infrastructure upgrades needed to boost offloading capacity...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to Mosaic Technologies, Cameron, Wisconsin, to install more than 70 miles of broadband fiber optic cable in Barron and Washburn counties...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Nasir Sharpe was sentenced to 18 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school and playground, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: Sutter Health and Affiliates to Pay $90 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Mischarging the Medicare Advantage Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2021
News Release: MIAMI, Fla. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of State today announced a new reward for information that will lead to the location, arrest, and/or conviction of People’s Republic of China (PRC) national Jian Zhang, a key leader of a transnational criminal organization known as the Zhang Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO).
