News from August 2021
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Winnemucca District recognizes the importance of the Black Rock Desert Playa to recreationalists and is taking precautionary measures to manage activities and protect natural resources in the area this summer. Publication of the Federal Register notice regarding temporary restrictions on Aug. 18, started the restrictions that will continue through Oct. 31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: WACO - A Dallas man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay $341,520 in restitution for conspiring to commit identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: An inmate at a Georgia prison has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in federal prison after admitting he distributed child pornography while incarcerated for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Luis Amed Colon Molina, 42, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of life.
By State Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) have released the following, highlighting how many of the Biden Administration’s talking points on the Russian malign influence Nord Stream 2 pipeline project don’t hold up. McCaul and Risch aim to set the record straight with the facts...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
Release: LAS VEGAS - Voting is underway in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) 2021 Cutest Canine contest and the public is invited to help the agency select which of its working canine is most deserving of this title.
By State Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following "myth vs. fact" sheet to highlight a number of the Biden Administration's discredited talking points on the Russian malign influence Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. Risch and McCaul aim to set the record straight with the facts :
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Troy, Ill. - A Madison County businessman who failed to submit payroll taxes will be spending the.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
Release: WORCESTER, Mass. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared to start screening passengers once again at Worcester Regional Airport (ORH). Massachusetts’ second largest airport will reopen for business on Thursday, Aug. 19, after being closed for more than 10 months.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Beginning this week, all paved roads and parking areas within Rocky Mountain National Park will be striped. Work is expected to last three weeks and should be completed by September 4, weather and resources permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: 130 Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Officers Executed Largest Federal Warrant Operation in Anderson County History.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: As wildfire fronts advance through landscapes or communities on the ground, they also attack from above, launching volleys of glowing embers into the air. Also known as firebrands, these specks of burning debris can glide for up to 40 kilometers (approximately 24 miles) before landing and can cause up to 90% of home and business fires during wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Russell Merritt, 41, of Celoron, NY, who was convicted of theft from a labor union, was sentenced to serve two years probation and ordered to pay restitution totaling $50,850.21 by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina M. Rhett DeHart announced today that a Federal Grand Jury has charged former Westinghouse Electric Company Senior Vice President Jeffrey A. Benjamin for his role in failing to truthfully report information regarding construction of new nuclear units at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will begin a habitat improvement project along approximately 0.7 miles of the Yampa River through Pleasant Valley beginning Aug. 23 and lasting about a month. During construction, portions of Routt County Road 18 will be closed on weekdays but will remain open on weekends starting at 5 p.m. on Fridays, including Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6. The road will close again on Monday mornings at 7:00 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Moab Field Office is accepting comments on proposed supplementary rules to improve camping opportunities, require use of a portable or established toilet for human waste, and prohibit wood cutting and collecting in the Klondike Bluffs Mountain Bike Focus...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding confirmation that states are not required to allow mask mandates in schools as a condition of receiving American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I. man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to firearms trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vance Andres Raymond, 24, of Fruitland, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug. 17 to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country. Raymond is currently in custody pending sentencing.
