News published on Federal Newswire in December 2021

News from December 2021


Absconded human smuggler receives more time for possessing firearms

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 30-year-old Rio Grande City resident has been ordered to federal prison for possessing multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: Since 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) has collaborated with the Dolores River Restoration Partnership (DRRP) and the Southwest Conservation Corps (SCC) to treat a 4-mile stretch of the Dolores River for noxious weeds. The river stretch runs through LM-managed uranium-lease tracts along the river in southwest Colorado.


News Release: Bowling Green, KY - A federal grand jury in Bowling Green returned an indictment today charging a Bowling Green man with two bank robberies.


Suspect Who Allegedly Murdered Police Officer Captured by Marshals Task Force

News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of Lorenzo Clark for 2nd Degree Murder.


Bloods Gang Members Plead Guilty to Racketeering

News Release: Defendants Admitted Their Roles in Murders on Long Island, Attempted Murders and a Kidnapping.


News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Stephen Autry has been sentenced for his role in organizing online groups where men posted child pornography. Autry created a group on an internet site that encouraged participants to “share pictures and videos of all things taboo," including incest.


News Release: Washington, D.C-Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the New York Times reported that Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, “hinted on Tuesday that the Biden administration may need to ask Congress for more money to fight the coronavirus pandemic."


The US Commerce Department published a nine page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


National parks in Maryland and West Virginia to reduce white-tailed deer populations this winter

News Release: WASHINGTON - Catoctin Mountain Park, Antietam and Monocacy national battlefields, and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Harpers Ferry national historical parks will conduct deer management operations in 2022 to protect and restore native plants, promote healthy and diverse forests, and preserve historic landscapes. Operations will take place at Harpers Ferry from Jan. 1 to March 31, 2022 and at all other parks from Feb. 1 to March 31, 2022.


News Release: Washington, D.C-Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the New York Times reported that Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, “hinted on Tuesday that the Biden administration may need to ask Congress for more money to fight the coronavirus pandemic."


Peters, Hawley, Hassan, Daines & Portman Bipartisan Bill to Ensure Federal Agencies Can Quickly and Securely Adopt Cloud Technology Advances in Senate

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Rob Portman (R-OH) to update and authorize the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has advanced in the Senate. The bill would ensure...


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bureau of Land Management Rangers and Special Agents, alongside various law enforcement partners, eradicated more than one-million marijuana plants and close to 180,300 pounds of processed marijuana this year from illegal grow sites statewide on BLM lands as part of the California Department of Justice’s annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) program.


The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, John Hoeven (R-ND) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) that would help recruit, develop and retain highly-skilled cybersecurity professionals in the federal workforce has passed the Senate. Agencies across the federal government face growing cyber threats, but struggle to hire and retain qualified cybersecurity employees.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Additional defendants charged with trafficking young girls for sex

News Release: HOUSTON - Three more people have been indicted and additional charges filed in human trafficking conspiracy involving young runaway girls on what it known as the “Blade," announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


The House of Representatives section of the Congressional Record published “MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE” on Dec. 9.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Amends Kentucky Major Disaster Declaration

News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today that President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional federal emergency aid available to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding and tornadoes beginning Dec. 10, 2021.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.