News from December 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) allocated over $7.2 million to the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) for repairs to wastewater treatment and water pumping facilities in Humacao and Las Piedras.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A California man was indicted yesterday on a charge of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: The Ortega-Murillo regime has announced it has severed diplomatic relations and ended official contact with Taiwan, but the sham election on November 7 did not provide it with any mandate to remove Nicaragua from the family of American democracies. Without the mandate that comes with a free and fair...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire roofing contractor was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with failing to report income from his roofing and siding business to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. The New Hampshire Department of Justice was awarded $89.997 to administer PSN grant funds in the District of New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Macon resident with prior felonies taken into custody on state warrants while in illegal possession of a gun was sentenced to prison this week for violating federal gun law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: $532,348 awarded to fiscal agents for districts in Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency was awarded $172,353 to administer PSN grant funds in the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to three years and two months in prison for a federal gun crime.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act to protect Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Reservists...
By Bob Martin | Dec 9, 2021
In response to sexual assault allegations made by Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai pertaining to a Chinese government official, the Women’s Tennis Association has announced that it is suspending its tournaments in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Joshua Obed Altruz, 26, of Bethlehem, PA, was sentenced to 14 years and one month in prison, five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and restitution by United States District Judge Edward G. Smith for committing two armed robberies on February 6, 2020.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. I’m especially pleased to have Foreign Minister Huitfeldt here. Anniken and I have had an opportunity to talk, to see each other at some multilateral meetings, but it’s great now to have this opportunity to spend time together here in Washington. So welcome, first of all, to the State Department. Welcome to Washington.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: The Department of Defense is proud to support President Biden’s Summits for Democracy through programs that bolster democratic norms and further the professionalism of military and security forces in partner nations.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on their efforts in the federal government to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination, Mark Johnson, Deputy Director for Business and Regulatory Affairs at Ohio Environmental Protection...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Josef Jarvis, age 32, of Albany, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon at the Albany International Airport on Aug. 16, 2021.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On December 9, 2021, Breanna Cierra Sluder, 27, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 30 years by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded more than $17.5 million in grants to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program. Funding will support efforts across the country to address violent crime, including the gun violence that is often at its core. Wichita State University was awarded $167,483 to administer as fiduciary agent for the PSN program for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas.
