News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sabrina Burton, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and the United Kingdom.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pressed Loren AliKhan and John P. Howard III, nominees to be Associate Judges for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Adrienne Jennings Noti, a nominee...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: CASA GRANDE, Ariz. - A Phoenix area man was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in prison for attempting to smuggle ammunition from the United States into Mexico, following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS) assisted in this investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has an immediate need to employ residents of Louisiana as temporary local hires to assist with disaster response and recovery efforts. Local hire employees are local residents who aid in the recovery of the community and help their fellow citizens in the recovery process. Apply for this exciting opportunity!
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - A Westfield, Indiana man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a years-long scheme to defraud the ophthalmology practice where he worked.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the top Republican of the Senate Finance Committee, led a press conference with other Republican Senators to highlight the hypocrisy of Democrats’ plans to increase the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap, a gigantic deduction for the rich living in high-tax states.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui-The Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park will remain open this weekend from 9 am to 5 pm.The Maui Department of Public Works road closure along Hāna Highway has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s markup by slamming Committee Democrats for prioritizing a bill to create more bureaucracy and emphasized the American people are more concerned with skyrocketing inflation, broken supply chains, soaring...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: Good afternoon. My name is Karen Chandler, and I am the Director of the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (or WRA) within the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. I am honored to participate in today’s UXO Caucus event.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Panamanian Intermediary Pleads Guilty in Connection with International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ivan Carmona-a 30-year-old man from Springfield, Massachusetts-was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Burlington, Vermont. The three-count indictment charges the defendant with assaulting a Border Patrol Agent...
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
Release: In coordination with international allies and partners, today we are taking additional measures to raise the cost on Alyaksandr Lukashenka and his regime for their ongoing attacks on democracy, human rights, and international norms, and for their brutal repression of Belarusians both inside and outside ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is requesting assistance in locating persons responsible for burglary and theft of government property within the park. Sometime between 3 p.m. Nov. 28, and 11 a.m. Nov. 29, individuals broke through a closed gate on Washington State Route 410 at the intersection of Crystal Mountain Boulevard. The suspects continued into the park to the White River area, damaged multiple facilities, and destroyed and stole government property.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul released a statement on the Women’s Tennis Association’s (WTA) announcement of plans to suspend all WTA tournaments in China. This decision comes following the suspicious disappearance of PRC tennis player Peng Shuai after she accused a former...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: Was Present at a Residence When One of His Friends was Shot.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Yesterday, in a speech on the Senate floor, former pre-school teacher and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted how the historic child care and caregiving policies in the Build Back Better package would lower costs for working families, help get people back to work, and keep our economic recovery on track.
By Bob Martin | Dec 2, 2021
A process to remove derogatory names of geographic features in the U.S. has been established by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a release by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Mississippi resident for healthcare fraud and conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Derrick Jackson.
