News from December 2021
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - As the Hanford Site prepares for the start of operations to treat tank waste for disposal, workers are upgrading a number of facilities to ensure they are ready to support around-the-clock operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Harvard University Professor Convicted of Making False Statements and Tax Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Old Town man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man and an Essex County, New Jersey, woman are charged with committing four robberies and two shootings on a single night in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a pilot program in select cities where ICE law enforcement officers will begin to wear body worn cameras for pre-planned operations.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - More than three-months after remnants of Hurricane Ida ripped through Connecticut communities, more than $34 million in direct federal assistance has been disbursed to help individuals, households and businesses on their road to recovery. State, federal, volunteer, local and community partners remain committed to Connecticut disaster survivors with damage and losses from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky.- A Lexington man, Jeffrey Robinson, 35, was sentenced to 360 months in federal prison on Monday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: You can sign up for the STEM Rising newsletter, which brings you a monthly update on the latest science, technology, engineering and math opportunities and resources. STEM is core to the Department’s workforce and cutting-edge energy innovation. The newsletter highlights STEM outreach activities at DOE...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s speech outlining the Administration’s latest efforts to respond to the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: ORLAND, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s 111-year-old East Park Dam recently received inspections and modernization of the dam gates. The reservoir and surrounding parklands closed last August to allow for the dam inspections when the reservoir level was at its lowest since 1977 due to drought conditions making these structures accessible.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An Attleboro man was convicted on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, by a federal jury in Boston of offenses related to firearms trafficking.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Many institutions of higher education are not taking the threat of China seriously. A recent report by the Foundation For Defense of Democracies (FDD) makes clear that Confucius Institutes (CIs) are not the only way the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) is trying to gain a foothold in the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Oversight and Reform Committee Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) sent a follow-up letter to the Secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL) Marty Walsh to reiterate numerous concerns about DOL operations, including how the majority of DOL employees have yet to return to in-person work and that the Secretary himself has spent little time in Washington, D.C.
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Strengthening Fundamental Freedoms and the Rule of Law in Bahrain. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008416. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Robinson, age 32, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 20, 2021, to 15 years’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for production and possession of child pornography. The sentence also includes a 15-year term of supervised release, which will follow the term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Courtland Renford, 22, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of rioting, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: Elorza sold roughly three pounds of meth in March of 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Holly Christine Jenkins, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Solicitation is now open for U.S. small businesses to submit research proposals for a broad range of 11 homeland security technology needs.
