News from February 2021
By DOE Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Three environmental science undergraduate students at Colorado Mesa University (CMU) in Grand Junction, Colorado, presented their senior capstone project to an audience of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) officials in December 2020, including LM Director Carmelo Melendez and Deputy Director Peter O’Konski.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: After a markup that lasted over eight hours, the Majority’s budget reconciliation measure passed out of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The Majority made no attempt to work across the aisle to develop the measure and didn’t accept a single Republican amendment during the markup.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCSICO - A three-year investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led to a settlement in a United States lawsuit, Feb. 10, in which the City and County of San Francisco consented to the forfeiture of two Thai lintels housed and on display at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC-Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Ami Bera, Chairman of the Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation Subcommittee, held a briefing on the situation in Burma and issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced its fiscal year 2021 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I topics. NIST’s SBIR program encourages domestic small businesses to engage in federal research and development that has the potential for commercialization with funding of up to $100,000 per project.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Barry Ritter, Jr., age 55, of Milton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on February 9, 2021, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 84 months of imprisonment and a 10-year term of supervised release, for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Today, National Park Service (NPS) South Atlantic-Gulf Regional Director Stan Austin announced the selection of Diana Bramble as the new superintendent of South Carolina’s Cowpens National Battlefield and Kings Mountain National Military Park, effective March 14. In her role, Bramble will also...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Theresa R, Gregory, 67, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment for evading the assessment and payment of incomes taxes due to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Gregory pleaded guilty to the aforementioned charges on Aug. 28, 2020.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
Release: The United States again calls on Turkey to immediately release Osman Kavala from detention. The specious charges against Kavala, his ongoing detention, and the continuing delays in the conclusion of his trial, including through the merger of cases against him, undermine respect for the rule of law and ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the Economic Club of New York...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) urged the Biden Administration to reconsider its decision to withdraw a rule proposed by the Trump Administration to require American schools and universities to disclose partnerships with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms. In February 2019, Portman,...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are extending a pilot project in Cades Cove by continuing vehicle-free access on the Cades Cove Loop Road on Wednesdays from May 5 through Sept. 1, 2021. Park managers implemented this weekly, full-day opportunity in 2020 in an effort to improve the visitor experience and to reduce congestion associated with vehicle-free mornings that were previously offered until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Sean M. Andre, age 30, of Brooklyn, New York, appeared in court today on a complaint alleging that he worked with an Ulster County man to fraudulently obtain more than $4 million in government-backed loans meant for businesses struggling with the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: A Cleveland man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute approximately three kilograms of cocaine. Jose Alfonzo Lopez, age 30, of Cleveland, Ohio, pleaded guilty to both counts of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Harold Alexis Ortiz Cosme, 22, of Puerto Rico, and Luis G. Candelario, 26, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 30-year-old Beaumont, Texas engineer pleaded guilty today for filing fraudulent bank loan applications seeking more than $10 million dollars in forgivable loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: Historian Carter G. Woodson started the first Black History Week in February 1926 through the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Decades later in 1976, this commemoration of black history in the United States was expanded by ASALH to Black History Month, also known as African American History Month, and President Ford issued the first Message on the Observance of Black History Month that same year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: In United States’ Lawsuit, San Francisco Agrees To Forfeit And Return to Thailand Two Ancient Thai Lintels Illegally Taken From Thailand Decades Ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man who admitted to participating in a criminal drug conspiracy that shipped more than 200 packages containing large quantities of heroin and cocaine from Los Angeles, Culver City, and Marina del Rey, CA, to cities and towns in the greater Providence and Southeastern Massachusetts areas has been sentenced to five years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2021
News Release: John Godfrey, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
