News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-A Klamath Falls, Oregon man pleaded guilty today for sending cards to former coworkers containing a white powdered pesticide threatened to be anthrax, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a loaded handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) Friday.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed new acrylic shields at two Iowa airports as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. New shields are in place at Des Moines International Airport and Waterloo Regional Airport.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designated three Michigan counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Chippewa, Luce and Mackinac counties who suffered losses caused by excessive rain that occurred from July 15, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2020, may be eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Ashley Chapman Hoff is officially the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. On Jan. 26, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas appointed Hoff as U.S. Attorney effective yesterday. Pursuant to the appointment order, Hoff will serve as U.S. Attorney until a successor is appointed and sworn into office. U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman administered the oath of office to Hoff at the federal courthouse in Austin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Garden City, Ga., clinic owner and CEO has been indicted for operating a clinic that provided a base from which a notorious “pill mill" doctor dispensed massive amounts of controlled substances.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) findings that the Raise the Wage Act would lift nearly one million Americans out of poverty and raise wages for up to 27 million workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Horsfall Also Unlawfully Possessed and Trafficked Firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site and Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge will host a free guided bird walk Saturday, Feb. 13, at the Fort from 10 am to noon for the Great Backyard Bird Count.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: In San Antonio today, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against an Iron Youth member for illegally possessing a machine gun, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the announcement that Greta Peisch will serve as general counsel for the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Peisch previously served as senior international trade counsel for Wyden on the Senate Finance Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Fueled by a sea of tinder created by drought, and propelled by powerful gusts, the flames grew and traveled rapidly. In less than 24 hours, the fire had swept through the town of Paradise and other communities, leaving a charred ruin in its wake.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: While Wearing Body Armor And Holding A Handgun And Machete, Defendant Paced Outside Of An Airport Business, Prompting 911 Calls.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding weather-camera services to Hawaii to enhance aviation safety and pilot decision-making. The cameras, which already are installed in Alaska and Colorado, improve safety by providing pilots with near-real time video of weather conditions at their destinations and along their intended flight routes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that John P. Gonzales, 61 of Milford, DE, was sentenced today to 20 months in prison and one year of supervised release by United States District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his involvement in a bribery scheme to provide an Amtrak official with cash and vacations in exchange for lucrative federal contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and false claims against the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold three virtual public meetings to solicit input for grant applications to support off-highway vehicle recreation on public lands within the jurisdictions of the Bakersfield and Ukiah field offices, as well as within the boundaries of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Pilot Project sites will implement initial response plans for tribal communities’ response to new missing and murdered persons cases.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Today, following the House Agriculture Committee’s Democratic Caucus organizational meeting, Chairman David Scott of Georgia announced the election of the Chairs of the Committee’s six Subcommittees...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ricky Blackwell, 30, of Modesto, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to six and a half years in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
