News from February 2021

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - Three individuals have been charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to a Chicago Transit Authority van during a period of civil unrest last spring.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Maurice Woodson, 34, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine; one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in death; and one count of witness tampering. Woodson appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey who accepted the plea.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Has Prior Felony Conviction for Illegally Reentering the United States.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - To combat the dangers workers face in trenching operations, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the South Dakota State University Engineering Extension Program and the South Dakota One Call Notification Board signed an alliance on Feb. 19, 2021, to train workers on excavation hazards.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Demecio Navarro Sanchez, 66, of Mexico, and Daniel Melchor, 20, of Santa Ana, charging them with conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Kazena was previously convicted in federal court for meth trafficking in 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va.- Daniel Shane Carter, a Wise, Virginia man who distributed methamphetamine in Scott County, Virginia, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 10 years in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the House Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN) introduced an amendment to apply the Hyde Amendment to the entire $1.9 trillion ...

By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
Release: The United States joins Ukraine in marking the seventh anniversary of Russia’s invasion and seizure of Crimea - a brazen affront to the modern international order. We affirm this basic truth: Crimea is Ukraine.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $842,522 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to develop and implement an economic recovery and resiliency plan and provide technical assistance to bolster the region’s ability to withstand future economic disruptions. This EDA grant will be matched with more than $200,000 in local investment.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Three residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2021, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Joan Perez, age 20, of Utica, New York, was indicted on Feb. 23, 2021, by a federal grand jury for online enticement of a minor and interstate travel with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Ted D. Melton, 46, of Charlotte, to 365 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Melton was also ordered to register as a sex offender and to serve the rest of his life under court supervision after he is released from prison. Judge Bell also ordered Melton to have no contact with victims of child pornography.