News from February 2021
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I send congratulations to the people of Estonia as you celebrate the 103rd anniversary of your independence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) applauded the Biden Administration’s announcement of urgent actions to deliver masks to communities hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Washington-Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on navigating U.S. foreign policy through tumultuous times and addressing systemic challenges...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: Washington - In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation's fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Liberty Island, NY - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today the cancellation of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island concession contract solicitation for passenger ferry transportation (CC-STLI001-20). The cancellation is due to the extended impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on visitation and the resultant disruption to the business opportunity advertised in the solicitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Merriam Village, Missouri, couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON-Prince Bixler, 41, of Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Wier to 36 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $333,100 in restitution to three sex trafficking victims.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: The United States is committed to a world in which human rights are protected, their defenders are celebrated, and those who commit human rights abuses are held accountable. Promoting respect for human rights is not something we can do alone, but is best accomplished working with our allies and partners...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the distribution of $55.7 million in historic preservation grants for states, territories, and partnering nations, and $15 million in historic preservation grants to 200 tribal historic preservation offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Christopher C. Cantwell, 40, of Keene, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison after being convicted of extortion and threat charges by a federal jury in September, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Franklin County corrections officer has been charged federally with advertising for and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA-On Feb. 19, 2021, Lonnie Ray Schafroth, age 54, of Corning, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 65 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release for receiving child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Saipan, MP - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Brian Galang Lizama, age 49, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands to 24 months imprisonment for Aggravated Identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Earl Frederic Owens (33, Jacksonville) to eight years and nine months in federal prison for distributing child sex abuse images using the Kik social media application. Owens was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release, register as a sex offender, and pay $3,000 in restitution to a child victim. Owens has been in custody since his arrest on Nov. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Calvin Johnson, aka “Lakeshia Johnson" and “Keyshia Johnson," pleaded guilty this morning in two criminal cases after committing wire fraud and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning for the second of three nomination hearings this week. I’m pleased to welcome Attorney General Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing of an indictment that charges Brandon Rankin, 26, Madison, Wisconsin, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment was returned on February 10 by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau announced the release of a new report that examines characteristics and geographic distribution of the nation’s estimated 980,000 same-sex couple households. The report, “Same-Sex Couple Households: 2019, " is based on 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates. The ACS is the leading source for community and local-level data.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Rules and Administration, announced their...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Tewksbury woman was sentenced today for diverting morphine while she was employed as a nurse in the hospice unit at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center campus in Bedford.
