News from January 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $892,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, to create UNeTech Deploy!, a program to produce and deploy pandemic-related medical technology products.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: This is the second time in 12 years that a Republican president will leave office with the economy in ruins. Today there’s also a surging pandemic and armed troops guarding the Capitol from far-right insurrectionist attack. The Biden administration won’t begin with inaugural balls; it’ll begin with all-out triage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal criminal complaint against DAYTON CHARLES SAUKE, 22, charging him with possessing an unregistered firearm. SAUKE was taken into federal custody on Jan. 15, 2021, and will make his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge David T. Schultz in U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement in support of new U.S. sanctions on the Russian pipe-laying ship Fortuna and the Russia-based entity KVT-RUS for their involvement in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. In his...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Today, we welcome the Honorable Janet Yellen to consider an anticipated nomination for her to become Secretary of the Treasury.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Yuma Field Office will conduct prescribed burning at the Mittry Lake Wildlife Area, about 12 miles north of Yuma, between January and March, as weather allows.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Large silver pipes that crisscross the Savannah River Site (SRS) and run along many of its roadways may prompt visitors, new employees, and others to ask, ‘What are all those huge pipes used for?’.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today,House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) issued the following statements in response to President-elect Joe Biden’s announcement that he will halt construction on the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two Columbus men were sentenced in U.S. District Court for their roles in the March 2020 armed robbery of a local pawn shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: $7,750,000 Settlement Includes A Three-Year Memorandum of Agreement With The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that on Jan. 15, 2021 a grand jury indicted PATRICK HUSE, age 40, of Perkinston, Mississippi, for criminal conduct related to oil extraction in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: $7,750,000 Settlement Includes A Three-Year Memorandum of Agreement With The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management today released the Record of Decision (ROD) and Approved Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Bering Sea-Western Interior (BSWI) planning area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Scott Gibbs, 21, of Albuquerque was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 12 to seven years in prison for three counts of carjacking and one count of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- On Jan. 19, 2021, Tammy Lynn Hawk, 47, currently of Bristol, Tennessee, entered guilty pleas to counts of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and filing a false tax return in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville. Sentencing has been set for April 23, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., before District Judge Corker, in United States District Court at Greeneville.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
Release: NEW YORK - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at LaGuardia Airport detected 13 bullets concealed inside a container of chewing gum along with several pieces of gum at one of the security checkpoints on Thursday, Jan. 14.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote to outgoing Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting that the agency rescind a batch of letters it sent...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the city of Jefferson City, Missouri, to support the commercial redevelopment of the historic Missouri State Penitentiary site. The...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: ORLANDO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Orlando seized 284 counterfeit “sports championship rings" from “Friendly Confines Collectibles," a sports memorabilia store located in Oviedo, Florida, Jan. 14, 2021. The HSI investigation was supported by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2021
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 35-year-old Wylie, Texas man has been sentenced for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox today.
