News from July 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in Washington County, Arkansas. Property owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential future...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Defendant Also Must Pay $3.6 Million in Restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Today’s hearing is the next step in this Committee’s ongoing work and leadership on forced labor issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man who admitted to murdering a man and then holding a woman hostage by knifepoint on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 26 years and eight months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Jerard Keaton Davis (35, Palm Coast) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine base. The court also ordered Davis to forfeit the firearm and ammunition he had possessed as part of the offense.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
Release: Several factors make Slovenia an attractive location for foreign direct investment (FDI): modern infrastructure with access to important EU transportation corridors, a major port on the Adriatic Sea with access to the Mediterranean, a highly educated and professional workforce, proximity to Central European ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Outbreak was the largest public health crisis ever caused by a contaminated pharmaceutical drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NADYAR MALAKA, 34, of Stratford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Bureau of Land Management Law Enforcement Rangers are issuing citations for unlawful camp fires on Muddy Mountain, as well as finding multiple unattended fires left by campers. The BLM High Plains District reminds all Public Land Users that there are Stage 1 fire restrictions on all public lands within Campbell, Converse, Crook, Goshen, Johnson, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte, Sheridan, and Weston Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT C. HARRINGTON, 55, of Milford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to receipt of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Today, FEMA announced two initiatives to advance equity across the agency, which are the first step in focusing the agency toward reducing barriers and increasing opportunities. The two major initiatives are the formation of an Equity Enterprise Steering Group and the establishment of a robust stakeholder...
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after meeting with His Majesty King Abdullah of Jordan:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa -- On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, federal search warrants were executed at the following locations in the Des Moines metropolitan area.
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
Release: Turkey experienced strong economic growth on the back of the many positive economic and banking reforms it implemented between 2002 and 2007, and it weathered the global economic crisis of 2008-2009 better than most countries, establishing itself as a relatively stable emerging market with a promising ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
Release: DETROIT - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented three handguns from going onboard airplanes at Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: Defendant Charged at Officers and Repeatedly Struck Them with Four-Foot-Long Rod.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, IOWA - A East Moline man, Davion Demitri Gary, age 22, was sentenced on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 65 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Gary was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100.00 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Alaa Iwaisi, 30, of Peoria, Ill., was sentenced on July 20, 2021, to 36 months in federal prison for filing false federal personal tax returns, aiding in the filing of false federal corporate returns, and mail fraud for mailing false small business corporation tax returns to the State of Illinois for tax years 2015, 2016, and 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Cedar Creek Fire burning in Okanogan County, Washington.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate voted to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by a vote of 51-50. In remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, ...
