News from July 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), the EM Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor at the Hanford Site, has awarded three subcontracts worth nearly $19 million to a local company for construction projects to support tank waste treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ARIEL TAVAREZ, a/k/a “A," a/k/a “Mike," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue, and to distributing narcotics that caused...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - On July 1, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging a New Orleans man for violations of the Federal Gun Control and Federal Controlled Substances Acts, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Marshal Tyreece Miller announces the arrest of the third of three male juveniles who had escaped from the Wilder Youth Development Center in Somerville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Melrose man pleaded guilty on Thursday, July 1, 2021 in connection with his role in an unemployment insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A documented gang member with a violent criminal history pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm after law enforcement arrested him with a loaded semi-automatic pistol.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: FREDERICK, Md. - What were the most popular songs during the Civil War? How loud is a cannon? And did Civil War soldiers really eat hardtack? Find out the answers to these questions and more on July 9 and 10 at Monocacy National Battlefield. To commemorate the 157th anniversary of the Battle of Monocacy, the National Park Service will host a variety of special events and programs.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - Lloyd Parker, 32, of Hutchinson, Kansas, was sentenced last week to 262.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Bulan, Ky., woman, Linda Shepherd, 54, pleaded guilty on Monday, June 28, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Hanly A. Ingram, to embezzling assets from a labor union.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - On Wednesday, July 7, and Thursday, July 8, the Bureau of Reclamation will reduce overnight releases from Davis Dam as a continued effort to help decrease the local caddisfly population. The reduced flows along the river reach below Davis Dam will help with an ongoing pest abatement study being conducted by the downstream communities to combat this nuisance species that negatively impacts businesses and visitors to the area.
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Comoros on the occasion of your independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Vance Pearson, the former Director of the United Auto Worker’s Region 5 and a former member of the UAW’s International Executive Board, was sentenced to 12 months in prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars of UAW dues money and to further racketeering activity announced Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The COVID-19 pandemic fast-forwarded the adoption and adaptation of the digital workplace and like at many EM sites, numerous work groups at the Hanford Site have mastered that shift.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: Taos, N.M. - To accommodate a Federal Highway Administration construction project in Taos, N.M., the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces limited public access at Wild Rivers Recreation Area from July 11 - Aug. 7, 2021. Impacts to public access will occur only on Tuesdays through Thursdays during this four-week period. Visitors will have access Fridays through Mondays.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Havelock man yesterday on charges of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin, four counts of distributing heroin and aiding and abetting, and one count of possessing with intent to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: A recent article published by the Washington Examiner highlights Senator Portman’s work in the U.S. Senate to protect migrant children from human trafficking and abuse at our southern border. Portman has continuously demanded that the Biden administration take action on the ongoing migrant crisis at...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware and our federal partners opened the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the demise of the Wilmington Trust Company in 2011. We have interviewed hundreds of witnesses and reviewed hundreds of thousands of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2021
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Shane Terhune, who sold heroin to a young couple just hours before the woman’s July 2018 overdose death, pleaded guilty to a charge of distributing that heroin, and admitted to causing the victim’s death.
