News from July 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene virtually for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Thursday, July 29th, 2021. The meeting will be held in-person at the Keweenaw National Historical Park Headquarters building. The Commission asks attendees to wear a mask if they are unvaccinated.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
Release: Today’s U.S.-Iraq Higher Coordinating Committee meeting in Washington underscored the breadth of U.S. support for Iraq.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement following his return from a Presidential Delegation sent to attend President Jovenel Moïse’s funeral in Haiti...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: A former IRS officer was sentenced today to three years in prison for obstructing federal tax laws, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Scott Grigsby, 41, of Abbeville, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to 102 months (8 years, 6 months) in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s 12-year anniversary of the last time the federal minimum wage was raised. The federal minimum wage is currently only...
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
Release: The United States is pleased to announce nearly $155 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of Iraq as well as Iraqi refugees in the region and generous communities hosting them. With this additional funding from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA -Taree Lamott Armstrong, 30, of Haines City, Florida, has been sentenced to twelve years in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple drug-trafficking offenses. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - Federal firefighters were injured when a sudden wind shift blew the wildfire back over their position as they were constructing a defensive fire line on the perimeter of the Devils Creek Fire in Garfield County, July 22.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the state of Nevada in combating the Tamarack Fire burning in Douglas County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man with ties to the Orchard Gardens housing development in Roxbury was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: Eastern District of Wisconsin to Participate in Cross-Jurisdictional Strike Force.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: A man who took photographs of a child performing a sex act was sentenced today to more than twenty-eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 23, 2021, a federal jury convicted Alim Turner, 23, Ushery Stewart, 22, Ronald Turner, 25, Kedaris Gilmore, 23, Mahlon Prater, Jr., 25, and Trevor Cox, 22, all of Knoxville, TN, and Demetrius Bibbs, 29, of Chattanooga, TN, of conspiring to distribute various controlled substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A former prison guard has admitted participating in a drug trafficking operation in south Georgia that included smuggling contraband to inmates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: Assailant Pepper-Sprayed Police and Struck Them with Whip.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management reminds claimants who wish to retain mining claims on public lands through the 2022 assessment year to pay a maintenance fee or file a Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification on or before Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, to prevent the mining claim from being declared forfeit and void.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man with ties to the Orchard Gardens housing development in Roxbury was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking charges.
