News from June 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) announced today that $1,755,345 in Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) funds has been awarded to the village of Machesney Park, Ill., for the acquisition of 17 flood-prone homes in the floodplain of the Rock River in Winnebago County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: A Louisiana man pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of an animal for use in an animal fighting venture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Waseca travel agency owner pleaded guilty today to a scheme to defraud travel agents out of more than $400,000 in commission payments, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, OSCAR DE JESUS LOPEZ, 31, of Pottawatomie County, was sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in illegal possession of ammunition, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a compliance directive designed to ensure uniform inspection and enforcement procedures for its Emergency Temporary Standard to protect healthcare workers from occupational exposures to COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in portions of the Cities of China Grove, Elmendorf, San Antonio and St. Hedwig; and unincorporated areas of Bexar County, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Bangor man pleaded guilty today in federal court to possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Dear President Biden: We write to request the Administration extend the current pause on federally-held student loan payments, interest, and collections. The relief provided by the current pause has been a financial lifeline to tens of millions of student loan borrowers nationwide. Before we restart...
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of Beijing’s National Security Law in Hong Kong:
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in medicine to detect, diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer, while relying on experts’ interpretation of images. Quantitative MRI, which obtains numerical measurements during the scans, can now potentially offer greater accuracy, repeatability and speed - but rigorous quality control is needed for it to reach its full potential, according to a new study.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that KYLE F. CAMPBELL, age 31 of Fairmont, Indiana, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an incident that occurred on June 21, 2021, in Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Campbell appeared for arraignment and sentencing before United States Magistrate Judge Mark L. Carman in Mammoth, Wyoming, on June 23, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2022 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs and Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell,III sentenced Tony Lee Bauer age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland to 110 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine as well as possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2021-16. June 30, 2021To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials. Effective June 9, 2021, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) removed the Mexican fruit fly (Mexfly) quarantine area in Lasara, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: USMCA Means Better Partnership Through Better Enforcement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: SURFSIDE, Fla. - Today the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it would launch a full technical investigation into what caused the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condominium in Surfside, Florida, on June 24, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - ERIC METZ, age 38, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, was charged June 24, 2021 in a three-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C)...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Chair of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2022 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: A man who accessed child pornography was sentenced on June 29, 2021, to ten years in federal prison.
