News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Representatives Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Ted Deutch (D-FL) introduced the COVID-19 Safer Detention Act of 2021 to reform the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program and compassionate release ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) and contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) recently resumed final cleanup activities within the former Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) footprint at the Hanford Site following the historic demolition of PFP’s main processing facility early last year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - George Liffert has been named the new superintendent of Prince William Forest Park, a national park in Triangle, Va. Liffert started his National Park Service (NPS) career as a park ranger at Prince William Forest Park and most recently served as the superintendent of Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts. He started in his new role May 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A federal grand jury sitting in London, has indicted Patrick Baker, 42, a resident of Frankfort, Ky., on a federal charge of murder, committed during a robbery and kidnapping related to drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Two men have been ordered detained in federal custody following a Rhode Island DEA Drug Task Force investigation into the trafficking of fentanyl pills that resulted in the seizure of more than three kilograms of fentanyl pills.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Officials with EM, cleanup contractor CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently presented donations to three organizations that provide emergency services to the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) and surrounding community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - In order to mitigate heat-related incidents and promote visitor safety, Tonto National Monument will enter into annual summer hours to hike to the Lower Cliff Dwelling. Starting June 1, 2021 and ending Aug. 31, 2021 hiking hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (noon). Visitors who wish to hike to the Lower Cliff Dwelling need to begin their hike before 12:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Charles Cornelius Smith (35, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The court also ordered Smith to pay restitution to the victims he had defrauded.
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
Release: Secretary Antony J. Blinken is traveling to Central America on June 1-2, 2021 to engage with leaders from the region at a meeting of the Central American Integration System (SICA) in San Jose, Costa Rica. In its current role as chair of SICA, Costa Rica is inviting senior leaders from Guatemala, Belize,...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2020 Characteristics of New Housing Report, which provides annual statistics on the characteristics of new privately owned residential structures by census region. The report includes characteristics such as square footage, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, location of laundry facilities, presence of a homeowner’s association and buyers’ financing source.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Through the world of virtual reality, students can fly with atoms on an electron beam, racing to the point where they witness the molecules' controlled destruction and analysis of the scattering particles within a highly specialized scientific device known as a mass spectrometer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: On Saturday May 22, 2021, at approximately 2:38 p.m., Glen Canyon Communications Center was notified by a 911 call of a possible drowning on Lake Powell near Friendship Cove within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Friendship Cove is located between Last Chance Bay and Rock Creek Bay, approximately 33 miles from the Glen Canyon Dam, in Kane County, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Four defendants pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia to federal dogfighting and conspiracy charges for their roles in an interstate dogfighting network across the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey.
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kenya from May 31 to June 6. Special Envoy Feltman will meet with senior officials of the four countries to discuss cooperative approaches to supporting a stable and prosperous Horn of Africa, including a resolution of the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that is acceptable to all parties.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Hazardous fuels reduction projects take place in strategic locations within Rocky Mountain National Park. The most recent project will take place along Rocky Mountain National Park’s boundary adjacent to Allenspark. Work will include removing dead trees, the lower limbs of remaining trees, ladder fuels, and dead and down logs. Resulting woody materials will be piled on site and burned during winter when conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A former procurement director at Broward Health pled guilty today in federal district court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to a federal conspiracy charge, admitting that he accepted kickbacks from vendors and a consultant in exchange for awarding them lucrative government contracts.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 1, 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 | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE - The United States and Tennessee today filed a consolidated complaint in intervention alleging violations of the False Claims Act and the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act by Curo Health Services Holdings, Inc., Curo Health Services, LLC, TNMO Healthcare, LLC (d/b/a Avalon Hospice), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Willie Tyler, age 69, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to life in prison by Chief Judge John E. Jones III for witness tampering by murder and witness tampering by intimidation. He was ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 4th, 2021, to commence serving his sentence.
