News from June 2021
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: On July 1 the free Savage River Shuttle will begin operations along the Park Road with four runs daily from the Denali Bus Depot (0.75 mile) to Savage River (15 mile). The Savage River Shuttle, provided by Doyon/Aramark Joint Venture, will provide an opportunity for visitors to access the Mountain Vista...
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: On June 29, Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kin Moy co-hosted with Cambodia the first annual Mekong-U.S. Partnership Senior Officials’ Meeting. The ASEAN Secretariat joined the meeting as an observer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Glendale, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management will begin resurfacing the Cow Creek Road (BLM Roads 33-7-2.0 and 30-6-32), also known as the Cow Creek Backcountry Byway, between Glendale and Riddle, OR on July 6th. Road work is expected to continue through July 30, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Salem, Oregon man was sentenced to federal prison today for providing local drug dealers in Salem and Albany, Oregon with methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Zetian Liu to 60 months in prison today. In March of this year, the 25-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: KINDERHOOK, New York - Martin Van Buren National Historic Site will open for summer programs and tours on July 4, 2021. The visitor center tent will be open seven days a week from 9 am. to 4:00 pm. Restroom facilities are available, but the museum shop remains closed at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Kirby Cleveland, 37, of Prewitt New Mexico, and an enrolled member of Navajo Nation, was sentenced on June 28 in federal court to 30 years in prison for second-degree murder for killing Houston James Largo, a tribal police officer for the Navajo Nation. Cleveland pleaded guilty on Dec. 12, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Due to dry conditions and high wildland fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is increasing seasonal fire restrictions beginning on Thursday, July 1 and will remain in effect until further notice.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2022 funding bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On Wednesday, United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted pleas of guilty from Deandre Scott and Morocco Thompson-Bey for the crimes of being a felon in possession of a firearm and a felon in possession of ammunition, respectively. Immediately after their guilty pleas, Scott was sentenced to a 24-month term of imprisonment. Thompson-Bey received a sentence of 18 months. Scott, 32, and Thompson-Bey, 24, are both St. Louis residents.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will implement restrictions on outdoor use of fire on public lands managed by the Eagle Lake and Applegate field offices in Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra, Shasta and Siskiyou counties in California, and in Washoe County, Nevada. The restrictions go into effect Thursday, July 1, and will remain in place until further notice. These seasonal restrictions are in addition to the BLM’s year-round California fire prevention order.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: Advisory: Brady to Speak at USMCA Anniversary Event Alongside USTR & Trade Ministers from Mexico and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. - Six more men from Missouri and Illinois are facing federal charges for.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: FIRE RESTRICTION NOTICE. BATTLE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Pursuant to 43 CFR 9212.2, the following acts are prohibited on all public land areas, roads and trails located within and administered by the BLM-Nevada Battle Mountain District effective at 12:01...
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
Release: Today, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced a joint financing package of €600 million for Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd., headquartered in South Africa, to expand local vaccine manufacturing capacity. DFC is working together with DEG (Germany), Proparco (France), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that a St. John the Baptist man was sentenced on June 16, 2021 to 14 years in prison for violating federal drug and firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Six individuals have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Daniel Duran, 33, of Jamaica, NY, and Jacqueline Velazquez, 37, of Reading, PA, entered guilty pleas before United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney on multiple counts of mail fraud in connection with a phone and mail-based scheme to defraud elderly victims across the country out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Gloria Byars, 60, of Aldan, PA; Carlton Rembert, 66, of Hampton, VA; and Alesha Mitchell, 40, of Suffolk, VA, were all indicted for their roles in scheme to defraud elderly, incapacitated people out of hundreds of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted three defendants who worked for a Las Vegas private vault business of stealing cash, jewelry, and watches from safe deposit boxes and private vaults, as well as laundering those illegal proceeds.
