News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Media Advisory. Effective March 23, 2021, the Center City Vaccination Center (CCVC) in Philadelphia, PA will exclusively administer second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for three weeks. First doses will not be available at the CCVC during this time. Vaccination will be by appointment...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $2.9 million in additional funding for COVID-19 response efforts in Montana. To date, FEMA has paid more than $11.3 million in Public Assistance funding for COVID-19 response in Montana. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued March 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Cordell McDowell, age 32, of Davenport, to two years in prison for escape announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his prison term, McDowell was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Sean P. Costello of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dorian Lakeith Webb, Jr., 19, of Mobile, was sentenced today for his participation in an armed carjacking which occurred in Mobile during December of 2019. In December of 2020, Webb pled guilty to the charge of brandishing a firearm during and in furtherance of the carjacking, a crime of violence under federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 54-year-old man has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and abetting the failure to file a form 8300, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Oleksandra Johnson (619) 546-9769.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury has indicted two South Florida residents in connection with the alleged sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN - Join us for the virtual Apostle Islands National Lakeshore 50th Anniversary Resource Stewardship Symposium on March 30-31, where twenty-six presenters who will share the rich story of the Apostle Islands - from archeology, cultural resources and traditional ecological knowledge...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: A recent incident on the ice near the Lake City bridge highlights the need for extreme caution on or near Blue Mesa and the other reservoirs of Curecanti. On Friday, March 19, an angler was standing on the ice along the shore. The slab of ice broke and the angler fell between two ice sheets. Gunnison Fire and EMS, along with National Park Service rangers responded.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Marty Walsh to serve as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) by a bipartisan vote of 68-29. Last Thursday, in remarks on the Senate floor, Senator Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A former Boise, Idaho resident was sentenced to federal prison today for his role in a darknet drug distribution scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Scott Erik Asphaug. Kevin Marc Crotteau, 25, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy responsible for transporting methamphetamine from Akron, Ohio to Huntington where it was distributed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Tuscola, Ill., woman, Kandis Mills, 47, who worked as a registered nurse at a health care facility, was sentenced on March 19, 2021, to serve six years in federal prison for tampering with morphine intended for hospice patients and using it herself. Mills was ordered to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on May 25, 2021, to begin serving her prison term, and to remain on supervised release for three years following her release from prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: For the first time, the GFS will be coupled with a global wave model called WaveWatchIII offsite link which will extend current wave forecasts from 10 days out to 16 days and improve the prediction of ocean waves forced by the atmosphere. Coupling the GFS and wave models will streamline the National...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: Today, the United States, in unity with our partners, is imposing sanctions against Wang Junzheng, the Secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and Chen Mingguo, Director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB) under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program. We are doing so in response to serious human rights abuse against members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on April 22 will implement the first phase of the South-Central Florida Metroplex, the agency’s plan to move flights more safely and efficiently across the southern half of the state. Metroplex procedures will allow flights that are more direct and have more efficient climb and descent profiles.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today released the following statement after the arrest of former Interim President Jeanine Áñez and other former officials in Bolivia:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men today admitted their roles in a Newark carjacking in which a firearm was brandished, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Alexander Jamica Hubbard, age 40, of Davenport, to 180 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Following his imprisonment, Hubbard was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Marty Walsh as the Secretary of the Department of Labor...
