News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Twenty-three middle-school girls from the St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, Colorado, have logged on to their school tablets and laptops for a special kind of class on a frigid February afternoon: an introduction to coding - a new experience for some of them - and to learn what a career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) looks like for women.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $600,000 grant to Lee-Russell Council of Governments, Opelika, Alabama, to capitalize a revolving loan fund that will provide critical gap financing to new and existing small and medium-sized businesses in Lee and Russell counties. This EDA grant will be matched with $150,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Leelynn Danielle Chytka pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Va., to charges that she conspired with others to defraud the government of more than $499,000, commit mail fraud, and commit aggravated identify theft, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Acting Special Agent-in-Charge, Philadelphia Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- As numerous mainstream outlets have reported, the origins of COVID-19 are still unknown and China is stonewalling efforts to get answers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Thursday’s hearing on securing America’s energy future.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Beckley man pleaded guilty today to distributing cocaine base in Raleigh County. Greg Anthony Waters, 52, was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Defendant Falsely Documented Inspection of Rail Bond Subsequently Linked to 2019 Derailment in Speonk.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman, (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Healthy Meals and Healthy Futures."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: KOUNTZE, Texas - Big Thicket National Preserve Fire Management will be doing a prescribed burn starting on Friday, March 19th in the Big Sandy Creek Unit continuing through the weekend, weather permitting.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act: Industrial Climate Policies to Create Jobs and Support Working Communities:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Johnson County man, Sean Tharp, was sentenced to 125 months in federal prison on Thursday, by United States District Judge Robert E Wier, following his conviction for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced additional details today on the fully remote joint hearing the Communications...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte has returned a criminal indictment charging Herbert Leonel Diaz, 62, a former resident of Henderson County, N.C., with naturalization fraud and passport fraud, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: HARLINGEN, Texas - A Colombian man in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) passed away Monday evening at Valley Baptist Medical Center (VBMC) in Harlingen, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Flando Selvy, a multi-convicted felon, will spend the next 10 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm. Jonathan D. Ross, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down Tuesday afternoon by United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: Nespelem Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York has filed a civil action seeking to determine the ownership of a 1996 Ferrari F50.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on DHS Management Challenges.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released an unclassified summary of the joint comprehensive threat assessment on domestic violent extremism. The unclassified summary is attached and will be available on DNI.gov later today.
