News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Ordered to Forfeit $134,000 in Drug Proceeds Seized During a Search of the Defendant’s Residence; Previously Convicted in Federal Court for Trafficking Heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - Reclamation will be conducting core sampling and installing several observation wells on the downstream face of Heart Butte Dam beginning the week of March 14, 2021. The work is estimated to last three months.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
Release: PRIME MINISTER SUGA: (Via interpreter) I would like to extend my sincere welcome to Secretary Blinken and Secretary Austin for visiting Japan as your first overseas travel. I would also like to welcome that President Biden has declared that America is back, and is promoting policies that value relations with its allies and partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Damien Hayes, 24, of Natchez, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 18 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nomination of California Secretary of Labor Julie Su to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor, stressing the importance...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming - The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation has prepared the March snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05), House Transportation and Infrastructure Chair Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), and Rep. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) introduced the Increase Federal Disaster Cost Share Act. This bipartisan bill would boost the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - Jace Faugno, 25, of Paducah, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 78 months in.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., today released the following statement on their effort to draft legislation to incentivize domestic manufacturing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: El Paso businessman, 59-year-old Victor Manuel Gonzalez, sole proprietor of the now-closed Tax Preparation Service, allegedly underreported his income on personal tax returns causing a tax loss of over $100,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRSCI), Houston Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's March forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Join us on March 27, 2021, as Obed Wild and Scenic River partners with Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning, and East Tennessee Whitewater Club to host its annual volunteer river-based cleanup.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy John Watson, of Ranson, West Virginia, has admitted to unlawfully possessing a firearm silencer, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: I have decided to extend the FAA’s unruly-passenger zero-tolerance policy as we continue to do everything we can to confront the pandemic. The policy directs our safety inspectors and attorneys to take strong enforcement action against any passenger who disrupts or threatens the safety of a flight, with penalties ranging from fines to jail time. The number of cases we’re seeing is still far too high, and it tells us urgent action continues to be required.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) spoke in support of H.R. 485, the Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). Stronger CAPTA is bipartisan legislation to strengthen federal efforts to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
Release: DENVER, CO, March 16, 2021 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) announced it has taken action against 23 Missouri and Illinois retailers suspected of violating USDA rules for accepting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced Harold L. Williams, 40, of Pekin, Ill., a previously convicted sex offender, to serve 47 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor while he was on federal supervised release. The sentence consists of 45 years for enticing an out-of-state...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: The Finance Committee has worked hard over the last year to tackle the public health and jobs crises brought on by COVID-19. Today the committee meets to discuss another challenge that the pandemic exposed; the fragility of our supply chains, and the need to boost manufacturing in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, MD. - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Thomas Corey Crosby, age 51, of Woodlawn, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, specifically, 40 grams or more of fentanyl. Judge Russell also ordered that Crosby must forfeit $134,499 in cash, which was seized on Aug. 14, 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Spring plowing will begin in Grand Teton National Park on Monday, March 22. The plowing operations mark the end of over-snow access on the 14-mile section of the Teton Park Road between Taggart Lake Trailhead and the Signal Mountain area.
