News from March 2021
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) responded to a newly released report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding military families’ limited access to high-quality, K-12 educational options for their children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - WILLIAM AUTHUR BRYANT, JR., a/k/a “Dudie," age 27, and TATUM TERRELL DARDAR, age 24, both of Terrebonne Parish, La., were charged March 5, 2021, in an 8-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with several narcotics offenses, including conspiring to distribute and possess with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Shane Thompson, 46, of Rumney, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: VALE, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management Vale District and local officials will soon be taking stricter measures to protect the visitor experience and natural resources at Snively Hot Springs day use area along the Owyhee River.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Robert Dale Ogden, age 45, of Oktaha, Oklahoma was found guilty by a federal jury of Count Two - Abusive Sexual Contact with a Child Age 12 to 16 Years, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 4, 2021, Vincent Carter, age 36, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment followed by a three-year term of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Deborah Kay Jenkins, age 48, of Porter, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to pay $68,885.00 in restitution for Theft, Embezzlement or Misapplication by Bank Employee, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelly Marie Talbert, of Keyser, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting United States Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - Charles Lee Schmidt, 51, of Idaho Falls, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 58 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Schmidt to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Schmidt pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 13, 2020.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. DRL FY20 IRF Promoting Religious Freedom in Afghanistan. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007705. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Excavation work is among the most dangerous in the construction industry. Trenches can collapse around and atop workers, crushing and burying them quickly and sometimes fatally - which has long made trench and excavation protection a vital concern for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
Release: MS FOTOVAT: Good morning. My name is Kat Fotovat, and I am the senior official for the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues here at the State Department. It is my pleasure to welcome both our in-person and virtual audience to the 15th Annual Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Robert L. Lemons, age 33, of Idabel, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment for Felon In Possession of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 6, 2021 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement today on passage of the American Rescue Plan Act by the U.S. Senate.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I send best wishes to the people of Ghana on the 64th anniversary of your independence.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to London, Brussels, and Paris March 8-10, 2021, to work with European allies to strengthen global climate ambition heading into President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate April 22-23 and the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change later this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As part of the Senate-passed COVID-19 relief package, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., established a new program to help rural counties with large tracts of federal lands and Tribes hard hit by the economic downturn.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statements on funding included in the American Rescue Plan to support public health work critical to ending the pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chair David Scott issued the following statement following the Senate’s passage of the American Rescue Plan Act.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Chair Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of $12.7 billion in funding for home- and community-based services (HCBS) in the American Rescue Plan, to ensure people with disabilities get the care they need during this pandemic.
