News from March 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: DENVER - This afternoon, FEMA authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Schroeder Fire burning in Pennington County, South Dakota near Rapid City.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- This week, federal pilot community vaccination centers are scheduled to open in Boston; Essex, New Jersey; Norfolk, Virginia and Yakima, Washington.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a follow-up letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Debra Haaland regarding the boundaries and designations of three national monuments. In part, Westerman wrote.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Caleb Guerrier, age 39, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on March 29, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to 63 months’ imprisonment for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and being in possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARK RICHBURG, age 40, of New Orleans, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine, heroin, and cocaine base.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor (DOL) announced it will not enforce an Office of Labor-Management Standards rule that provides necessary transparency and accountability for labor union assets including trusts...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Clarita Valley man pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $1.8 million in COVID-19 relief guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement, through a consent decree, with the City of Orlando resolving allegations that the city violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it discriminated and retaliated against Dawn Sumter, a female Assistant Fire Chief with the Orlando Fire Department (“Fire Department").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm today joined the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce at a White House roundtable meeting to announce a national goal to deploy 30 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind by 2030. This effort will support approximately 77,000 jobs in industry and...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on five produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: In Case You Missed It, Committee Republicans highlighted their priorities for a bipartisan surface transportation reauthorization during last week’s first Committee hearing with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Hurley Dewayne Pitts, age 46, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 188 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. March 29, 2021 - Preparations are underway to reopen campgrounds in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks for the 2021 summer season. In 2020, many campgrounds remained closed, or opened with limited capacity, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADOLFO VARGAS, 43, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today to theft of public funds related to his illegal receipt of Social Security benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $15.1 million in additional funding for COVID-19 response efforts in Montana. To date, FEMA has paid more than $26.4 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 29, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced that Joseph Soldano, 44, of Gastonia, N.C., was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for possession of child pornography. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney ordered Soldano to serve a lifetime of supervised release, to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison, and to pay $22,000 in special assessment fees and $3,000 as restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2021
News Release: 3/29 Update: The Homestead entrance and main park road (SR 9336) have reopened.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Joseph Edward Duncan, III, who was sentenced to death in 2008 for the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old north Idaho boy, died this morning. Duncan had been diagnosed with stage IV brain cancer. Duncan was in custody on death row at Terra Haute Federal Correctional Institution.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the Burmese military’s latest violent crackdown. Over a 100 people lost their lives on Saturday, Myanmar’s National Armed Forces Day, and shots were fired at the American Center of Yangon, in an incident that is being investigated.
