News from May 2021
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in collaboration with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office (Utah SHPO) celebrate the 152nd anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point in Utah by announcing the availability of a self-guided audio...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ -Tonto National Monument will increase fire restrictions beginning Friday, May 14, 2021. These restrictions coincide with similar restrictions going into effect on other public lands in southern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Jasiel F. Correia II, the former Mayor of Fall River, Mass., was convicted by a federal jury today in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and extorting marijuana vendors for thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A North Carolina businessman was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for tax fraud and illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that Tami Haug-Davis, age 63, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on May 11, 2021, and pled guilty to an Information that charged her with Making a Materially False Statement.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Harpers Ferry, W.Va. - The National Park Service (NPS) is taking action to stabilize a hill next to Harpers Ferry Road (Sandy Hook Road) in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. Construction will begin on or about Monday, May 17. This area was the site of a landslide in 2018. The NPS is installing new, buried steel supports that are designed to reduce the possibility of future landslides.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Defendant charged with unlawfully selling and offering for sale protected red-tailed hawk, bald and golden eagle feathers.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2021
Release: 15 New Research Projects Will Seek Improvements to Biofuel Manufacturing That Maximize Production While Reducing CO2 Emissions Waste
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Steven Lessard, 34, of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Thursday to 150 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: New Haven, CT - The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with the U.S. Marshals Middle District of Alabama and the Montgomery Police Department, today arrested fugitive Qinxuan Pan, who is wanted in Connecticut and charged with the February murder of Kevin Jiang.
By EPA Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky on Friday requesting that her agency update its guidance related to children and travel. Leader Rodgers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A Sand Springs man who kidnapped and threatened to kill a former dating partner pleaded guilty today in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: INYO COUNTY, CA - On May 8, at approximately 8:00pm Inyo County Sheriff’s Dispatch was notified through Death Valley National Park that 76 year old Robert Wildoner from Apple Valley, CA had been reported missing. According to information received, Wildoner had not returned from a solo trip to Saline...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Fermin Heredia-Lopez, 29, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Heredia to 210 months’ imprisonment. There...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Committee voted favorably to send several good government bills to the House Floor...
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- On May 12, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents 12 to 15 years of age.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Todd County, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Antony Eugene Woody (33, Orange Park) has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of advertising images depicting the sexual abuse of children for sale using the internet. Woody faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, and up to, 30 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky on Friday requesting that her agency update its guidance related to children and travel. Leader Rodgers...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Oxford, Miss.- In honor of National Police Week, Acting U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement. This year, the week is observed Sunday, May 9 through Saturday, May 15, 2021.
