News from May 2021
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to Secretary Cardona’s decision to give Title IV ineligible students access to taxpayer money...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO - After a two-day jury trial, Zachary Alexander Karas of San Diego was found guilty of possessing incendiary devices known as Molotov cocktails at a protest that began on May 30, 2020 in La Mesa. After the jury returned a guilty verdict, Chief District Judge Dana M. Sabraw remanded Karas into custody. Sentencing is set for Aug. 13, 2021, at 9 a.m. before Chief Judge Sabraw.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. - In honor of National Police Week, Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook 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.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - AlixaRx, LLC, a national provider of pharmacy services to long-term care facilities, has agreed to pay the United States $2.75 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by, among other things, allowing opioids and other controlled substances to be dispensed without valid prescriptions between Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 13, 2017.
By State Newswire | May 11, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former Tennessee Correctional Officer was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison and two years supervised release for conspiring to cover up the beating of an inmate and for persuading other officers to provide false information to investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, pressed Brandon Wales, Acting Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) on the need for a single point...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Christopher Ted Duluk (32, Fort Myers) to seven years in federal prison for possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Duluk was also sentenced to a 15-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher today sentenced Mathew Palmer, age 44, of Severna Park, Maryland, to eight years in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Gallagher also ordered that, upon his release from...
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) issued the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announcement that the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program will officially begin tomorrow...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Marvel David Yarborough, age 30, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: HAMMOND- In honor of National Police Week, Acting U.S. Attorney Gary T. Bell 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.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: From the branching pattern of leaf veins to the variety of interconnected pathways that spread the coronavirus, nature thrives on networks - grids that link the different components of complex systems. Networks underlie such real-life problems as determining the most efficient route for a trucking company to deliver life-saving drugs and calculating the smallest number of mutations required to transform one string of DNA into another.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Havre man accused of beating and strangling a woman on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation pleaded guilty to an assault crime today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Philadelphia - FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Community partners are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, May 19, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) with Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 DOE Budget."
By State Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: It’s my pleasure to join Dr. Barbara Stinson and everyone at the World Food Prize Foundation - along with people around the world - in celebrating the 2021 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted.
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Wednesday, May 19, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) with Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 DOE Budget."
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2021
Release: Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
