News from May 2021
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), spoke on the Senate Floor today urging the Senate to adopt his World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) amendment to the U.S. Innovation and...
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A public notice has been posted to the FEMA and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency websites describing available FEMA assistance and proposed FEMA-funded actions, including activities that may affect historic properties, threatened and endangered species, critical habitat, or wetlands and floodplains in Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Carolyn B. Maloney and Ranking Member James Comer sent a letter to Tammy L. Whitcomb, Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service, expressing concerns about reports that the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is using the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) to perform intelligence operations on First Amendment activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Omar Acosta, 43, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Wendy Beetlestone for narcotics and firearms offenses stemming from an undercover operation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM crews recently placed a final radioactive waste shipment into the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site ’s largest waste disposal area and will begin closing the facility, fulfilling a DOE commitment to the state of Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Passaic County, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing fentanyl.
By USDA Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) today announced an initiative to quantify the climate benefits of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts. This multi-year effort will enable USDA to better target CRP toward climate outcomes and improve existing models and conservation planning tools while supporting USDA’s goal of putting American agriculture and forestry at the center of climate-smart solutions to address climate change.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: GRAND CANYON, Ariz. - Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park this Memorial Day weekend and through the summer season can expect long lines, full parking lots and crowded conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal indictment was unsealed today charging Randy Edward Martin, 38, of Roseville, with distribution and possession of child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: On a sunny day in Grand Junction, Colorado, children ride the waves at Las Colonias, a newly opened river park close to a former uranium processing site. Las Colonias, which also features trails and an amphitheater, is an example of beneficial reuse that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) supports as part of its mission.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- One resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on tax charges, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - A 51-year-old Seattle man was convicted late Friday, May 21, 2021, in U.S. District Court in Seattle of drug and gun crimes following a five-day jury trial. The conviction of Clyde McKnight resulted from a 6-month investigation in 2017 by the Seattle Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on Tuesday, May 21, 2021 that RICHARD SANSBURY, age 28, and ALAN PARSON, age 20, residents of Indianapolis, Indiana, plead guilty to the three count Indictment for their participation in the June 17, 2019 robbery of the CVS pharmacy located at 4901 Prytania Street.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good evening, everyone. Ah, must be a slow night. (Laughter.) Good to see you all.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Birmingham man was sentenced today for a scheme to obtain money from a fund intended for the family of a fallen Huntsville Police officer, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, U.S. Postal Inspector In Charge, Houston Division, Adrian Gonzalez, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By State Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after meeting with Colombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez:
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Keim’s criminal actions contributed to the insolvency of Consumers Credit Union.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk site at Indiana Dunes National Park has reopened after a successful work project to install boulders needed to protect the pavilion and assure safer access to the shoreline. The project was a joint effort by the City of Portage and the National Park Service and involved the installation of more than 1,000 tons of boulders needed to protect the area from erosion.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Like the rest of the country’s scientific research and development community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has been in the thick of COVID-19 mission work since the pandemic began more than a year ago. At the onset, much was unknown about the novel...
