News from May 2021
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced initial steps beginning a rulemaking process that could deliver greater cost savings to consumers through more efficient general service lamps - better known as the common light bulb used in homes and businesses - by publishing a (RFI) that seeks input...
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) joined U.S. Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah) and four other Republican members in introducing theBroadband Permitting Modernization Act, a package of four bills designed to strengthen rural broadband infrastructure across America.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent a letter to President Biden encouraging the administration to stand by Israel, resist calls to delay the sale of important munitions, and expedite the processing and delivery of those munitions as much as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Everett Paquin, 58, of Bosque Farms, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta, was arraigned today in federal court on a three-count indictment of assault with a deadly weapon, witness tampering and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. A federal grand jury indicted Paquin on April 22. Paquin will remain detained pending trial.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States, I congratulate the people of the Republic of Cameroon as you celebrate National Day on May 20.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: POCATELLO - Loren Kim Jacobson, 65, of Pocatello, and owner of a tanker testing and repair company, KCCS Inc., pleaded guilty to making an illegal repair to a cargo tanker in violation of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (HMTA) and lying to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Lawrence Guerain Fleming, 37, of Fairfield, charging him with two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The indictment was unsealed following Fleming’s arrested on May 19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced on that Tuesday, May 18, 2021, that TYREET JOURNEE, age 29, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced following his earlier plea of guilty to a one-count indictment. In the indictment, JOURNEE is charged with possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities today announced 11 criminal cases against alleged drug dealers who sold or provided narcotics to users who suffered fatal overdoses from opioids such as fentanyl or fentanyl analogues.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - Lon Edward Preston, Jr., of Harrison County, Mississippi pleaded guilty today to knowingly possessing a firearm after having been previously been committed to a mental institution, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca of the Southern District of Mississippi and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF".).
By State Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: PREMIER EGEDE: Secretary Blinken, it has been a pleasure to have you as a guest in my country, in Greenland. This year, we will celebrate Kangerlussuaq’s 80-years anniversary. It was built by the U.S. Army Air Force in 1941. It shows as a great symbol of our shared history and the evolution of our relationship.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with importation of all varieties of fresh melon fruit with stems (Cucumis melo) from Japan into the United States. Based on the analysis, the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A federal jury convicted an Itasca County man today on charges of assaulting an individual with his vehicle, resulting in serious bodily injury, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment today charging MICHAEL KELLEHER with distributing fentanyl that resulted in the death of a victim...
By Interior Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Arlington, Va.- The Netherlands Carillon is one step closer to achieving “grand carillon" status. The National Park Service (NPS) and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands today lifted the new Marshall Bell into the carillon, celebrating a major milestone of the project to restore the bells and carillon tower. When the restoration is completed this fall and all 53 bells are installed, the Netherlands Carillon will be a “grand carillon.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Doon, Iowa, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on May 17, 2021, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By USDA Newswire | May 20, 2021
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2021-06To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory OfficialsEffective May 20, 2021, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will prohibit the importation of certain plant parts of all banana and plantain species (Musa spp.) and Abyssinian banana (Ensete ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire roofing contractor was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with failing to report income from his roofing and siding business to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOE Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: On May 20, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced the 17 teams chosen to participate in the 2022 Marine Energy Collegiate Competition: Powering the Blue Economy™ ).
By Commerce Newswire | May 20, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the Greer Commission of Public Works, Greer, South Carolina, to construct a new pump station needed to accommodate the expansion...
