News from November 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - FEMA has approved a grant of $1,016,712 for the state of Florida to reimburse Escambia County for the costs of its county-wide debris removal after Hurricane Sally.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury indicted Gregory Dixson, Jr., Gregory Dixson III, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez, Quintin D. Adkins and Ruben Sanchez Blanco to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Robert Reid, 26, pleaded guilty yesterday to an escape charge.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that OM Vegetable Inc. satisfied a reparation order in the amount of $17,518 issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) involving unpaid produce transactions.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James T. Cogle, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Jeffery L. Gorr, Sr. (Gorr) of Monroe, Mich., on June 21, 2021, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: ST. CROIX, USVI - U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that a St. Augustine, Florida woman was arrested on November 6, 2021 in St. Croix on criminal charges relating to her travel to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands from Charlotte, North Carolina via airline on November 6, 2021. According to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-An Oklahoma man has pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy that resulted in the trafficking of firearms to Mexican cartels as part of “Operation Thor’s Hammer," an effort to disrupt cartels’ access to firearms. Andrew Scott Pierson, 47, of Jay, Oklahoma, entered his guilty plea today before United States District Judge Brian S. Miller, who will sentence Pierson at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Acting U.S. Attorney William T. Stetzer announced today that Dallas Devon Leak, 28, of Wadesboro, N.C. was sentenced to 100 months in prison and two years of supervised release for a federal firearms offense.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Significant achievements at EM cleanup sites such as the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC ), Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL ) highlight EM’s mission progress in recent months, Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Nicole Nelson-Jean told an industry conference last week.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: WAYNESVILLE, N.C. - The deadline for individuals and households to apply for FEMA disaster assistance has passed, but work continues to support Western North Carolina’s recovery from Tropical Storm Fred.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A York County man was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for distributing heroin to two women who died from overdoses at his Seaford home and for possessing firearms and ammunition as an unlawful drug user who maintained a drug-involved premises.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule to implement an expansive critical habitat designation for the northern spotted owl.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California November 9, 2021- The Foothills area of Sequoia National Park will reopen on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, Veterans Day, at 7 a.m. for day use only. Veterans Day is the last fee free day for National Park sites around the nation for 2021. Sequoia National...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics today released Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices, 2018. This report provides data on the personnel, budget, workload and policies of medical examiner and coroner offices in the United States. The report details the number and type...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office (RL) awarded former cleanup contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA) approximately $13.9 million, or about 85 percent of the available fee for work performed at the Hanford Site in the final eight months of MSA’s contract with DOE.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: A drug user who possessed marijuana and a firearm was sentenced November 8, 2021, to federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: Gunnison, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado Gunnison Field Office welcomes Jon Kaminsky as the new Field Manager to the Gunnison Field Office in Gunnison Colorado. Jon will be responsible for the management and stewardship of more than 20 employees and 600,000 acres of public land in the upper Gunnison River Basin of southwestern Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2021
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky.- An Ashland man Steven Halley, 28, was sentenced to 152 months in federal prison on Monday, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
