News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted a plea of guilty from Keith A. Kos, Jr., on Oct. 12, 2021, for the crimes of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Judge Autrey set sentencing for Jan. 18, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Keith A. Kos, Jr., of St. Charles, Missouri, pled guilty yesterday for the crimes of distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Sentencing is set for Jan. 18, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Social Security Administration announced Social Security benefits will increase by 5.9 percent in 2022...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Fredericksburg, VA - Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP will be adjusting visitor services beginning Oct. 24, 2021 for the upcoming winter season. Park grounds and outdoor spaces remain open and accessible, daily, for reflection and recreation from sunrise to sunset.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Today, President Joe Biden will be hosting a listening session on the global supply chain bottlenecks. This comes alongside news that the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will begin working 24/7, a move the administration hopes will alleviate the backlog of cargo ships. Yet while the Biden administration...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
Release: Four Projects Will Support Environmental Monitoring and Advance Federal Goal to Deploy 30 Gigawatts of Offshore Wind by 2030
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
Release: Today marks six years that Iran has wrongfully detained Siamak Namazi, a U.S. citizen who has committed no crime and has been held by the Iranian government for the better part of a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities run by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: AUSTIN, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against an Austin luxury car dealer for terminating an employee who warned managers and other co-workers about potential coronavirus hazards in the workplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: HARISBURG -Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) has awarded $172,076 to “PA Coalition Against Rape," located in Enola, Pennsylvania, to help combat sexual assault, and $98,706 to “PA Coalition Against Domestic Violence," located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to help combat domestic violence.
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the upcoming meeting between President Joe Biden and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta:
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, "Enhancing Public Health: Legislation to Protect Children and Families."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Kalispell man accused of taking sexually explicit photographs of a child while boating on Ashley Lake in Flathead County admitted charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Emily Bevard | Oct 13, 2021
The ivory-billed woodpecker has officially been declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alongside 22 other species
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Administrator Anne Milgram and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams announced yesterday the arrest of Malek Mohammad Balouchzehi, aka “Malek Khan," for conspiring to import heroin into the United States and distributing heroin for importation into...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management has removed its previous fire restrictions for BLM-administered lands within the boundaries of the Woods Creek Fire near Townsend.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: Detroit - State of Michigan-FEMA Disaster Recovery Centers in Dearborn, Detroit and Southfield will cease operations soon, but help is still available at two DRCs in Wayne County and a new Macomb County center opening next Tuesday, Oct. 19.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Carson City District Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamations, and Nevada Division of Forestry announce the lifting of fire restrictions that have been in place since June 30, 2021. This rescission affects public lands in 11 counties in western Nevada and eastern California. Restrictions will expire at 5:00 p.m., on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former San Bernardino County resident was sentenced today to 105 months in federal prison for providing approximately 1 kilogram of fentanyl and 1 kilogram of heroin in exchange for machine guns, grenade launchers and a case of what he believed were six dozen live grenades.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed today charges five alleged members of the O-Block street gang with participating in a criminal organization that murdered a Chicago rapper and violently protected the gang and its territories on the South Side of Chicago.
