News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Mexican national with an immigration history of prior removals and felony convictions was sentenced today in federal court for illegally reentering the United States, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa gang member was sentenced Tuesday for conspiring with others to collect firearms and exchange them for marijuana to sell on the black market, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released the total number of 2020 Census paid temporary workers that earned any pay Sept. 19 - Sept. 25, 2021. The data tables include national totals for all 50 states and the District of Columbia by Census Bureau regional geography. A weekly number of paid temporary workers for Puerto Rico is also available. The weekly release will occur 10 days after the end of the weekly period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Harrisburgh, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Tyler Darnell Norman, a 26-year-old Harrisburg man.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: The Department of State has awarded Pernix Federal, LLC of Lombard, Illinois the $319 million design-build contract for the new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria. The 12.2-acre site for the new Consulate General is part of Eko Atlantic, a development led by South Energyx Nigeria Limited in collaboration...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: MS LACQUA: (In progress) discussion of the Blue Dot Network and how it can catalyze quality infrastructure investments to actually build back better. I’m Francine Lacqua, editor at large and anchor at Bloomberg and your master of ceremony for this high-level panel. Now, I am absolutely delighted to be...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced that the House Natural Resources Committee will mark up a pair of bills to strengthen regulation and oversight of offshore oil drilling on Wednesday, Oct. 13, and hold an oversight hearing on Thursday, Oct. 14, on abandoned offshore...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of EM leadership recently visited Catholic University’s Vitreous State Laboratory (VSL), a contributor to key innovations in the vitrification technology central to Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) in Washington state.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - South Florida federal prosecutors have charged a Davie, Florida company specializing in wholesale reptile sales and its owner for their roles in a scheme to unlawfully enrich themselves and others by smuggling illegally-harvested Florida turtles out of the United States and into China, Japan, and other places.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul questioned Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Former White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker, Former NATO Ambassador Douglas Lute on the Biden Administration’s failed leadership in Afghanistan at a full committee hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: CLAREMORE, OK - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration following the death of a 19-year-old worker at a Valmont Coatings' facility in Claremore found the company failed to use proper rigging equipment and perform inspections and maintenance on cranes. The worker was attaching multiple small steel I-beams to a large lifting fixture when the entire assembly fell on him.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after Attorney General Merrick Garland’s disgusting memo instructing the FBI to treat parents concerned about Critical Race Theory (CRT) as “domestic terrorists"...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WILKES-BARRE- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Buglio, age 46, of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr., to two months of imprisonment and a one-year term of supervised release that includes four months of home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge. Codi Lee Douglas, 26, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: “This is a special institution, a special organization heading to its 60th anniversary… A very powerful forum for coming together, working together on real solutions to the problems that our citizens face, as well as the opportunities."
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott announced the following addition to and promotions for the Democratic staff of the House Agriculture Committee...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), House Foreign Affairs Asia-Pacific Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Chabot (R-OH) and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD) introduced the “Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability Act of 2021" or BURMA Act.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined business and civil society representatives for a discussion on the Blue Dot Network and the imperative to raise standards in infrastructure investment on October 5, 2021. Secretary Blinken and co-panelists Yves Perrier, Chair of Amundi, Brendan Bechtel, CEO of...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The Douglas Forest Protective Association (DFPA) and the Roseburg District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will officially end the 2021 fire season on Wednesday, October 6th at 12:01 a.m., for lands under their protection and management. The end of fire season is a result of recent wetting rains and an overall cooling trend which has returned to the area.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell on recovery efforts following Hurricane Ida, as well as the need to invest in climate resilience efforts to mitigate future disasters, especially for frontline communities. The hearing highlighted that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and catastrophic, driven by climate change.
