News from October 2021
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded an additional $5 million in drought relief funds to the Klamath Project Drought Response Agency this month, adding to the $15 million previously awarded. KPDRA will distribute the $20 million from Reclamation this year to Klamath Project irrigators in Oregon and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: A 25-year-old Bartlesville man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court for sexually abusing a minor starting when she was 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Websites Operated By The New York State Department of Health, New York City Health + Hospitals, Nassau County and Suffolk County Presented Multiple Barriers To Access.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Rodolfo Ramirez, Jr., age 36, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on June 30, 2021, to Felon in Possession of a Firearm. United States District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released an early look at data from the Annual Survey of School System Finances. The data provide initial insight into spending per public school pupil (pre-K through 12th grade), as well as revenue and other school system spending details in 35 states and the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on October 4, 2021, Jeremy Digby, 41, of South Royalton was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss to 19 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, which will follow the term of imprisonment.
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul questioned Former White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker on the Biden Administration’s failed leadership in Afghanistan at a full committee hearing.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has awarded subcontracts valued at more than $1 billion to small and diverse businesses locally and nationally in the past four years.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Southwest Colorado Fire and Aviation Management Unit transferred a Type VI wildland fire engine to Gunnison County Fire Protection District to enhance their wildland firefighting capabilities. A type VI engine is one of the most common tools deployed in wildland fire response...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: The United States also Agreed to A $450,000 Settlement to Resolve False Claims Act Liability.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Richland, W.A. - Manhattan Project National Historical Park is partnering with Bike Tri-Cities, the REACH Museum, and Wheelhouse Bike Shop, to host the inaugural Ride with a Ranger program on October 9 at 9:00 am. Ride with a Ranger is a free, family-friendly interpretive bike ride along the Sacajawea Heritage Trail from Columbia Point Marina Park to the REACH Museum in Richland.
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 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Eric Iwu aka James, 32, a Nigerian citizen currently residing in Buffalo, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and member of the Appropriations Committee, and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), also a member of the Appropriations Committee, today announced a $1,855,200 grant from the ...
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 State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: (Via translation.). QUESTION: Hello, Antony Blinken. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Hello. QUESTION: Thank you for doing this interview. You just spoke with President Macron. It had been three weeks since he had met an American official. Three weeks ago was the beginning of the crisis when the announcement came ...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, and thank you all so much. Mathias, I must start by saying that to be linked to George Marshall is humbling, reminds me a little bit about how Allen & Rossi must have felt. And for those of you who don’t remember Allen & Rossi, that’s just the point. Americans in this audience may appreciate that they were the act that followed the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show many years ago. (Laughter.) But I do thank you, nonetheless.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Deuntrae Meshari Colley, Antonio Cooper, also known as “Antoine Cooper," Dexter Hancock, Daeqwan Ray Jackson, also known as “Daequan Ray Jackson," Donald Johnson, and Drashawn Mitchell, all convicted felons, have been charged with federal offenses, including possessing a firearm while being...
