News from October 2021
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC: Anacostia Park, Kenilworth Park and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Fort Mahan, Fort Dupont, Fort Davis, Fort Chaplin, Fort Stanton, Fort Ricketts, Fort Greble, Battery Carroll and Shepherd Parkway.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the selection of recipients for more than $6.6 million in grants and cooperative agreements through the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production. These grants and cooperative agreements build on $4.1 million in projects funded in 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Homeland Security (HLS) program awarded funding for two collaborative projects totaling $1.5 million to develop advanced homeland security technologies in the areas of multimedia communications systems for first responders...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on October 4, 2021, Christian B. M. Crawford (age: 28) of Menasha, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for arson to a building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Moss Point Man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, introduced H.R 5477, the Federal Agency Climate PREP Act, to ensure the federal government has a comprehensive plan to tackle climate change.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has completed a spawning gravel placement project at Stanislaus River mile 58, about 30 miles northeast of Modesto in Tuolumne County. This project’s purpose is to improve Chinook salmon, steelhead, and rainbow trout spawning and rearing habitat below Goodwin Dam.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The United States today announced that it has reached an agreement to resolve civil claims against two Block Island residents: Perry C. Phillips, 31, and Benjamin C. Foster, 33, whose actions touched off a needless and expensive maritime search and rescue operation off the coast of Block Island.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Noncitizens can now schedule their initial check-in with ICE in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole and French, using the recently announced ICE Appointment Scheduler. The ICE Appointment Scheduler is a web-based, multilingual, and smartphone compatible appointment scheduler for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: For Being An Armed Career Criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County pharmacist has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for submitting more than $13 million in claims for medically unnecessary compounded medication prescriptions, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey accepted pleas of guilty from Thomas T. Taylor, age 35, on today’s date, for the crimes of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, and two counts of interfering with commerce by robbery. Judge Autrey set sentencing for January 5, 2022. At sentencing, Taylor is subject to imprisonment of not more than 20 years, a fine of not more than $250,000, or both such imprisonment and fine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s main contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) helped fund two centers for an area school district where students can stretch their imaginations while honing their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) skills by exploring electric circuit boards, tiny robots, and other unique gadgets.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Louisville, Kentucky, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Ray Morgan, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was indicted today on a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: By Commander, Naval Air Forces Public Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Mobile, Alabama man was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and interstate travel in aid of racketeering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
