News from October 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced today that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the Commonwealth of Virginia to supplement commonwealth, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by flooding, landslides and mudslides that occurred Aug. 30-31, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Dermot Shea, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Defendant Attempted To Engage in Child Sex Trafficking, Possessed Voluminous Child Pornography And Attempted To Produce It, And Traveled To Cambodia To Engage in Sex With Children.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) invites the public to discuss preliminary ideas under consideration for the possible development of trails and other recreational infrastructure in the area of Denali National Park between the Nenana River and George Parks Highway (Alaska Route 3). This area of the park...
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
Release: More information about Botswana is available on the Botswana Page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Sections of the Bajada Loop in Saguaro National Park’s Tucson Mountain District (west) will once again be closed between October 28th - November 10th.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price:.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: A Nocona man named a person of interest in the 2015 disappearance of a local 18-year-old was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison for preying on the boy when he was a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Survivors of Hurricane Ida now have until Nov. 29 to apply for individual assistance with FEMA.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA) have entered into a cooperative agreement to help facilitate regular, robust and meaningful dialogue between Tribes and the NPS. Strengthening relationships with Tribal governments is a cornerstone of the...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Moving from a bright, sunlit day, an intrepid duo descends into the dark, dry and seemingly deserted workings of an abandoned mine. One leads the way, gingerly stepping on uncertain ground in the darkness with the other following closely behind. Donning masks to filter the air in the potentially toxic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A Culpeper woman, who went online in an attempt to hire a hitman using bitcoin, was arrested today on federal criminal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Brittany Huizar, 20, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was sentenced in federal court today to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release for assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. A grand jury indicted Huizar on Nov. 4, 2020, and Huizar pleaded guilty on March 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Spokane - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that David Barnes Nay, age 42, of Prosser, Washington, was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2021, after having pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute eight...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A federal grand jury returned a six-count Superseding Indictment charging ten defendants from Westmoreland, Allegheny, and Lawrence Counties in Pennsylvania with violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A San Diego, California, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury after smuggling nearly eight pounds of fentanyl aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Missouri.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) sent a letter to the Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Kiran Ahuja, Acting Director of the White House Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to initiate a Department of Justice investigation into whether EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. violated federal law by failing to disclose information after using taxpayer funds to perform gain-of-function research on potentially deadly pathogens in Wuhan, China.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ- Petrified Forest National Park to Host the 2021 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree on November 9th.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2021
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
