News from October 2021
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO ‒ Occupational exposure to hazardous substances, such as asbestos, formaldehyde and cadmium, can lead to cancer and other long-term serious health diagnoses years after exposure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from phase 3.2 of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. This phase of data collection includes new questions on the Child Tax Credit, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), rent/mortgage arrears, utility arrears and restrictions, summer catch-up education activities for grades K-12 and preventative health care for children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: 29 Collection Sites Located Across Idaho Designated for Disposal of Prescription Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Attack Took Place in February 2019 in Northeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 21st National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 23 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event offers free and anonymous disposal of unneeded medications at more than 4,000 local drop-off locations nationwide.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: New Report: Democrats’ Spending Causing Sustained Increase in Bidenflation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui - Applications are now being accepted now through Dec. 17, 2021 for the Haleakalā National Park Community Volunteer Ambassador (CVA) year-long internship program. The CVA intern will begin their internship in February 2022 and support the Volunteers-In-Parks program at Haleakalā National...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, today led a press conference with other Republican members of both committees to share concerns raised by their constituents about a proposal to create a reporting scheme where financial intermediaries report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on customer deposits and withdrawals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Seven leaders of the Cape Town Zone of the Neo Black Movement of Africa, also known as “Black Axe," and an eighth man who conspired with a Black Axe leader, were charged with multiple federal crimes relating to internet scams they perpetrated from South Africa, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Survivors of the recent California wildfires, who are receiving rental assistance for temporary housing through FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program, may get additional help if needed.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: BYRON, IL - An inspection at a Byron rehabilitation and post-acute care facility found the healthcare facility did not comply with federal respiratory protection requirements in the facility’s quarantine area and failed to protect workers from coronavirus hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert Temple, age 52, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 19, 2021, to 40 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 4-year term of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for trafficking in fentanyl and other illegal narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ricky J. Patel, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security (“HSI"), announced today the arrest of FABRICE TONTISABO, a/k/a “Fabrice Williams" for persuading...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Jose Omar Sorto Portillo, a member of the Leeward Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, pleaded guilty to murder in aid of racketeering for his participation in the August 7, 2019 murder of 15-year-old Jasson Medrano-Molina. The proceeding was held before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Today the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture announced actions to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and surrounding watershed in northeastern Minnesota, a unique natural wonder and one of the jewels of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain funds from customer bank accounts.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern Interior Field Office, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, after consulting with the National Park Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Eastern Interior Regional Advisory...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Jacksonville man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine, possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm by a felon. On June 14, 2021, Robert Lee Henderson was convicted by a jury of those charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Superintendent Kevin Schneider has announced that Brandon Bies has been selected as the Deputy Superintendent of Acadia National Park and St Croix International Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2021
News Release: Defendants billed Medicare for expensive and unnecessary urine drug testing.
