News from April 2022
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. April 21, 2022 - The Cedar Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park will not be opening on Friday, April 22, as scheduled, due to a significant rockslide on a portion of Highway 180 near Boyden Cavern (east of the cave at milepost 131) in Sequoia National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Karlett Salazar Zagal, 23, a citizen of Mexico living in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced a Health Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, April 27, at 10:15 a.m. (EDT) with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on the fiscal year 2023 budget request for HHS and its agencies. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2023 HHS Budget."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sergey Duman, age 45, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged in a criminal information with wire fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposal to reconsider and revoke the final approval of Arizona's State OSHA plan, in response to nearly a decade-long pattern of failures to adopt and enforce standards and enforcement policies at least as effective as those used by the department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Cardona: We write to express support for the steps you have taken to provide relief to student loan borrowers thus far and to urge you to build on those efforts by enacting meaningful and lasting reforms to the federal student loan system. The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met jointly today in Brussels with NATO Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoană and EEAS Secretary General Stefano Sannino. Deputy Secretary Sherman praised the strong NATO-EU coordination in responding to Russia’s ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Owensboro, Kentucky - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky returned a superseding indictment on April 5, 2022, charging 13 Kentucky residents with running large scale drug trafficking operations in the Owensboro area of Kentucky.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The operator of seven Oklahoma City-area taco shop franchises claimed that workers requested higher hourly wages rather than being paid overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek - an illegal agreement whether the workers consented or not - and as a recent U.S. Department of Labor investigation shows, is a costly error by the employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: For Mail Fraud. FORT WAYNE - Christina M. Morris, 50 years old, of Marion, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady on her plea of guilty to mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson. Morris was sentenced to 27 months in prison followed by 1...
By Kaleb Brown | Apr 21, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced April 14 that it was designating Cameroon for Temporary Protected Status, citing the continuing violence in the country as the reason for the designation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A Florida man was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida to 200 months in prison for illegally distributing opioids at his pain management clinic in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on April 14, 2022, Aron Lee Ethridge, 41, of Henderson, Nevada was indicted on charges of participating in a conspiracy resulting in the kidnapping of Gregory Davis, a resident of Danville, Vermont, on January 6, 2018. Ethridge had his initial appearance on this charge in the District of Vermont on April 20, 2022, and he has a detention hearing scheduled for April 25, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA), and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today asked the U.S. Department of Health and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Jesus Ramos, 48, of Sinaloa, Mexico, charging him with distributing and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, eutylone, hydrocodone, and ketamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
News Release: SAN JOSE - Xavier Robledo was sentenced in federal court today to 96 months in prison for distributing fentanyl that caused overdoses in two people and killed one, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Wade R. Shannon. The sentence was handed down by United States District Judge Beth L. Freeman.
By State Newswire | Apr 21, 2022
Release: The United States, our allies, and our partners worldwide are united in support of Ukraine in response to Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified war against Ukraine. We have not forgotten Russia’s earlier aggression in eastern Ukraine and occupation following its unlawful seizure of Crimea...
