News from April 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A McDowell County woman and a Virginia man were each sentenced to federal prison today for child pornography offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal jury convicted Defendant Stephon Cunningham, 43, of Cleveland, Ohio, of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition following a five-day trial before U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tia Stout, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) St. George Field Office hopes to improve public safety by approving the creation of parking and off-highway vehicle staging areas at Sand Mountain Recreation Management Area in Washington County. This decision authorizes a five-acre parking corral...
By Karen Kidd | Apr 4, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is slated to receive approximately $105 billion as its portion of President Joseph R. Biden's fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023) budget,
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Defendant Followed Victim’s Car, Stabbed Him After Vehicle Crashed.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management’s Phoenix District is planning a prescribed fire to burn cut and piled brush from about 80 acres of land northeast of Apache Junction, which is being referred to as the “Lost Dutchman Prescribed Fire." Fire personnel will burn on BLM lands surrounding State Route 88 near Hackamore Road and the Goldfield Ghost Town. Burning may occur over multiple days through April and May as conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
OVC FY 2022 Advancing the Use of Technology to Assist Victims of Crime grant opened on April 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man previously convicted and incarcerated on drug trafficking charges today was sentenced to more than four years in federal prison on additional and unrelated drug trafficking and firearm charges brought as the result of a Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty last week to illegal possession of a machine gun.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Brussels, Belgium, April 5 to 7, 2022, to attend the NATO Foreign Ministerial. At the Ministerial, the Secretary will have the opportunity to highlight NATO’s essential role in preserving Transatlantic security, including our joint efforts to hold President ...
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: With U.S. conventional weapons destruction (CWD) assistance in 2021, South and Central Asian countries worked to clear landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contamination, and secure weapons and ammunition stockpiles. Humanitarian mine action operations in Afghanistan continue despite the August...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
The House of Representatives section of the Congressional Record published “THE STRENGTH OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE” on March 31.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on an application from the U.S. Army to add 22,000 acres of public land to the Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona. The Army requests withdrawal and reservation of this land for a precision parachute safety buffer area that would support its national defense testing and training mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 1, 2022, MALEKE SOCKWELL, 27, of Waterbury, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes Tourism have partnered to offer Drop-In Volunteering, a no-hassle volunteer option for those looking to help out at the Indiana Dunes. Opportunities will be available nearly every day of the week and include stewardship, restoration, park clean-up, and more.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the appointment of Andrea Griswold as Chief Counsel to the United States Attorney.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
Release: The following is the text of a joint statement released by the Governments of the United States and Turkey.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) - An Environmental Assessment analyzing a proposed continued withdrawal of lands at the Zortman-Landusky Mining Reclamation Area in Phillips County, Montana, has been released by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 30-day public review and comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2022
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A local photographer with a history of sex offenses was sentenced in federal court to 18 years in prison for possessing child pornography, including images of young children he photoshopped to be sexually explicit.
