News from April 2022
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that the public comment period on the proposed Smokies Parking Tag, camping fee, and day-use facility rate changes has been extended through May 11 due to an upcoming network outage that is scheduled to occur from April 29 through May 1. The online portal for comment submissions won't be accessible during this four-day outage. Written comments can continue to be submitted throughout the comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - After a two-day trial in United States District Court in Mobile, a federal jury on Wednesday, April 21, announced a guilty verdict against a man stopped on I-10 in Baldwin County in June 2020 and found in possession of about $400,000.00 worth of methamphetamine, also known as “ice".
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today adopted two new rules for light bulbs, also known as general service lamps, that will conserve energy and help consumers save on their energy bills. The first rule establishes a revised definition of general service lamps while the second implements...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Manzanar National Historic Site will sponsor an 6-week long Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program this summer. Youths 15 to 18 are encouraged to apply, provided they do not reach their 19th birthday before July 30, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A supervisor of a Boston-area drug trafficking organization (DTO) pleaded guilty today to his role in a cocaine and cocaine base (crack cocaine) trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Mexican men have been ordered to prison following their convictions of conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens which resulted in multiple deaths, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and the Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations and...
By Press release submission | Apr 26, 2022
APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Pale Cyst Nematode (PCN) Eradication Program in Idaho has posted its 2022 first quarter report (January 1 – March 31).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Joseph Grigsby, age 51, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on April 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Bessemer man charged under the “Kingpin" statute, and three other defendants, on charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise involved in the large-scale distribution of illegal drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - On April 25, 2022, United States District Court Chief Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced Esmeralda Vidana to ten years imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Anne Milgram, the Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today the unsealing of drug-trafficking and weapons charges...
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
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 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting Director Lawrence Tabak demanding the NIH investigate Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance for a cover-up and possible fraud related to research at the Wuhan lab.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
Release: Moderator: Good day from the U.S. Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila. I’m the Hub Director, Zia Syed, and I want to thank you all for joining this briefing. Today, we are pleased to be joined from Washington, D.C. by Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, at the U.S. Department of State.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
The US State Department published a one page notice on April 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado has concluded that it will not pursue federal criminal charges against Southern Ute Police Department officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old resident of Allison, Colorado, on Sept. 12, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced the decision today after reviewing all of the available evidence and notifying the family of the individual involved.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: A local Dallas cell head who worked with the Santa Rosa Lima Drug Cartel and other Mexico-based drug trafficking organizations was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
