News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022



Portsmouth Tests Electric Mowers to Cut Emissions, Enhance Safety

News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - EM ’s Portsmouth Site recently evaluated the use of electric mowers to provide a safer, greener future for grounds maintenance activities. Emissions from gas- and diesel-powered mowers are an estimated 30 times worse than emissions from cars and trucks, and mower engine efficiencies...


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Request for Information for the 2023 Trafficking in Persons Report discussed on Dec. 8 by State Department

The US State Department published a five page notice on Dec. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Release: GREEN BAY, Wis. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hosting a recruiting event Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Appleton to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB) and Appleton International Airport (ATW).



Secretary Walsh announces new partners, action plan, support  for international worker voice initiative

News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh today announced that Argentina, Canada, Germany, South Africa and Spain have joined the Multilateral Partnership for Organizing, Worker Empowerment and Rights initiative and that the effort has established a new action plan and that the U.S. has exceeded its 2021 pledge of support. The M-POWER initiative remains the largest U.S. government commitment to advance worker empowerment and support trade union rights in the global economy.


News Release: FAIRBANKS - Jared Wilkes Post, 26, of Fairbanks was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 78 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay at least $100,000 in restitution for defrauding banks and other victims of over $100,000 through a sophisticated check kiting and identity theft scheme.


Blinken: 'Political stakeholders must put Sudan's national interest above narrow political ends'

Norway, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States welcomed an agreement on an initial political framework in Sudan.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Jim Risch today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide detailed information to Congress about the U.S. assistance provided in response to Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression administered by the State Department and USAID.


Molecules Have an Orientation, and Scientists Have a New Way to Measure It

News Release: In some materials, the molecules line up in a regular, repeating pattern. In others, they all point in random directions. But in many advanced materials used in medicine, computer chip manufacturing and other industries, the molecules arrange themselves in complex patterns that dictate the material’s properties.


News Release: NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging NERICK DIAZ-QUESADA, 24, of New Britain, with cocaine trafficking and firearm possession offenses.


Memphis Murder Suspect Captured by U.S. Marshals In Missouri

News Release: Concord, NH - Early this morning, Daren Keith Gragg, Sr., 43 years-of-age was arrested in a family member’s apartment on Pembroke Drive in Derry, NH. Mr. Gragg was being sought on a State of New Hampshire Parole Warrant. Gragg was on parole as a result of being found guilty and sentenced in connection with multiple firearm related offenses. Additionally, Gragg has an outstanding arrest warrant for stalking issued out of the Manchester Police Department.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of a high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) consortium. The HALEU Consortium will help inform DOE activities to secure a domestic supply of HALEU-a crucial material needed to develop and deploy advanced reactors...


Springfield Felon Indicted for Illegal Firearm, Meth Trafficking

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a firearm and methamphetamine to distribute.


Neal Celebrates House Passage of the Respect for Marriage Act

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act...


Raimondo: 'I commend NOAA's dedicated scientists, hurricane hunter pilots and forecasters'

This year’s Atlantic hurricane season officially ended Nov. 30 after producing eight hurricanes.


Northeast Hospital Agrees to Pay $1.9 Million To Resolve Allegations of Controlled Substance Recordkeeping Violations

News Release: BOSTON - Northeast Hospital Corporation (Northeast), part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, has agreed to pay $1.9 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that Northeast violated the Controlled Substance Act (the CSA) by failing to keep accurate records of controlled substances, including opioids.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing today of an indictment charging RIKESH THAPA with operating...