News from February 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mercer County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months’ imprisonment and 7 years’ supervised release on his conviction of Distribution and Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Shamar Banks pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute Schedule I synthetic cannabinoid controlled substances while in prison between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced $7 million in competitive grant funding for the Acer Access and Development Program (Acer) and the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields" program.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: FRISCO, TX - A Frisco residential builder received a hefty bill for unpaid overtime wages following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for seven violent armed robberies of Twin Cities businesses. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after Senior U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery sentenced the defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PECOS - On Tuesday, a Mexican national was sentenced to a total of 60 months in prison for unlawfully re-entering the United States after previously being removed by immigration authorities.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Celebrate Black History Month at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center this weekend, Feb. 19-20 at 1 p.m., and learn about the entirely black homesteading community of Empire, Wyoming.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorneys Trini E. Ross, of the Western District of New York, and Nikolas Kerest, of the District of Vermont, announced today that Lisa Miller, 53, formerly of Virginia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to international parental kidnapping, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 26-year-old former leader at Science Production Products LLC (SPP) admitted he committed a felony relating to importing and selling misbranded drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Richard A. Kirkendall (34, Oviedo) to 24 years in federal prison for using the internet to receive and possess images and videos depicting the sexual abuse and torture of children. Kirkendall was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Kirkendall had pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the violent MS-13 gang was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and for his participation in the murders of two teenagers in Massachusetts-one in 2016 in East Boston and the other in 2018 in Lynn-in each instance playing a critical role in repeatedly stabbing a teenager to death.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following President Biden’s remarks on the Ukraine-Russia crisis.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a seven page proposed rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Kevondric Fezia, 26, of Houston, Texas, has been found guilty by a federal jury in Lafayette on sex trafficking charges. United States District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. presided over the trial.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields" program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby presided over his final proceeding this afternoon in the U.S. District Court in Portland. Following the proceeding, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee issued the following statement on Judge Hornby taking inactive senior status.
