News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
Jamie Kalani English, 55, of Hana, Maui, and Ty J.K. Cullen, 41, of Waipahu, Hawaii, pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to separate Informations charging each of them, respectively, with one count of honest services wire fraud.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small today unveiled a resource guide to help people in rural America start and grow businesses, create good-paying jobs in their communities and strengthen America’s economy.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
Bonnie Lou Breeden, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a drug distribution enterprise, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
A Columbus, Ohio, man pleaded guilty in federal court this morning for making threats to a local reproductive health services facility.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance to identify the individual responsible for a bank robbery on Tuesday, February 15, 2022.At approximately 5:31 p.m., an unknown male entered First Financial Credit Union, 2700 San Mateo Boulevard NE.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has added new experts to the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) investigating the June 24, 2021, partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
In the beginning, all that Stephan Schlamminger wanted to do was to write down an equation that would help him obtain a more precise value for G, the gravitational constant that determines the strength of the attraction between massive objects.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
By many measures, 2020 — a year dominated by an emerging pandemic and overrun with natural disasters — was bad for business.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
Thank you Chairman Doyle, Chairman Pallone, Ranking Member Latta, Ranking Member Rodgers, and members of the Subcommittee for the opportunity to speak with you today.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced a new initiative to improve U.S. government coordination on spectrum management.
By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2022
Cedarwood oil can be found in many consumer products—perfumes, soaps and deodorants among them.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
The Flagstaff Area National Monuments will host a birding event from February 18th-21st, 2022 in conjunction with the 25th annual Great Backyard Bird Count.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
On Monday, Feb. 14, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., the Outer Banks community is invited to join Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) rangers at a drop-in volunteer beach cleanup event.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is revising the conditions for interstate movement of citrus fruit from areas quarantined for both sweet orange scab (Elsinöe australis, SOS) and citrus canker (Xanthomonas axonopodis, CC) to allow movement of fruit to packing houses located in contiguous states that are not quarantined for either disease.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending the Karnal bunt regulated areas in Maricopa and Pinal Counties in Arizona.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) are establishing five new quarantine areas for citrus canker in Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris Counties, Texas, and expanding two existing quarantine areas for citrus canker in Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris Counties, Texas, to prevent the spread of the disease.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Pale Cyst Nematode (PCN) Eradication Program in Idaho has posted its 2021 fourth quarter report (October 1 – December 31, 2021).
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in birds in two states – a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky, and a backyard flock of mixed species birds in Fauquier County, Virginia.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the expansion of wild bird surveillance for avian influenza to include the Mississippi and Central Flyways.
