News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Penn Hills, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 11 years' imprisonment on his conviction of federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: An Old Orchard Beach man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for distributing fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission will meet by teleconference on Tuesday, March 1, and Wednesday, March 2, 2022, to consider a range of issues related to subsistence hunting and fishing in the park.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Feb 14, 2022
Regional administrator Martha Guzman issued a statement on Feb. 4 regarding the drinking water emergency at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and plans for EPA inspections.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
Today, on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reaffirms our commitment to ending this human rights abuse and the gender inequalities that contribute to its prevalence around the world.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Feb 14, 2022
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced on Feb. 2 new plans to invest nearly $5 million into AFRI Foundational Knowledge of Plant Products in order to support new studies.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
The United States welcomes the offer announced today by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to begin negotiating a new Defense Cooperation Agreement.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Feb 14, 2022
A former Guam Army National Guard Soldier has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for the attempted enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Romanian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on racketeering conspiracy charges relating to an ATM skimming operation that stretched throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New York and South Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - How would you like to work, learn, play and serve in Yellowstone’s wonderland on its 150th anniversary? Yellowstone National Park is currently recruiting for the 2022 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a residential work-based education program for people between the ages of 15 and 18. Visit the YCC program to apply. Completed application materials must be postmarked by March 1, 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 14, 2022
A Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $650 million with bogus claims that investor money would be used to acquire licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix purportedly had agreed to distribute abroad.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
Release: Washington - 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 (non-poultry) in Fauquier County, Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has prepared the February snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Rare Earth Element Demonstration Facility grant opened on Feb. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Ronnie L. Rutherford, Jr., 45, of Fort Wayne, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady, on his plea of guilty to possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: Over 32 years, metallurgist falsified results on steel parts destined for 30 Navy Submarines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Anthony Doty, of Steubenville, Ohio, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to sell 48.53 acres of public lands east of Collbran, Colorado. The direct sale will resolve an outstanding trespass of an unauthorized reservoir and gravel pit on two isolated parcels of public lands managed by the BLM. The unauthorized...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation's advanced energy enterprise. Led by DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the OPEN 2021...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
