News from February 2022
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: (DILLON, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dillon Field Office is conducting a 15-year evaluation of its 2006 Resource Management Plan and welcomes public input as part of the process.

By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
2022 TIP Office Notification of Funding Opportunity - PEMS Statement of Interest grant opened on Feb. 8.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Protecting Youth Mental Health: Part I - An Advisory and Call to Action.".

By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya and Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lisa Peterson will visit Tallinn, Estonia, February 9-11 for the third Global Conference for Media Freedom. Co-hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign...

By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $1.2 million to Pennsylvania from Section 7721 of the Plant Protection Act as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jason Edmonds, age 43, of North East, Maryland, with conspiracy and bribery. Co-defendant John Conigliaro, age 60, of Kingsville, Maryland was separately charged with conspiracy in an Information filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $4.7 million to Florida as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Kent, Washington man, a Seattle, Washington man, and a Portland, Oregon man, have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Obtain Controlled Substances by Fraud.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Rural Community Development Initiative grant opened on Feb. 8.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating more than $3 million to Texas as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Southern District’s opioid enforcement efforts achieve exceptional results.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new report that examines older householders’ sources of income, the amounts of this income, and how much each source of income contributes to total income. The report focuses on six types of income (Social Security, Supplementary Security Income (SSI), pensions and retirement accounts, property income, earnings, and other income).

By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Dear Mr. President:. We write to you to express our concerns with the deteriorating humanitarian, political, and security situation in the Sahel, and the urgency for developing and implementing an effective and comprehensive strategy. We also urge you to soon appoint a seasoned diplomat with experience...

By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya and Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lisa Peterson will visit Tallinn, Estonia, February 9-11 for the third Global Conference for Media Freedom. Co-hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign ...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: The undersigned members of the Media Freedom Coalition express their deep concern at the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities’ attacks on freedom of the press and their suppression of independent local media in Hong Kong.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Chair Cheri Bustos delivered the following statement at today's hearing titled “A Hearing to Review Farm Policy with Undersecretary Robert Bonnie.".

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Oxford, MS - An Illinois woman was sentenced Monday to 84 months in federal prison for her role in a shoot-out that occurred on South Lamar Boulevard in Oxford in May of 2020 and resulted in a Deputy U.S. Marshal being shot when law enforcement officers attempted to arrest her boyfriend on an outstanding murder warrant out of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: DETROIT, MI.- The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has resolved its investigation into allegations that Ascension Providence Hospital and an Ascension-affiliated medical facility, Washington Primary Care, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying patients with disabilities from bringing their service animals into their facilities, U.S. Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Felicia Johnson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years of probation for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.