News from February 2022
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good morning, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to have my friend, the Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, here in Washington at the State Department, and the timing could not be better in the sense that we have an extremely productive already Strategic Dialogue underway - long scheduled, long time - but of course, we’re also here at a time of real concern for European security because of Russia’s aggressive posture toward Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Murrysville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court following his convictions for unlawful dispensing and distributing Schedule II controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Oregon/Washington Rangeland Resource Management grant opened on Feb. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that Yohanna Gonzalez-McFarlane, 40, of the Dominican Republic, appeared before Chief District Court Judge Robert A. Molloy and was sentenced on three counts of bringing illegal aliens to the United States for financial gain and for one count of transportation for prostitution.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Release: MS PORTER: Hello, good afternoon, and happy Friday, everyone. Thank you for joining the call. As we announced this morning, Secretary Blinken will travel to Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii next week for a series of bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral engagements to advance our priorities in the Indo-Pacific.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Sabino Ramos, 46, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: Hagatña, Guam - SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant CHRISTOPHER DE LEON GUERRERO, age 31, from Yigo, Guam, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for Attempted Enticement of a Minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) January 2022 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - John Wayne Drysdale, 69, of Minneapolis, M.N., has been sentenced to 180 months in prison for transportation of child pornography, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger also ordered Drysdale to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued its millionth airspace authorization for drone pilots to use busy airspace safely. The Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability (LAANC) automates the process for drone pilots to quickly gain authorization and provides Air Traffic professionals with awareness of where drones may be operating.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced a Twitter campaign entitled #CCPrisoners. During the 27 days of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Senator Risch will be highlighting 27 individuals who have been unjustly kidnapped, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation Fund: Global Trends in Democratic Erosion and Autocracy. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008552. Catalog...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: Portland, ME - Shovelers, snowblowers and plow trucks drivers were not the only ones out during Friday’s snowstorm. A team of U.S. Marshals, state and local authorities were out on the hunt for a wanted Biddeford fugitive.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Oregon Washington Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands grant opened on Feb. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Faulkton, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Cheyanne Mary Katherine Winning, of Montrose, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass - Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom has announced that the parking lot at Nauset Light Beach is currently closed for public safety. The January 29 blizzard has resulted in active erosion on the bluff below the parking area. Monitoring is in progress to determine when and how much of the parking area will reopen.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
Release: CINCINNATI, Ky. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a recruiting event Tuesday and Wednesday, February 8 and 9 to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) at Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: A felon with domestic abuse convictions who possessed firearms and ammunition was convicted by a jury on Feb. 3, 2022, after a one-and-a-half-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2022
News Release: In recognition of the 80th anniversaries of President Franklin D. Roosevelt issuing Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, and the opening of Manzanar in late March 1942, the National Park Service is hosting a Day of Remembrance virtual event and an on-site showing of part of photographer Shane Sato’s...
