News from March 2022
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - More than two decades after receiving its first transuranic (TRU) waste shipment, EM ’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP ) is undergoing major upgrades necessary to continue its mission for decades to come, including improvements to aging infrastructure and construction of the new Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS).
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 15, 2022
An employer who reportedly let a pipelayer work in unsafe conditions in an unprotected construction site trench was cited for safety violations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and may face more than $200,000 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer, and Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), along with House Minority Whip and Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-LA), Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: New South Associates, Inc. and the National Park Service seek descendants or other persons with knowledge of individuals interred in the Robinson Cemetery and the Raine “Slave" Cemetery, two nineteenth-century to early twentieth-century African American cemeteries in the Appomattox Courthouse National...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) this afternoon introduced H.R. 7007, a standalone supplemental to help manage the coronavirus pandemic at home and around the world.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park hosted 3,885,230 recreation visits in 2021, the highest number of recreation visits for one year in the park’s history. Previously, 2018 had the record for the most recreation visits in a year with 3,491,151. Recreation visits in 2021 exceed the 2018 record by 11% and surpassed the 2018 record in September 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Aleksandr Maslov, 40, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 24 years and four months in prison, for his involvement in an international credit card fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
FY22 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Projects grant opened on March 15.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Bret Baier on Fox News Sunday to discuss the administration’s efforts to rejoin JCPOA and U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian people in defending themselves against Russia.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
Release: The world has been transfixed as Russia has perpetrated a premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine. Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine has resulted in widespread human suffering and casualties, including the deaths of innocent civilians, including children. Today, the Department of State is continuing to impose severe costs on Russian military leaders.
By Kaleb Brown | Mar 15, 2022
Joe Sery, the former owner and CEO of Tungsten Heavy Powder and Parts, a San Diego-based company that provides weapon-grade components for U.S. military contracts, was charged with violations of federal export laws outlined in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Pushing and Attempting to Punch Officers.
By Press release submission | Mar 15, 2022
ational Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy challenged local advocates and safety leaders Tuesday to "fight like hell" and use the “Safe System Approach" to reduce rising deaths and injuries on our nation's roads.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYTHRONE FORD, 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 110 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in the attempted robbery of a New Haven restaurant, during which an employee was shot, in April 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A landmark provision authored by U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to significantly enhance our nation’s ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity threats against critical infrastructure...
By Savannah Howe | Mar 15, 2022
Russian aircraft are barred from American airspace in response to the Russian invasion of the democratic state of Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg woman was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for her role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A woman and a man from Springfield, Illinois, Brandy Friday, 36, and Brent Garner, 42, both of the 1200 block of South Livingston, have pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute five grams or more of actual methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Mar 15, 2022
Registration is now open for this year’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Drone Symposium, which will be held on April 28, 2022.
