News from March 2022

By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2023. The President’s Budget details his vision to expand on the historic progress our country has made over the last year and deliver the agenda he laid out in his State of the Union address-to build a better America, reduce the deficit, reduce costs for families, and grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: Budget Supports Department of Commerce’s Investments in Supporting Economic Growth and Making Communities More Climate Resilient The Biden-Harris Administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for fiscal year 2023. The President’s 2023 Budget for the Department of Commerce makes historic ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today that President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional assistance available to the state of Alaska by authorizing an increase in federal funding for public assistance projects undertaken as a result of an earthquake on Nov. 30, 2018.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve announced that the park headquarters, which includes the visitor center, vehicle entrance, parking lots, and historic building site will be closed to visitation April 9, 2022 to April 18, 2022 to allow for the paving of the parking lot and entrance...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office is in the beginning stages of analyzing motorized access for BLM-managed public lands in north Lewis & Clark County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: A federal court today ordered a Carneys Point, New Jersey company to stop distributing adulterated pet food in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Raymond Matthew Vance, 30, of Turlock and Fresno, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to four years and six months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating the terms of his federal probation, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
Release: The United States applauds recent expulsions of Russian intelligence officers by our partners in Europe and around the world. As our partners have outlined, these actions are in response to these individuals’ activities, which are in contravention of their diplomatic status, and the Russian Federation’s aggression in Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: A Total of 27 Firearms Recovered from the Defendant’s Home, Including a.357 Caliber Machinegun With an Obliterated Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to receiving illegal gratuity.

By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: In August 2021, as part of Vice President Kamala Harris’s trip to Singapore, the United States and Singapore agreed on the importance of creating a safe and transparent environment that facilitates space exploration, science, and commercial activities for all of humanity to enjoy. Vice President Harris and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong discussed opportunities to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of space.

By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
Public lands in Oregon and Washington offer a wide variety of recreational activities. Visitors can picnic in lush forests in western Oregon one weekend and then explore the most remote wildlands east of the Cascades the next.

By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office is taking measures to protect habitat for the endangered blunt-nose leopard lizard by temporarily limiting vehicle access to the Panoche Hills Recreation Area in Fresno and San Benito counties.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Joshua Mendez, 40, of New Laguna, New Mexico, and enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo, was sentenced in federal court on March 24 to three years and eight months for assault resulting in serious bodily harm and domestic assault by a habitual offender in Indian Country.

By Andy Nghiem | Mar 29, 2022
A China Eastern Airlines Boeing jet recently took a nosedive into the mountains of southern China leaving no survivors.

By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management Wheatland Off-Range Corral has postponed its scheduled April 1 wild horse and burro adoption event because some horses at the facility have an upper respiratory illness.

By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
The FBI Washington Field Office is warning parents and caregivers about an increase in incidents involving sextortion of young children.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
Release: The United States notes with concern the growing tensions in South Sudan, including recent clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Force’s (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement-In Opposition (SPLA/M-IO) in Upper Nile state. We call for both sides to observe fully their obligations...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2022
News Release: Defendant Thrust Lacrosse Stick at Officer.

By Press release submission | Mar 29, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 22, 2022, Rodney L. Yentzer, age 52, of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and theft of public money for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services between 2016 and 2020. Yentzer also agreed to pay $3,869,571.55 in restitution for these offenses.