News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - Michael Hall, 34, of Duplin County, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for charges related to drug trafficking and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today in federal court to access device fraud, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Last month, the DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) hosted a first-of-its-kind meeting of senior state and local officials to share best practices for protecting their citizens from radiological and nuclear (R/N) threats. These officials represented the 14 local jurisdictions...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) leaders during a base camp visit last week thanked firefighters and were briefed on efforts to control a wildfire that has been burning in the vicinity of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - DOE has collected more than 2,000 groundwater samples for analysis and removed 9,000 gallons of contaminants from the groundwater at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC) site located northwest of Los Angeles, California since 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the launch of the Public Safety Immersive Test Center in Boulder, Colorado, to spur the development and deployment of technologies critical to effective public safety response.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: A vulnerable spot in global commerce is the supply chain: It enables technology developers and vendors to create and deliver innovative products but can leave businesses, their finished wares, and ultimately their consumers open to cyberattacks. A new update to the National Institute of Standards and...
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, along with the Republican leaders of other key committees, wrote another letter to the Biden administration’s “Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Kasali Opabola, Jr., a Lake Worth, Florida tax preparer who failed to report his business income to the IRS, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay over $1.2 million in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $5 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Jayuya, Puerto Rico, for infrastructure upgrades in support of a new municipal asphalt plant.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man today admitted making threatening telephone and email communications to New Jersey state officials, judges, law enforcement officers, and attorneys, and phoning in false bomb threats to local and state government offices, a police department, two law firms and a commercial establishment, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on May 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (TUSK) has begun construction on approximately 2.5 miles of new boundary fencing in the park’s South Unit along its border with Las Vegas and Clark County parks and residential developments. The construction is part of the planning process...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights and U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya will travel May 17 – 22 to India and Nepal to deepen cooperation on human rights and democratic governance goals, and to advance humanitarian priorities. She will also discuss partnering with India and Nepal during this Year of Action for the Summit for Democracy. The delegation will include USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia Anjali Kaur.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2022
Release: FNSpress@usda.gov. SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service Western Region announced today the award of a $999,887 grant to the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) which administers the National School Lunch Program in...
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Provides Dedicated Funding for Safety Projects that Prevent Fatalities, Serious Injuries
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - After last week’s collapse of two unoccupied houses in Rodanthe, N.C., significant debris removal efforts are underway. Owners of the collapsed homes have contracted debris removal activities. Additionally, numerous volunteers and National Park Service employees, joined together to clean many miles of beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Sacramento, California, man, Tommy V. Tran, 28, of the 8000 block of Danbury Park Court, was sentenced on May 4, 2022, by United States District Judge Sue Myerscough to 180 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and for using a communication facility to commit a drug felony.
