News from May 2022
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2022
CWMD: Academic Research Initiative (ARI) grant opened on May 3.
By USDA Newswire | May 3, 2022
International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program (CA) grant opened on May 3.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: Ten years ago, with funding from a National Park Foundation grant, Obed Wild and Scenic River launched its “National Park in Your Backyard" program for the sixth grade students of Morgan County. During the first eight years of the program over 2,000 sixth graders participated in the program, but the programs did not occur in 2020 or 2021 due to the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced to 140 months in prison for conspiring to distribute large amounts of heroin, cocaine, and crack in Camden, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Robot technology is providing new ways to monitor the integrity of underground double-shell waste-storage tanks at the Hanford Site.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on May 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Reuben Maurice Crawford, age 36, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 110 months in federal prison following his convictions for unlawful use of communications facilities in furtherance of drug trafficking activities and possession of contraband in prison. The Court further sentenced Crawford to serve one year of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a business meeting to consider several pieces of pending public lands-related legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Six people were arrested in Kern County today following a year-long investigation of a Bakersfield-based drug trafficking organization that distributed methamphetamine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Wide eyes and eager note-taking hands lined the perimeter of a large conference table in Oak Ridge. Dari Gabriel, a senior environmental engineering student from Benedict College in South Carolina, was one of them.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - A federal grand jury in Columbia returned a 3-count indictment against David Bryant, III, 24, of Columbia, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing a stolen firearm, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By USDA Newswire | May 3, 2022
Release: Laboratory animal welfare was a concern for Americans even before the news told the story of Pepper, a family’s dog that was stolen and died at a research facility. That event galvanized the public and prompted legislative action to pass the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (now the Animal Welfare Act). In 1985, research animals again were a focal point of public and Congressional interest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: Five members and associates of a violent white supremacist gang, the 1488s, were convicted today in Alaska by a federal jury of RICO conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, kidnapping, and assault.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Stauber (R-Minn.)and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Blake Moore (R-Utah)sent a letter to U.S. Department of the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Hampshire announced that the Honorable Jane E. Young was sworn in on Monday as the United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire. Chief U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty administered the oath of office at the federal courthouse in Concord.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Rajeim Ali Bradshaw, age 49, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Republican leaders of the Senate and House Committees with oversight of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are raising concerns with a recent decision to severely restrict coverage of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Alzheimer’s treatment and any similar future treatments, in a disturbing break with precedent.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former associate of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings), and owner of multiple apartment buildings utilized by the Latin Kings, commonly referred to as “trap houses," pleaded guilty yesterday to racketeering and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Shanta Johnson, age 44, of Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty yesterday to aiding in the preparation of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2022
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Three brothers and another man, all from Carthage, have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
