News from October 2022

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - If you do not carry National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) insurance, now is the time to buy it. Wildfire season is slowing down, and once the fires are out, people and communities are at risk for another threat, flooding. Wildfires leave the ground charred and unable to absorb water.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Oct. 27, 2022) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Petroff Trucking Company, Inc., for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act. The company has agreed to purchase and secure 15.5 wetland acres to compensate for wetlands it destroyed in East St. Louis, Illinois.

By US DOT Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge this week sentenced three men for being felons in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Acting Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Muse, age 44, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on Oct. 26, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to five years’ imprisonment for armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DERECK CELESTIN, JR., age 37, a resident of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty on Oct. 25, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to a two-count indictment which charged him with distribution of methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B), and 841(b)(1)(A), announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.

By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
Release: Summary: The United States’ priority is to ensure that Ukraine has the weapons it needs to defend its territory against Russia’s further invasion. Helping to ensure Ukraine maintains control of its territory is a primary means to limit potential illicit diversion of weapons by Russia’s forces, Russia’s ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was convicted of possessing a loaded firearm, and possessing with intent to distribute controlled substances on three different occasions, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Karen Kidd | Oct 28, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced $150 million for infrastructure improvements at Idaho National Laboratory aimed at enhancing nuclear research and development will support the U.S. leading position in the industry.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal jury in Portland found a local man with several prior felony convictions guilty today on multiple drug, gun, and money laundering charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Reading man and a Saugus man have been arrested in connection with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
Release: Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Bonnie Jenkins and Japan’s State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Ota Fusae have announced deeper cooperation to support the deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) and other advanced reactor technologies in partner countries.

By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, welcome to Canada, and welcome to Power and Politics.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Jackson, TN - Bobby Joe Brown, 42, of Obion County, Tennessee has been sentenced to 30 months in.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Michel Cercone was sentenced to 151 months in prison for conspiring to distribute Schedule I and II controlled substances, and to launder drug trafficking proceeds, between 2017 and 2019, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old Houston man has been taken into custody on charges of sex trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: Company Fraudulently Obtained Over $24 Million by Overstating Collateral.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: A man who drove a vehicle while his codefendant leaned out the window and shot and killed a man was sentenced Thursday in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today. The Secretary and the Prime Minister discussed the close partnership between the United States and Canada on various issues, and the progress we have made together on the goals laid out in the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership.