News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ricky Lee Clark Jr., 29, of St. Albans, was sentenced today to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Michael Eugene West, 39, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 28, 2022, in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced West to 112 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, West will begin a 4-year term of supervised release.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DEA Gears Up for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

News Release: Memphis, TN -The Drug Enforcement Administration will host its 23rd National Prescription Drug Take.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today sent the following letter to Boston University...


News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - A Davenport man, Colique Depree Brown, age 28, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, for Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Following his imprisonment, Brown was ordered to serve three years of supervised release.


 On October 23, Brady Owens began a 120-day detail as the BLM Sierra Front Field Manager.“Having an opportunity to continue the legacy of multiple use and sustained yield of public lands in the Sierra Front Field Office is a supreme honor.


Construction work is underway to maintain and improve the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Eagle Creek Road in the Craig Mountain Wildlife Management Area east of Lewiston in Nez Perce County.


News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - David Abreu, of Fisher, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.



The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing an upcoming 2-day session for the Northern New Mexico Resource Advisory Council (RAC).


The Bureau of Land Management will temporarily close a two-mile section of the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail to protect public safety while crews remove trees that were damaged in the Hog Fire of 2020.


DOE-GFO offers new grant application process starting Oct. 27

Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002788 entitled Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) - 2022 grant opened on Oct. 27.


The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Battle Mountain District Office, Tonopah Field Office is announcing the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) to address potential environmental consequences associated with excess wild horses within and outside of the Stone Cabin Complex located in Nye County, Nevada.


Hastings Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine

News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Zachary D. Ellis, 28, of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Ellis to 120 months in prison for distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine (actual) and 50 grams or more of methamphetamine mixture. After serving his sentence, Ellis will be placed on supervised release for 5 years. There is no parole in the federal system.


Notice of Request To Renew an Approved Information Collection: Specified Risk Materials discussed on Oct. 26 by Agriculture Department

The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the Fiscal Year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding $5,315,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to six school districts in Indiana. The grants will ...


Thanks to widespread rain and cooler temperatures, Bureau of Land Management Medford District officials are reducing public use restrictions on BLM-managed lands in southern Oregon.


News Release: HOUSTON - A federal jury in Houston has convicted a 45 year-old Houston woman on two counts of drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that David Leroy Earls, age 36, of Tuskahoma, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 140 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for three counts of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country. Each count is ordered to run concurrently. The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.