News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Kansas City, Mo., man who moved to Mexico and lived under another name, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to producing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER DENDIAS: (Via interpreter) Dear Minister, for the second time today I’d like to welcome you to Athens.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Reclamation's February forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: BOISE - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found Boise tax return preparer Andres Sanchez, 33, guilty of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of six false or fraudulent tax returns on behalf of several clients, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today. Senior U.S. District...

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Our nation is a melting pot of diverse perspectives and backgrounds, but its origins are rooted in the First Nations, now recognized as comprising the 578 federally recognized Native Alaskan Village and American Indian Tribal governments. The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Introduction. Inverted topography is a classic type of landform in the American southwest with its young monogenetic volcanic fields and rapid arid-land erosion. Many volcanic deposits, whether they are lava flows or ash-flow-tuffs, flow down river valleys and topographic lows and even fill them. Because...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
FY23 COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program grant opened on Feb. 22.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: Introduction. Calderas are collapse features that form during large-volume volcanic eruptions when the underlying magma chamber is partially emptied and the ground above it subsides into it. Calderas may form in both silicic (dacitic to rhyolitic) and mafic (basaltic to andesitic) volcanic systems, leading...

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - Disaster Recovery Centers in Butts, Henry, Jasper, Meriwether, Newton and Troup counties will close Saturday, Feb. 25, but that does not mean that FEMA is leaving the state.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
BJA FY 23 Invited to Apply - Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance (EFLEA) Program grant opened on Feb. 22.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will participate in a virtual moderated conversation on “Russia’s War on Ukraine: One Year Later" with The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg at 11:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Kevin Shibilski, 61, Merrill, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today launched a two-day joint workshop as part of this year’s first Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC) Senior Officials Meeting, which the U.S. is hosting in Palm Springs, California. This year marks the first time the U.S. has hosted APEC since 2011.

By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER DENDIAS: Dear Secretary of State, it is with great pleasure that I welcome you in Athens. It has been almost a year-and-a-half since our Third Strategic Dialogue in Washington. In the meantime, we have seen war returning to Europe with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We have also witnessed a revisionist rhetoric in defiance of international law emanating from a number of international actors.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
A former Memphis Police Department officer faces up to 10 years in prison for assaulting and injuring a man who was in custody.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexis Hawkins, 46, of Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter while armed in the Aug. 14, 2022 killing of Cynthia Stewart and one count of assault with a dangerous weapon in an unrelated case, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
NRCS' Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2023 - New York grant opened on Feb. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Israel Garcia-Cocotle, also known as “Israel Cocotle Rayon" and “Israel Cococle-Garcia," 33, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty today to the felony offense of reentry of a removed alien and was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Garcia-Cocotle will be remanded to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation proceedings at the conclusion of his sentence.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Geospatial Modeling Grant grant opened on Feb. 22.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2023
Release: QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, Putin announced today he would suspend cooperation with New START. Do you have a reaction and do you see this as a sign he’s going to breach the limits of the treaty?