News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces the Colorado Department of Public Safety will receive $4,564,438 awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice to fund efforts combatting gun violence.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The waste vitrification facility at EM ’s Savannah River Site (SRS) has completed a processing improvement enabling safer operations and more efficient conversion of high-activity liquid waste into glass.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today led 13 colleagues in reintroducing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Accountability and Transparency Act. This legislation outlines a comprehensive approach to cease U.S. contributions ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: In the mid-1960s James Etheredge and Thaddeus Bell joined a cohort of young African American men that the Department of the Interior recruited in an effort to diversify the workforce. The National Park Service assigned them to parks in the West, a region where most employees were white. Etheredge and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 30-year-old Providence man today admitted to a federal judge that he possessed more than 250 grams of fentanyl and a firearm, and did so less than a week after pleading guilty, in February 2021, to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
Release: By Cindy Long, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: U.S. agriculture owes many thanks to the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.), as it plays the crucial role of pollinator within the nation's food supply. Some of the nation's food industries rely solely on the honey bee, and it's estimated that the economic value of its pollination role is worth well over...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
Release: Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy Ambassador Nina Hachigian will participate in the Munich Security Conference, February 17-19, in Munich, Germany. This annual conference on international security will bring together Heads of State, government officials, international organization representatives, mayors, local government leaders, and security experts to discuss key global security policy challenges.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Following the release of the Congressional Budget Office's updated baseline projections, Glenn "GT" Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Valentine, 53, Holmen, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Valentine pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 24, 2022.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a seven page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Two Amazon marketplace sellers and four of their companies have pleaded guilty to price fixing DVDs and Blu Ray Discs.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced its latest actions to advance the President’s vision of building 500,000 EV chargers by 2030 and delivering a convenient, reliable, and Made-in-America electric vehicle (EV) charging network. These next steps - publishing minimum standards . .
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the below statement in observance of the twelve-year anniversary of the murder of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata. In 2011, members of the Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, ambushed Agent Zapata and...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: The Needles, Canyonlands National Park. Significance: Trail. Amenities. 1 listed. Trailhead. Unlike other Needles hikes, this trail traverses dry, open country along the northern edge of the geologic faults that shaped the Needles. The trail ends at a cliff overlooking the junction...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
Release: Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources Monica Medina will travel to London, United Kingdom, February 16-17 to participate in the Nature Action: Private Sector Mobilisation Event sponsored by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man was sentenced to 96 months in prison time followed by five years of supervised release after he admitted to possessing child pornography images.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Free junior ranger booklets are available at the visitor center, or you can download one below. Filled with fun activities, these books reveal the wonders of Arches to kids and parents alike. By completing five or more exercises and three adventures, participants earn a junior ranger badge and signed certificate. Activities are designed for all ages.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Emmett Miguel, 33, of Sells, Arizona, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 151 months in prison for Aggravated Sexual Abuse and a concurrent 120 months’ confinement for Abusive Sexual Contact. On Sept. 22, 2022, Miguel was found guilty by a jury of sexually assaulting the 17-year-old victim at a dance in Sacaton, Arizona, in January 2012.
