News from February 2023

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: A former Memphis Police Department (MPD) officer pleaded guilty in federal court in the Western District of Tennessee to one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law for assaulting an arrestee in January 2021.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: A man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a December attack on his girlfriend, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Vantaggio Farming Corporation, for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to two produce sellers in the amount of $1,156,456 from March 2020 through November 2020.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
FY23 IIJA Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Plant Conservation and Restoration Management Program grant opened on Feb. 15.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
BIL - Notice of Intent (NOI) to Issue DE-FOA-0002881 Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Ride and Drive Electric, Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement grant opened on Feb. 15.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 13, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today $18,914,00 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go to the District of Columbia to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water. A total investment ...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: From Durham, KS, take 5th St west out of town and then continue westward on the paved road (which becomes 285th St) approx. 1.3 miles. Significance: Cottonwood Crossing is one of the more famous and difficult stream crossings on the Santa Fe Trail and a “jumping off point" for proceeding...

By Fed Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Biddeford man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to possession of child sexual abuse materials.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh has made several appointments and changes to the staffing of the appeals boards that review a variety of workplace and worker rights claims. The actions will increase efficiency, ensure workplace justice and improve the quality of services provided to the nation’s workers and families.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
Release: The Government of Nigeria has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of commercial shipments of oha leaves (Pterocarpus mildbraedii) into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
Enhancing Sebha Airport's Aviation Security grant opened on Feb. 15.

By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
Release: The United States and Romania are strong Allies and partners. The United States established diplomatic relations with Romania in 1880 following Romania’s independence, and 2022 marked the 142nd anniversary of this relationship. After the 1989 revolution ended communist rule, the United States and Romania...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Brian Jesus Hernandez, 24, of Tucson, Arizona, was arrested and charged Monday, with Dealing Firearms Without a License and Possessing Firearms Not Identified by a Serial Number.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to Mosaic Technologies, Cameron, Wisconsin, to install more than 70 miles of broadband fiber optic cable in Barron and Washburn counties...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 14, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $24,420,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water across Missouri.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew M. Peeples, 44, of Pine, Arizona pleaded guilty and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 12 ½ years in prison for receiving child pornography. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by 30 years of supervised release.