News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: New York, NY - Deputies and Task Force Officers from the USMS NY-NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force (NYNJRFTF) apprehended Randy “Popper" Jones, wanted for critically wounding an off-duty New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer during a planned robbery on Saturday. Tragically, Police Officer Adeed Fayaz, father of two, succumbed to his wounds and was pronounced dead Tuesday.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation selected two winners for the Water for America's Crops Challenge for their ideas to improve water delivery by reducing water seeping from canals.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Advancing Access to Justice for Morocco’s Underserved Populations. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0009362. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: CONCORD - Julius Clemente, 25, of Brockton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit firearms trafficking, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that QUINCY JACKSON, age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2023 for violating the Federal Gun Control Act, Title 18 United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). JACKSON was sentenced to 65 months of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a mandatory $100.00 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Verdell Yazzie, 31, of Tes Nez Iah, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 120 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Yazzie pleaded guilty to one count of Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A federal grand jury in Baltimore returned an indictment today charging a Maryland man with sexual exploitation of children and distribution, receipt, and possession of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Training and seminars for Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALFRED STEWART, age 34, of St. John the Baptist Parish, was sentenced on February 7, 2023 by United States District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter to serve a total of 97 months in federal prison for violations of federal firearms and narcotics laws.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (FEB. 9, 2023) – Laboratory results from field work conducted by EPA in St. Charles, Missouri, in January have identified the Ameren Huster Road Substation as a source of vinyl chloride and cis-1,2-dichloroethene contamination in the city of St. Charles’ Elm Point Wellfield. With the new sampling results, EPA will now require Ameren to address the contamination originating from the substation.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON -- In recognition of FEMA’s unprecedented response to the COVID-19 pandemic and following the Biden-Harris Administration’s determination regarding the end of the Public Health Emergency and National Emergency declarations, the agency announced today that all COVID-19 incident periods will close on May 11.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: CHICAGO - FEMA and Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) announced today that $48,004,943 in federal funding has been made available to Aurora Health Care, Inc. for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of April 4, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted a Virginia man today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare of over $1 million in prescription drug benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
BJA FY 23 Invited to Apply- Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program grant opened on Feb. 10.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass bipartisan legislation introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa and Rep. Mike Quigley, to amend the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to strengthen government openness and accountability.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
Release: The February 6th earthquakes that struck southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria have devastated millions. Within hours of the first quake, the United States, at the direction of President Biden, quickly mobilized federal agencies and partners to urgently provide life-saving assistance in close coordination with our Turkish Allies and partner organizations in Syria.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
