WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recognized outstanding employee performance April 22 in the first in-person Commissioner's Annual Award Ceremony since 2019, in D.C. "The people and accomplishments we are recognizing are representative of the amazing things CBP does every single day, across the country, and around the world," said Troy A. Miller, Senior Offici  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: HOUSTON -- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston field office, with assistance from ERO Guatemala and the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement (SAFE) Task Force, removed an unlawfully present Guatemalan fugitive wanted for aggravated robbery from the United States on April 29. Santos Alfredo I  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Campaign to Target New Audiences in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Haitian and Vietnamese Languages FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will launch its 2024 Hurricane Season Campaign on April 29 and will target new communities using culturally competent messaging. The campaign communicates flo  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: CHARLES WHITE ("WHITE"), age 32, a resident of Jefferson Parish, pleaded guilty on April 25, 2024, before Chief U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and quantities of cocaine base, fentanyl, and methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 841(a)(1), 841(b)(1)(B), 84  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHANIQUA PAGE WILSON ("WILSON"), age 33, a resident of Laurel, Maryland, was sentenced on April 24, 2024, by United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to four years of probation after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 371 a  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 1 -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued the following news on April 29, 2024: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill defeated another activist challenge from environmentalists seeking to undermine Louisiana's economy. On Monday, April 29, in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a three-judge panel dismissed the Sierra Club's frivolous challenge to Louisiana's approval of permits for an LNG export facility along the Calcasieu Ship Channel. "The law is clea  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on April 29, 2024: Today, Administrator Isabel Casillas Guzman, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the voice in President Biden's Cabinet for America's more than 33 million small businesses, named Iam C. Tucker of Integrated Logistical Support, Inc. (ILSI) in Louisiana as the National Small Business Person of the Year for 2024 at the National Small Busin  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: * * * Editor's note: An earlier version of this news release listed award recipients from a previous year. This news release has been corrected. * * * The National Park Service today awarded $23.4 million to 39 projects in 16 states and the District of Columbia as part of the Historic Preservation Fund's African American Civil Rights grant program, which focus  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, May 1 -- Gov. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, Governor Kristi Noem and 52 of her fellow governors oppose legislation that disregards gubernatorial authority over the National Guard, Legislative Proposal 480. The bipartisan group of governors sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The full letter can be found here. Governor Noem understands the importance of her role as Commander in Chief of the Sou  more

WIESBADEN, Germany, April 30 -- U.S. Army Europe and Africa issued the following news release: Approximately 1,600 U.S. Army Soldiers and more than 200 U.S. Army vehicles started their 900-kilometer road march from Narvik, Norway, to Rovajarvi, Finland, today, marking the start of the ground phase of exercise Immediate Response 24. Transiting across Norway, Sweden and Finland, the Soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), based at Fort Johnson  more

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, April 30 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana issued the following news release: ROBERT C. METZLER ("METZLER"), age 60, was sentenced on April 23, 2024, in connection with a two-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute carisoprodol and possession with intent to distribute forty (40) grams or more of fentanyl and a quantity of cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana, in violation of Titl  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 30, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.3 million grant to Ascension Parish Government in Gonzales, Louisiana, for roadway infrastructure improvements at the RiverPlex MegaPark. This grant will support clean energy business growth in the region. This EDA inves  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 1 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland over "concerning comments [he] made regarding our country's elections and election security laws passed by the states." The letter was led by the States of Indiana and West Virginia and warns the DOJ against its "intimidation and fearmongering." The letter highlights Garland's claim that democracy is under attack b  more