WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office is easing seasonal fire restrictions effective today on all BLM-managed public lands extending from the southern Owens Valley in Inyo County, north to Topaz Lake and the Nevada border in Mono County. The order rescinding the fire restrictions can be found here. The California statewide Fire Prevention Order rem  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: RENO, Nev. -- On October 10, 2023 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will open a 30-day public comment period to inform the direction of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (EA) that will cover a range of Special Recreation Permits (SRPs) for Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) events on 8,879 miles of roads and trails in Nevada.  "The programmatic EA will streamline the   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Nevada Department of Corrections - Silver State Industries have announced a saddle-started wild horse and burro adoption event at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) on Saturday, October 14, 2023. Up to 20 saddle-started wild horses, and one burro, trained by the NNCC inmates, will be offered for adoption. The once-wild h  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a free public tour of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, October 27, 2023. Attendees will have the opportunity to view wild horses gathered from overpopulated herds in Nevada and Oregon. The privately owned and operated corral is located Fallon, Nev. which is approximately a 90-min  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Matthew M. Graves, issued the following news release on Oct. 12, 2023: Rushan Lavar Reed, 46, and Celeste Nicole Reed, 26, both of Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested on charges, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., related to the alleged sale of illegal drugs and the laundering of the drug proceeds. The charges were announced today by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, and Special Agent in Charge Wayne Jacobs of the  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Oct. 10, 2023: A Nevada woman pleaded guilty on Friday to assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns. According to court documents and statements made in court, from 2015 to 2020, Jessica Avras operated a Las Vegas tax preparation business. During that time, Avras prepared and filed false returns that fraudulently reduced the income tax owed and/or inflated the tax refunds due to her client  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 12 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, Jason M. Frierson, issued the following news release on Oct. 11, 2023: Rene Morales and Hector Vasquez were each sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for violating the Clean Air Act during the renovation of a Las Vegas warehouse into a marijuana growing facility. Both men pleaded guilty earlier this year to violating the Clean Air Act by releasing toxic asbestos fibers into the air during the renovation work. Inh  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 14 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, Jason M. Frierson, issued the following news release on Oct. 13, 2023: A Nevada man was sentenced yesterday to two years and four months in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $500,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program loans that the Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, and then launderi  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Kenneth L. Parker, issued the following news release: Two leaders of a prolific online drug trafficking organization were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati to 16 and 18 years in prison. Khlari Sirotkin, 39, of Colorado, was sentenced on Oct. 11 to 192 months in prison. Sean Deaver, 39, of Nevada, was sentenced in August 2023 to 216 months in prison. The two men are leaders of five defendants charged i  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 11 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: Low-interest federal disaster loans are available to Nevada businesses and residents affected by Hurricane Hilary that occurred Aug. 18 - 24, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. SBA acted under its own authority to declare a disaster in response to a request SBA received from Gov. Joe Lombardo on Oct. 6.   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Oct. 14 -- The White House issued the following remarks on Oct. 12, 2023, by Vice President Kamala Harris in a moderated conversation with Annie Gonzalez during the National "Fight for Our Freedoms" tour at the College of Southern Nevada: * * * THE VICE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. (Laughter and applause.) Can we hear it for Pio? (Applause.) Oh, it's good to be with everybody. Please, let's have a seat. MS. GONZALEZ: Hello. THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hi, friend. (Laughs.) MS. G  more