NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Sept. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a six-count indictment charging TIMOTHY GREGORY, 42, formerly of Questa, New Mexico, with f  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration issued the following news release: * * * Pension plan unlawfully acquired real estate property * * * PORTLAND, OR - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon against Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. and R.B. Pamplin Corporation for jeopardizing millions of dollars in retirement funds for thousands of employees because of the unlawful acquisition of   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Portland District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Columbia River ports are asking for public comment on the draft plan to place millions of cubic yards of clean, Columbia River sediment in multiple Oregon and Washington locations. This "sand plan" is a combined draft Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that ensures sufficient capacity to pl  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: BOTHELL, Wash. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Rail Ridge Fire burning in Grant, Crook and Wheeler counties, Oregon. The state of Oregon's request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) was approved by FEMA Region 10 Administrator Willie G. Nunn on Saturda  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Sept. 10, 2024: A federal superseding indictment was unsealed Monday in the District of Oregon charging an Arizona man and three associates for conspiring with one another and others to devise and carry out a scheme that attempted to defraud the U.S. Small Business Administration out of at least $178 million in loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19   more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2024: A Portland, Oregon man with prior convictions for narcotics, firearms, and interstate prostitution was sentenced to federal prison today for possessing methamphetamine after he was caught by federal law enforcement, while on supervised release, with narcotics and a firearm. Anthony Ballard Jones, 42, was sentenced to 156 months in federal prison and five y  more