FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Contract Audit Agency issued the following news: Mr. David Hoffman received the Grechanik-Collins Award, DCAA's highest award for non-audit personnel, in recognition of his tremendous impacts to the agency. Mr. Hoffman is the DCAA Deputy General Counsel and has almost 40 years of legal experience with the United States Army and other Federal agencies. Mr. Hoffman joined DCAA in 2005 and quickly identified ways to improv  more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The subject of an Enforcement and Removal Operations D.C. targeted operation received a five-year federal prison sentence June 27 at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for a man guilty of receiving child sexual abuse material and assaulting a federal officer. Deportation officers from ERO D.C. apprehended Jhoan Esau   more

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: PHILADELPHIA - The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will evaluate a Biennial Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise for communities around the North Anna Power Station. The exercise will occur during the week of July 15, 2024, to assess the ability of the Commonwealth of Virginia to respond to an emergency at the n  more

BROOKLYN, New York, July 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York issued the following news release on July 8, 2024: This afternoon, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Yue Zhou is scheduled to be arraigned on an indictment charging her with murder-for-hire. Zhou was arrested on June 5, 2024 in the Eastern District of Virginia and removed to the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Today's proceeding will be held before United States Magis  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, July 9 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release on July 8, 2024: * * * Kim Sawyer will serve as the lab's fifth director, succeeding Stuart Henderson * * * Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, today announced that Kim Sawyer will become the new director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, effective Aug. 2. Sawyer will serve as the lab's fifth director in its 40-y  more

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia, July 9 -- The U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico issued the following news: By Shaemus Sawyer, Marine Corps Base Quantico U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael L. Brooks relinquished command of MCBQ to Col. Jenny Colegate during a change of command ceremony at Little Hall, July 2. "I refer to Marine Corps Base Quantico as a village," Brooks said, "and I do that on purpose. It's not all about the capabilities, but those [people in Quantico] who involve themselves; t  more

LYNCHBURG, Virginia, July 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia issued the following news release: A Lynchburg, Virginia man, who distributed nearly 75 grams of pressed fentanyl pills, was sentenced last week to 12 Years in federal prison. Elijah Pollard, 25, previously pled guilty to possessing pressed fentanyl pills with the intent to distribute. According to court documents, after repeatedly making controlled purchases of pressed fentanyl pills from Poll  more