News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Bodie Island and Cape Hatteras Lighthouses will open on Friday, April 19, 2013. Guided tours will be offered at the Bodie Island Lighthouse and visitors can climb the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse at set intervals. The lighthouses will remain open through Columbus Day, Monday, October 14. Tickets are required.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: APRIL 09 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On April 8, 2013, Derneval Rodnell Dimmer, 36, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 228 months in prison for his involvement in two separate cocaine investigations. The court also imposed a ten-year period of supervised release that will follow the nineteen-year prison term, which was noted to provide long-term protection of the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing considering the nomination of Marilyn Tavenner to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that FRED STEVENS, 56, of Easton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a Fairfield County mortgage fraud scheme. STEVENS also was ordered to serve three months in home confinement after his release from prison, and to pay a $7,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - Several eastern Kentuckians defrauded state and federal benefit programs out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to plea agreements filed in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brian Gaither, 25, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 32-year prison term on a charge of first-degree murder in the kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Latisha Frazier, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service will be conducting several activities during the 2013 National Scout Jamboree scheduled July 15th through 24th at the Summit Bechtel Reserve adjacent to the park. The park is recruiting for volunteers to: assist with trail building and supervising of scouts constructing new...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join Hammond High School art students as they showcase their nature art at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Paul H. Douglas Center on Saturday, April 13, from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. These students have studied the flora and fauna of the national lakeshore during the semester...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) highlighted an annual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that identifies potentially overlapping, duplicative, or fragmented government programs,...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Burke, 43, of Deming, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to a felony information charging him with accepting a bribe announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Ervin J. Frankson, Special Agent in Charge of the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park has extended the deadline to April 25 for bids for the concession contract that provides commercial visitor services at Flamingo, located 38 miles from park headquarters. The prospectus addresses the operations and provides lodging, camping, tour boat, canoe/kayak...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census, chaired by Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX), will hold a hearing on the Federal Employee’s Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). The hearing, which follows the Oversight Committee’s work on federal employee compensation, will review the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) administration of the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Ambac Also Agrees To Reduce Its Net Operating Losses By $1 Billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Walker and Rodney White, both 24 and from Washington, D.C., were found guilty by a jury today of first-degree murder while armed and other offenses stemming from a shooting at an apartment complex in 2008 in which a woman was killed and a man was wounded, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Ivan Joe Golladay, 33, of Effingham, IL, was indicted on April 2, 2013, on gun related charges in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL MARTARANO, 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for trading child pornography on the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Oregon, announces that the Vessel Master of the Adfines East plead guilty to operating a commercial vessel under the influence of alcohol in the Port of Portland. Today, Valeriy Sharykin, 62, a Russian citizen, and captain of a Maltese freighter plead guilty before U.S. Magistrate John V. Acosta.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Miami County was sentenced Monday to 12 months house arrest and five years on probation for failing to pay income taxes on money he made as a consultant in Iraq, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Devils Tower, Wyoming - Due to an unusually high volume of snow and ice, park officials have temporarily closed the Monument. Several additional inches of snow are expected this afternoon and evening.
By State Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in observance of Yom Hashoah.
