News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: On March 29, the BLM Billings Field Office released its draft resource management plan for a 90-day public review and comment period. As part of the review and comment process, several open houses are being held throughout the area to answer questions and gather comments from the public that will be used to develop the final plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 39-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Last night, in a proceeding convened in a Boston hospital room, a federal magistrate read criminal charges against Dzhokar Tsarnaev and advised him of his legal rights. Following reports of this proceeding, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released this statement...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service announced yesterday that the launch of the Nature in My Neighborhood initiative at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was cancelled for today due to the forecast of thunderstorms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Oglala, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly damaging a vehicle belonging to the U.S. General Services Administration in March 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Flagstaff, AZ, April 23, 2013 - Willow Bend Environmental Education Center and the Flagstaff Area National Monuments - Sunset Crater Volcano, Walnut Canyon, and Wupatki - are one of 34 recipients across the country selected to receive a 2013 America's Best Idea grant from the National Park Foundation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX --- On April 22, 2013, Arthur Victor Smith, 20, of Peach Springs, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 140 months imprisonment, followed by lifetime supervised release. Smith, a Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation member, pleaded guilty on Feb. 5, 2013, to sexual abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Eminence, MO- Beginning Monday, April 29th, the Alley Spring and Round Spring Campgrounds will be undergoing a paving repair project.For visitor safety, the venture requires restricting some access to the campground areas, so contractors can do their work throughout the week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Jay Odom, 56, of Destin, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier to six months in federal prison for his conviction on one count of causing a presidential campaign committee to make a false statement to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Additionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Maylene man to 14 years in prison for two 2012 bank robberies in suburban Birmingham cities, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The EPA yesterday filed comments on the State Department’s recently issued draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline criticizing the extensive review of the project. EPA objected to the State Department’s draft statement citing “insufficient...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The EPA yesterday filed comments on the State Department’s recently issued draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline criticizing the extensive review of the project. EPA objected to the State Department’s draft statement citing “insufficient...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WADIH EL HAGE, a United States citizen, was resentenced today in Manhattan federal court to life in prison for his participation in al Qaeda conspiracies to murder U.S. nationals and government employees that...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: New Report Summarizes Status of Natural, Historic and Cultural Resources.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) expressed concern today over news that the Department of Energy has seized $21 million from Fisker Automotive. Fisker was the recipient of a $529 million...
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the below statement following House Speaker John Boehner’s announcement that Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye will address a joint meeting of Congress on May 8...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A judge today sentenced a U.S. Army officer to two years’ probation, to include six months of house arrest, and fined him $25,000 for making false statements to a department of the United States and for stealing government property, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Southeast Field Office, Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to W. Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) regarding recommendations in a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on FEMA's...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The EPA yesterday filed comments on the State Department’s recently issued draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline criticizing the extensive review of the project. EPA objected to the State Department’s draft statement citing “insufficient...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sixteen people have been arrested on a federal indictment charging twenty-one defendants involved in a multi-state car theft conspiracy. The conspiracy is alleged to have utilized several different schemes to steal and misappropriate vehicles, commit bank fraud in order to obtain vehicles and obtain insurance proceeds by staging accidents and filing false theft reports.
