News from August 2013
By State News Post | Aug 5, 2013
The US State Department published a one page notice on Aug. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Aug 5, 2013
The US State Department published a two page notice on Aug. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Subcommittee on Water and Power Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04) sent a to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell highlighting the lack of transparency surrounding the National Blueways Program and seeking...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced BRUCE WAYNE LORETTE, 34, of Leland to 360 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: On Aug. 3, 2013, a search was conducted for Nicholas Bull, 24, last residing in Midland, Texas. Nicholas had been hiking on the Marufo Vega Trail with two friends when the group ran out of water and became distressed. One member of the group hiked out to get help, and a search began that same day by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Howard E. Person, Jr., 35, of Washington, D.C., has been indicted for mail fraud and other federal offenses stemming from a $3 million embezzlement scheme in which he is accused of illegally obtaining and using his employer’s money for the purchase of a house, trips to Las Vegas and other locations, and other personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: Sheriff Miles Slack Secretly Intercepted Communications from Ex-Wife’s Supreme Court Computer, Federal Prosecutors Say.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to fraudulently receiving federal disaster benefits following the May 22, 2011 tornado.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE - The National Park Service and partners will unveil new site graphics for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore during a media event on August 8, 2013. Posters featuring some of the new site graphic logos will be distributed at the news event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mario Evans, 33, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced to 292 months in prison on Friday following his guilty plea to carjacking, using a firearm during a violent crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Samuel E. Sallee, age 55, a resident of Bartholomew County, has been brought into federal custody after being charged with illegally possessing a firearm. Sallee’s criminal history includes a number of prior felonies...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: Many in the electronics industry want to change how memories are made. So PML scientists are exploring the physics and developing the metrology required to do just that -- including an evaluative scan technique that is an order of magnitude faster than any comparably accurate method.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: On Friday, August 9 mountaineer and retired Denali State Park ranger Dave Johnston will do a slide presentation on his winter mountaineering experiences on Mt. McKinley and Mt. Foraker.The free presentation begins at 7:00 pm and is taking place in the Denali Visitor Center's Karstens Theatre.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: Exploding targets have started at least 16 wildfires since 2012 on Forest Service lands in 8 western states, with 7 of those fires occurring in the Rocky Mountain Region causing the federal government to spend approximately $33.6 million in suppression costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: Gregg Peterman, Supervisory Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of South Dakota, has received national recognition for his work in Indian Country. Peterman was one of 154 members of the Department of Justice (DOJ) who were recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director H. Marshall Jarrett.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: A Richland County man was sentenced on Aug. 1, 2013, to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom will speak on immigration enforcement and civil rights during the third annual Statewide Civil Rights Symposium Friday, Aug. 9, at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, LARRY D. HILL, JR., a resident of Rocky Mount, N.C., pleaded guilty before Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt to one count of conspiring to submit false claims for federal income tax refunds to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and one count of filing a false 2010 federal income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUEQUE - Louie Villegas, 48, of Desert Hot Springs, Calif., pleaded guilty this morning to a federal heroin trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Villegas will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2013
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA News Release. August 5, 2013. Release No.: 2013-55. Contacts: Christie Vanover, National Park Service, 702-283-2344. SEARCH UNDERWAY FOR MISSING SWIMMER. BOULDERCITY, Nev. - The National Park Service is searching for...
