News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Aug. 23, 2013- A holiday weekend is a wonderful excuse to have an adventure in parks with family and friends, a last blast of summer. Explore the amazing public lands we have in the neighborhood by going on ranger-guided walks and informal talks in New River Gorge National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: PLANO, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 17 alleged members of a Colombian drug trafficking organization have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on President Obama’s response to reports that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against its own people.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Join Ranger Deanna for a back porch program that will focus on the impact that the Civil War had on the area that became the Big South Fork and the immediate surrounding area. Meet at 10:00 a.m. (EDT) on Saturday, Aug. 31, at the Bandy Creek Visitor Center at Big South Fork NRRA. Visitors will learn...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management has refined its wild horse removal estimate and is scheduled to begin gathering 15 - 25 wild horses from the Little Cliffs Wild Horse Range Sept. 3 to conserve range conditions for horses.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) released the following statement after the Department of Labor issued a proposed regulation to reduce the permissible exposure limit to silica...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Gabriel Daniel Morrison Mitchell, 32, of Norfolk, Va. was sentenced on Friday to 260 months in prison. Mitchell was convicted by a federal jury on June 22, 2012, on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery, carjacking, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Joel E. Miller, age 55, of Craig, Colorado, was arrested without incident today on charges of health care fraud, money laundering and distributing/dispensing controlled substances, federal and state authorities announced. Miller was indicted by federal grand jury in Denver on Aug. 21, 2013...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., bank chairman pleaded guilty in federal court today to misleading federal investigators about his use of $381,000 in bank bailout funds to purchase a luxury condominium in Fort Myers, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Anchorage was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: A free bluegrass music concert will be presented in a tent near the Bandy Creek Visitor Center on Saturday, Aug. 31, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. (EDT). Great Day in the Morning, a bluegrass group from Scott County, will be the featured group. The Hughett Family from Huntsville, Tennessee, will also be performing a selection of traditional music. Bring your own comfortable chair or a blanket to sit on the ground and enjoy the free concert.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Two people who conspired to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine were sentenced Aug. 22, 2013, to fourteen months and eight months in federal prison, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - STANLEY "OUTLAW" CARTER of St. Louis City was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on one felony count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and a second felony count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence imposed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BURTON DOUGLAS MORRISS pled guilty to tax evasion charges associated with his evasion of taxes on millions of dollars of income he earned between 2006 and 2009. According to his plea agreement, the tax liability Morriss attempted to evade in 2007 was $2,888,483. The total tax due and owing by Morriss for all tax years is $5,559,386.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: According to an Executive Order, approval of the Keystone XL pipeline’s permit requires a finding that the project “would serve the national interest." The State Department, which is tasked with making this determination, has been reviewing the project now for over 1,800 days. And after nearly five years of review, it is clear the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park has begun improvements to Cape Royal Road on the North Rim. Beginning Sept. 3, 2013 Cape Royal Road from Roosevelt Point to Cape Royal Point, at approximately mile 11.5, will be closed for repaving.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two La Monte, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today in separate but related cases that stem from an investigation into a Mexican drug-trafficking organization.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the final Endangered Species Act rule change issued last Friday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration that will not include a full economic analysis in the process of designating critical habitat for endangered and threatened species.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, the first eight months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, on her conviction of making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY--Women's Rights National Historical Park will offer Ranger guided kayak tours of the Cayuga-Seneca Canal on Aug. 31, September 7, and September 14.The tours will meet at the Women's Rights National Historical Park Visitor Center at 10 am.
