News from August 2013
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: This year marks the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service and everyone is invited to join the party! The Southeast Utah Group of parks (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) will join the other 400+ units of the National Park Service in celebration...
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Seoul, South Korea - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a speech about economic statecraft and the new American internationalism at the Asan Institute.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: This year marks the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service and everyone is invited to join the party! The Southeast Utah Group of parks (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) will join the other 400+ units of the National Park Service in celebration...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - - A federal grand jury has indicted nine individuals in connection with a heroin distribution ring that allegedly operated in Cecil County, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York. The indictment was returned on August 7, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA) Recognition Day is Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. In honor of that day, the National Park Service, the Friends of Andersonville, and Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) are hosting the 8th Annual POW Convocation program...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: A Richland County man was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2013, to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: This year marks the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service and everyone is invited to join the party! The Southeast Utah Group of parks (Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments) will join the other 400+ units of the National Park Service in celebration...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service will celebrate its 97th birthday on Sunday, August 25. Entrance fees will be waived at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, giving visitors a chance to enjoy a late summer day in the park free of charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of North Huntingdon, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation; eight months of home detention with electronic monitoring; restitution of $14,639.86, and he has been ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 on his conviction of mail fraud, witness tampering and false statements to the government, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICTOR RAMOS, 31, of Waterbury, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Regina R. Evans, former police chief for Country Club Hills., Ill., appeared in federal court in Springfield again today to enter pleas of guilty to obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and conspiracy to obstruct justice and witness tampering in the federal investigation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of carrying a.40 caliber pistol in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Park Entrance Fees Waived for the Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Jeffrey Kesterson had more than 600 images of child pornography on two computers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: In Broad Daylight on Northeast Washington Street.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: Launched on July 23, 2001, the satellite lasted well beyond its original operational design life of two years for on-orbit storage and five years of actual operations to support forecasters and scientists in NOAA’s National Weather Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Brandis Rose Rose, age 37, from Pierre, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 14, 2013, and pled guilty to Theft of Government Funds.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management issued two Rapid Ecological Assessments (REAs) summarizing the conditions of the Central Basin and Range and the Mojave Basin and Range ecological regions.The REAs use existing scientific information and data to identify resource conditions and trends within an ecoregion...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: PRETORIA, South Africa - On Aug. 8, representatives of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Pretoria traveled to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to complete the transfer of approximately $126,000 in border security equipment, information...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2013
News Release: On Aug. 15, 2013, biologists excavated the first documented green sea turtle nest in the history of Biscayne National Park. Sixty six green sea turtle hatchlings were assisted from the nest and released in open water.
