News from June 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ -As a result of a series of breaks in the Trans-Canyon Water Pipeline, Phantom Ranch at the bottom of Grand Canyon continues to experience a water shortage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: The Cedar Rapids Safe Streets Task Force continues to make Cedar Rapids safer. United States Attorney Sean R. Berry reported the Task Force’s recent accomplishments at a press conference held at the Cedar Rapids Police Department. Other participants in the press conference included Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Thomas Metz, and Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was Previously Convicted Of Sexually Abusing Two Children Under Age 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Kevin Tyler, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 26, 2013 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride before the Honorable Stanwood Duval, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: JUNE 28 - ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Jennifer McGrath, 26, of Sacramento, California, was sentenced June 26, 2013, in U.S District Court 38 months in prison for her role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: MANHATTAN - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Mario Villanueva Madrid, the former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court. Villanueva Madrid received a sentence of 131 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today for the armed robbery of a Dorchester Metro PCS retail store in 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: NATCHEZ, MS - Beginning Monday, July 31, 2017, the Mount Locust Inn and Plantation site along the Natchez Trace Parkway will be open four days a week. Hours of operation will be Thursday through Sunday from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm and closed Monday through Wednesday.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their oversight of the implementation of the president’s health care law, writing to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding a recent update to the “Essential Community Provider" (ECP) list maintained...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that April Pretends Eagle, age 31, of Fort Yates, North Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on June 25, 2013 and pled guilty to Count III of the Indictment that charged her with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) settlement of lawsuits that seek to compel the agency to undertake new rulemakings, also known as “sue and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, N.J. contractor admitted today that he bribed a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official so that two companies with which he was affiliated could obtain favorable treatment from the VA, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their oversight of the implementation of the president’s health care law, writing to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding a recent update to the “Essential Community Provider" (ECP) list maintained...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Energy and Commerce Committee’s release of an advanced legislative framework to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system, leading members of Congress reacted with increased optimism on reforming the current Medicare physician payment system. Today’s announced legislative framework would repeal the SGR and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Website Designed to Honor 150th Anniversary of Yosemite Grant Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Roger K. Howard, age 50, of Englewood, Colorado, pled guilty recently before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to three counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On June 27, 2013, Brett Lee Roelandt, age 22, from Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 30 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Roelandt was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ricardo Mitchell, 33, of Temple Hills, Md., was sentenced today to 26 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder while armed in a slaying that took place in August 2011 in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, June 27, 2013-Step pack in time 250 years to get a realistic glimpse of the 18thcentury at a day-long history demonstration at Sandstone Visitor Center on Saturday, July 6th. Living history interpreters, led by Doug Wood, will show elements of the life of the Shawnee, especially...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) commended the Senate’s confirmation of three key positions: Brian Deese to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Dan Tangherlini to be Administrator of the General Services...
