News from March 2013
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill today that would advance efforts for Taiwan to obtain observer status at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Assembly. The bill, an identical version of which was ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park joined with the sportsmen's group Trout Unlimited (TU) today to announce collaborative efforts underway on a stream restoration project for the Gros Ventre watershed. The project will remove an obsolete water diversion structure located near Kelly, Wyoming. The Newbold Dam-a...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Locust Projects, in partnership with Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), is pleased to present a site-specific installation by the New York-based collaborative duo Wade Kavanaugh & Stephen B. Nguyen. Known for undulating installations of twisted and gnarled paper that engulf spaces and surround...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: By re-affirming this year's across-the-board cuts and slashing even more deeply into critical priorities like schools, roads and bridges, and medical research, the House budget resolution is a blueprint for stalled growth, joblessness, and abandonment of American families.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rose Gill Hearn, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), Robert Panella, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shell Oil Company’s failed attempt to drill offshore in the Arctic last year was marked by a series of incidents and safety failures. Today, the Department of the Interior released its assessment of Shell’s 2012 drilling operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment charging four individuals with allegedly being involved in a scam to distribute misbranded drugs through businesses located in York County and conceal the unlawful profits has been unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester returned a three-count indictment charging Dawn Nguyen, 24, of Greece, N.Y., with knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms; selling and disposing of firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: The South Dakota Domestic Violence Coordinating Committee (SDVCC) has chosen Brendan Johnson as their Prosecutor of the Year. Brendan Johnson began his career prosecuting violence against women cases as a state prosecutor and has been the U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota since 2009. During this time the U.S. Attorney’s office has made human trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual violence a priority, and prosecution rates have increased.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA MARCH 16-31.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Joey White Eagle, age 32, of Fort Totten, North Dakota appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes on March 7, 2013 and pled guilty to Superseding Information that charged him with Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 6 months in custody, a $5,000 fine, restitution and a $10 assessment to the Victim Assistance Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 13, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, SCOTT TYLER WINCHELL, a 19-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. WINCHELL was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm. Seab Nolen, 51, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Join National Park Service rangers for the first full moon walk of the year on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 on Mt. Wanda, part of the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) in Martinez, CA. This free, two-hour program begins at 7:30 p.m. with a one-mile, moderately strenuous hike to watch the full moon...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Boone County man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. James Franklin Platt, 57, of Whitesville, Boone County, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty to charges contained in an indictment returned in October 2012. Platt admitted that on July 20, 2010, he possessed a.22 caliber revolver near Whitesville, W.Va.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Washington -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today detailed plans for the committee to begin developing a proposal to reform America’s tax code.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar seeking further information on the operations and activities of the Department’s Ethics Office.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s assessment of Shell’s 2012 Arctic exploration program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Former Internal Revenue Service employee Patricia Fountain, 35, Larry Ishmael, 40, and Calvin Johnson, Jr., 35, all of Philadelphia, PA, were found guilty yesterday of committing a series of tax refund schemes that defrauded the U.S. Government. A federal jury found each of the three defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Tulsa, Oklahoma - Today, STEPHANIE SPRING, 45, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, pled guilty to theft of funds from the Tulsa Public School district before United States District Judge John E. Dowdell at the Page Belcher Federal Courthouse in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
