News from May 2013
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairwoman Claire McCaskill (D-MO) highlighted a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park to Conduct a Debris Pile Burn/Structural Fire Training Exercise Debris Pile Burn/ Structural Fire Training Exercise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of criminal charges Tuesday against August John Stile, Jr. age 49, of Hughestown, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: FCI MCDOWELL INMATE FOR ALLEGED ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - High school students from Custer recently practiced trigonometry by mapping part of the world's sixth-longest cave. Fourteen students from the school's pre-calculus class used a compass, clinometer, and measuring tape to collect data in the cave before using their trigonometry skills to develop a cave map.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Trevorn Renel Parkins, age 21, of Buffalo, New York, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg charging him with the transportation of minors and traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Gregory William Bell, age 54, of Weld County, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis T. Babcock to serve 30 months in federal prison for false bank entries, bank misapplication, bank fraud, and money laundering, the United States Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Terrence Boyle sentenced WINSTON ANTONIO EVANS, 29, of Smithfield, North Carolina, to 123 months imprisonment followed by 6 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: Former Maury County Correction Officer Derek Wayne Turner, 38, of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to charges of conspiring to introduce contraband and controlled substances into a jail, in exchange for cash payments, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD F. WILSON, 29, of Newtown, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 280 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for producing, trading and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned on May 1, 2013.
By State Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: Royce Highlights Shared Values, Shared Threats.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation today made a funding opportunity available for applied science grants through the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement after President Barack Obama nominated Tom Wheeler to be the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, May 1, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI -Curtis Boggs, 54, formerly of Harrison, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 27 months in prison, ordered to pay $352,745.21 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Armando Duenez, 31, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions for conspiracy to export firearms and failure to appear, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Duenez, who pleaded guilty Jan. 30, 2013, was employed as a police officer with the Rio Hondo Police Department during the offense.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released new findings from the Richard Windsor emails showing that former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson impersonated the alias Windsor in email correspondence. Findings also show Jackson corresponding with environmental groups and other non-EPA officials from the Windsor account.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in Duluth, a 37-year-old Cold Spring man was sentenced for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it and for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm. On April 30, 2013, United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Monday, Apr. 29, 2013, Vernon Luke Bowser, 46, of Gray, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 240 months in prison for his role in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation announced it is seeking applications for its Cooperative Watershed Management Program to assist with the establishment or expansion of watershed management groups. The Cooperative Watershed Management Program provides funding for watershed groups to encourage diverse stakeholders to form local groups to address their water management needs and is part of the WaterSMART initiative.
