News from April 2014
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD/MIAMI, Florida: Everglades National Park is pleased to announce the opening of, "Flight: Aloft in the Everglades," the next exhibit in a series of special Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE) exhibitions highlighting Everglades National Park's international designation as a World Heritage Site.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park on Sept. 1, 2014 will begin requiring reservations for all campers who wish to stay at the Tuweep Campground. After Sept. 1, visitors who plan to camp at Tuweep will need to have a permit issued by the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Millions of Gallons of Medical Waste-Contaminated Storm Water Released into Hawaii’s Coastal Waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John R. Faber, 28, of Wellsville, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to 40 months in prison and ordered to pay $3,143 in restitution to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W. Va. - A federal grand jury in Charleston, West Virginia, has returned a single count indictment against Regina Ancion, age 64, of St. Albans, West Virginia for theft of government money. The indictment alleges that Ancion forged social security checks made out to a deceased relative between...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Thomasha Mayfield was sentenced yesterday to more than 6 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: (ST. CROIX -, U.S. Virgin Island) -A federal grand jury in St. Croix has indicted 29 inmates at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional and Detention Facility for possessing illegal contraband, announced Ronald W. Sharpe, United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands; Vito S. Guarino, Special...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman. As you all know, this bill has a strong reputation for finding bipartisan common ground as members work together to fund the construction of military facilities and strive to improve the quality of life and care afforded to our veterans and military families. Once again, Chairman Culberson...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Ricky Nikki Beene, 38 of Haynesville, La., was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro:. Congress has long had an interest in the inclusion of women in clinical research. Prior Government Accountability Office (GAO) work informed the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, which called for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund research on diseases...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Attorney Sharon Anderson, 51, of Oakland, Tennessee, was sentenced to twenty months in federal prison yesterday after pleading guilty in September 2013 to theft from her clients’ trust accounts, announced U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Monroeville man has been sentenced in federal court to 108 months in prison at Count One of the Superseding Indictment, and 60 months in prison at Count Four of the Superseding Indictment to run consecutively, for a total 168 months imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms and drug trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Defendant Filed False Income Tax Returns in Names of Clients and Pocketed the Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Lenard Fleming, 33, a corrections officer with the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has been arrested and charged with bribery following an undercover FBI investigation in which he allegedly accepted money for smuggling contraband into the District of Columbia’s Correctional Treatment Facility.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today after Republicans obstructed Senate consideration of the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, a bill he introduced to raise the national minimum wage...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Terry Kevin Burton, 46, of Wilder, Idaho, and his son, Brent L. Burton, 22, of Homedale, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to theft of government property from the Malheur National Forest, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The Burtons were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on October 9, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor before the Senate voted on whether or not to consider the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, a bill he introduced to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: MONTREAL - Twenty-five individuals allegedly involved in a $30 million cross-border tobacco smuggling operation were arrested Wednesday following an investigation by Canadian authorities and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 30, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved four targeted bills that would improve and modernize the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The primary focus of these four bills is to promote data and cost transparency and species recovery.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the launch of 21st Century Cures, a new initiative that aims to accelerate the pace of cures and medical breakthroughs in the United States. Chairman Upton, along with committee member Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), ...
