News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Sanjuan Cortez Taylor of Bay Minette was recently sentenced following an April 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Taylor was previously convicted in Mobile ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Billings Bureau of Land Management (BLM), along with the U.S. Forest Service, the National Association of State Foresters, and the Ad Council announced today that they will be hosting an open house on August 9, 2014, at the Billings BLM wildland fire station to celebrate Smokey Bear’s 70th birthday and provide critical information to Americans about wildfire prevention.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Energy announced today that Grace Bochenek has been named the director of the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Saleh Stevens, age 41, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud, in connection with a scheme to embezzle over $3 million from the insurance company where he worked.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: The 22nd "Haunting in the Hills" Storytelling Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 20, in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The day's events will feature storytelling, craft demonstrations, workshops and sales, afternoon storytelling presentations, and performances of dulcimer and bluegrass music. The day will culminate with the evening storytelling session.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nyerere Mitchell, 50, pled guilty today to carrying out a scheme in which he offered rides to people who had been drinking, talked them into letting him withdraw cash with their ATMS and pin numbers, and then secretly held onto their bank cards to generate more than $200,000 for himself, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Patchogue, New York - On Saturday, August 16 from11:30 am -3:00 pm, Fire Island National Seashore will host a book signing event at the Patchogue -Watch Hill Ferry Terminal. William Floyd biographer Larry Lowenthal will be on hand to discuss and sign his recently published book,William Floyd, Long Island...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Law enforcement patrol boats at Biscayne National Park are being outfitted with rugged new computer systems. The new technology allows park rangers to connect directly into a central database for tracking crime related information. It improves public and employee safety, and saves...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty in federal court in Topeka Monday to a carjacking charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: This area falls within the predicted range of 4,633 to 5,708 square miles forecast by a suite of NOAA-sponsored models and confirms the accuracy of the models and their utility for guiding management of nutrients in the Mississippi River watershed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former manager of a Wichita massage parlor was sentenced Monday to five years on federal supervised release for transporting a woman from China to work as a prostitute in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, August 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Phloch Ouk, 46, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today to growing fifty or more marijuana plants, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), and Senate Foreign Relations Africa Subcommittee Chairman Chris Coons (D-DE) met with President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan in the U.S. Capitol.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former sales associate with the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for taking kickbacks from a real estate broker who sold properties on behalf of the mortgage agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men involved in setting an illegal campfire above Glendora that erupted out of control to become the destructive Colby Fire were sentenced today to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: - Tellers feared for their lives as defendant claimed to have a bomb.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Congressional Reception.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2014
News Release: Camping and Trail Access Advisory Regarding Bald Fire Smoke Impacts.
