News from August 2014
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation regarding fossil insects in the Kishenehn Formation on Tuesday, August 5th from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. This lecture takes place at the park’s community building in West Glacier. Dr. Dale...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: The closures of Precipice, Valley Cove, and Jordan cliffs and adjacent areas and trails (i.e., Precipice, East Face, Jordan, and North Section of Flying Mountain Trails) will open on Friday Aug. 1, 2014 in Acadia National Park was announced today by Superintendent Sheridan Steele today. Adult peregrine...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Due to extreme conditions, all fires at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area are prohibited effective Aug. 1, 2014, until further notice.No open flames are permitted.This includes but is not limited to charcoal fires, tiki torches, incense burners, etc.Exceptions include: 1) self-contained propane or gas stoves or lanterns;and 2) portable propane campfire units that are Underwriters Lab (UL) approved and located 10 feet from vegetation and logs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Gregory Bernard Griffin, Jr., 23, of Jackson was sentenced to 10 years and 7 months in federal prison as a result of his convictions for bank fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: International Falls, MN:Two of the park's 276 developed visitor use camping and houseboat sites that were affected by temporary closures in May to protect bald eagle nesting pairs are now reopened for public use.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Three public health bills championed by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health are now on their way to the president’s desk to become law. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented, “The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, under the leadership of Chairman Pitts, has...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marcellus Williams, aka “Math," “P-Shooter" and “Manny," 27, of Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to serve 30 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for engaging in numerous gang-related crimes as a ranking member of the Black P-Stones, including shootings of rival gang members, robberies and drug dealing.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding Hamas’s breach of a negotiated humanitarian ceasefire and the abduction of Israeli soldier 2nd Lt. Hadar Goldin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. B A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to rob a drug stash house in order to sell the stolen cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Brandon Farmer, 21, of Philadelphia, Miss., was sentenced on July 31, 2014 by Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to 108 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for sexual contact with a minor under the age of twelve, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Farmer must also register as a sex offender. Farmer previously pled guilty to the crime which occurred on the tribal lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park has scheduled a nighttime closure of the Nisqually Road between the Nisqually Entrance and Longmire. On Monday and Tuesday nights, August 4-5, and if necessary Wednesday August 6, no traffic will enter or exit the park via the Nisqually Road between 9:30 pm and 4:30 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that YIPING QU, 30, a Chinese national who was living in New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to a 36-month term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal law enforcement officer was indicted on witness tampering charges for allegedly attempting to thwart an investigation of a sham marriage that she arranged a decade earlier. The defendant, ENKHCHIMEG ULZIIBAYAR EDWARDS, was charged with two counts of witness tampering in a federal grand jury indictment that was returned yesterday and announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Announces Commemorative Program as the Nation Observes the Second Anniversary of the Hate Crimes Violence at the Sikh Gurdwara in Oak Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Defendants Are Accused Of Distributing Heroin, Crack Cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, Louis Grasso and Richard Riccardi were sentenced before Judge John Gleeson in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to 38 and 36 years in prison, respectively, for the robbery and murder of James Donovan on July 2, 2010. The defendants were convicted after trial in March 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Three public health bills championed by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health are now on their way to the president’s desk to become law. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented, “The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, under the leadership of Chairman Pitts, has...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information was filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg yesterday charging Robert M. Fowler, 60, of York Springs, Pennsylvania, with workers' compensation fraud involving $24,934.68 of benefits he was not...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) Superintendent Dusty Shultz announced today that the National Park Service (NPS) proposes to develop a hiking and paddling trail that follows the Lake Michigan shoreline in the park from Platte Bay to Good Harbor Bay. To do so, the National Lakeshore will prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA), which will describe and analyze alternatives for this trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Robert Bellender, age 39, of Aurora, Colorado, pled guilty earlier this week before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and money laundering, federal authorities announced. Judge Arguello is scheduled to sentence Bellender on October...
