News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River announces two programs on Saturday, December 6. First, the public is encouraged to bring any questions and join National Park Service rangers for a free cup of coffee at Lilly Bridge from 10 to 10:30 a.m. (ET). Then, beginning at Lilly Bridge at 11 a.m., NPS rangers will be leading another Climb with a Ranger program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cruz Soria, 29, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in the Fay Canyon area of the Canebrake Ecological Reserve, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WEST ROBERTSON, also known as “Po," 32, of New London, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River continues to host a preschool story time event every Friday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. (ET). Story time should last for about 30 minutes. The event takes place at the Obed visitor center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. All preschool children...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The EPA and FBI disrupted the scheme in a joint undercover operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Cricket Communications, Inc., a wireless telecommunications carrier based in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay the government $2,174,432 to resolve allegations that it overcharged federal law enforcement agencies for the costs of carrying out court-ordered wiretaps and pen registers, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge M. Elise Chawaga, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Mr. Cameron McLaughlan, 21, of Ozark, Missouri was rock-climbing with a friend in the Hemmed-in-Hollow area of Buffalo National River's Ponca Wilderness yesterday when he fell approximately 25 feet from near the top of the bluff onto a ledge. His fall at about 2:45 pm rendered him immobile and his friend...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Four men charged in July 2014 with two separate hash oil explosions pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The charges relate to explosions in Bellevue on November 5, 2013, and in Kirkland on Jan. 1, 2014. Sentencing hearings for the defendants are scheduled for March 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Defendant’s Submarine, Purchased With Fraud Proceeds, Is Restrained In Partial Satisfaction Of $2.5 Million Forfeiture.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced a Senate companion bill to the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Act of 2014, introduced by Representatives Adam Smith (D-WA), Sander Levin (D-MI), Derek Kilmer (D-WA), and Charles B. Rangel (D-MI). These bills would renew TAA, which is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2014. Reps. Smith, Levin, Rangel, and Kilmer released the following statement calling for the immediate passage of the TAA...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jayne Concialdi, 51, a former resident of Quechee who now lives in Connecticut, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 18 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge of wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: In All, 15 Local Defendants And New York Heroin Source Have Been Charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Shantelle P. Kitchen, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CID"), and James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the New York...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service Southeast Utah Group is pleased to announce a community outreach program highlighting the works and experience of Serena Supplee during her tenure as the 2104 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ismael Martinez, 26, of Reno, Nevada, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to eight years and one month in prison for traveling from Reno to Fresno with the intent of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 14-year-old, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted a new Department of Energy (DOE) report on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The report details DOE’s test sales between March and July of roughly 5 million barrels of sour crude oil from SPR storage sites in Louisiana and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: A man who re-entered the United States illegally was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2014, to 4 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to access device fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Single-walled carbon nanotubes are loaded with desirable properties. In particular, the ability to conduct electricity at high rates of speed makes them attractive for use as nanoscale transistors. But this and other properties are largely dependent on their structure, and their structure is determined when the nanotube is just beginning to form.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that President Obama recently signed three bipartisan committee bills into law, adding to the committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess.
