News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is soliciting bids for hay harvesting permits for three historic fields located on the Chickamauga Battlefield. The Park has three parcels: North Dyer, South Dyer; and West Dyer Fields; consisting of approximately 149 acres of hay fields that are open...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lancelot Lapahie, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a statutory rape charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following speech on Iran on the U.S. Senate Floor.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: TEMPORARY CLOSURE FEB 10 TO JUNE 30 AT WETLANDS TRAIL TRAILHEAD.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today led the committee’s unanimous approval of Dr. Karen Dynan’s nomination to be assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:Denali National Park and Preserve and the Denali Borough communities invite all who love winter to come celebrate Alaska's longest season at Winterfest 2014, taking place Friday, February 21 - Sunday, February 23. This long-running community-wide event features an array of activities, with something for all ages, interests, and abilities! The schedule is posted at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that Tony Scott Key, aged 45, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 22, 2014, to serve nearly 26 years (309 months) in Federal prison for two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New York business must pay up to $1 million in fines, forfeiture and restitution after pleading guilty in federal court today to its role in a conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will conduct a field hearing in Charleston, WV on Monday to examine the circumstances behind, and the response to, the accidental release of chemicals into the Elk River by Freedom...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: “There truly is nothing more important than what we as a society do to support our youngest children, and I look forward to a robust discussion on that topic today. I would also like to say, at the outset, that I do not believe there is disagreement about ensuring that children who benefit from federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2014 - Today, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 2954, The Public Access and Lands Improvement Act with a vote of 220-194. This bipartisan package of bills would protect and promote access to lands; improve opportunities by removing red tape that stands in the way...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Scanlon, 31, of Pasadena, Md., pled guilty today to charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has made appointments to fill four vacancies on the 15-member Bureau of Land Management Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land management issues.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today pressed Obama administration officials to more actively manage the nation’s public forests to ensure both healthy ecosystems and economies in rural communities surrounded by national forest lands.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after Senate Republicans blocked a restoration of federal unemployment insurance (UI) from moving forward. The proposal, which was fully paid-for, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that a Connecticut man was convicted in federal court in Anchorage on Thursday, February 6, 2014, for one count of Advertising Child Pornography and two counts of Distributing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota, sitting in St. Paul, recently returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation, and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. Any sentence is determined by a federal district judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Dear Administrator Tavenner: We are writing to request information about how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to reconcile the mistakes that have been generated in the healthcare.gov application process. As Americans continue to endure the badly botched rollout of a website that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Pilot Project Allows Tribal Prosecution of Non-Indian Abusers For the First Time in More Than Three Decades.
