News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lucas Segura, 22, of Los Lunas, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., this morning on an indictment charging him with a heroin trafficking offense. Segura remains custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for July 18, 2014.
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Dear Comptroller General Dodaro: The dramatic increase in the number of unaccompanied children migrating to the United States from Central America has created a humanitarian crisis at our southern border. In FY 2009, there were 19,668 apprehensions of unaccompanied minors in the United States. 82 percent...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement following the confirmation of David Mader to be Controller of the Office of Federal Financial Management in the Office of Management and Budget. The Senate confirmed Mr. Mader by voice vote...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: Thank you for your letter of July 15, 2014 expressing the Obama Administration’s concerns about corporate inversions. I appreciate your candor on this issue. You should know that I share your concern about corporate inversions and agree that the best way to address this issue is...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today a gift made history and saved history. National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and National Park Foundation (NPF) President and CEO Neil Mulholland joined businessman and philanthropist David M. Rubenstein to announce Rubenstein’s $12.35 million donation, a lead gift...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Today in federal court, a 27-year-old Mounds View man pleaded guilty to one count of Distribution of Heroin. Andrew Terrell Davis, Jr., who was indicted on May 12, 2014, entered his guilty plea this morning in Minneapolis before United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis.
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 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 hearing titled “Dangerous Passage: Central America in Crisis and the Exodus of Unaccompanied Minors."
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Join Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park Ranger Jim Dal Sasso for a special program at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, Michigan on Thursday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m. Ranger Jim will share stories and photographs from his long and varied career with the National Park Service. He has served...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Federal subsistence registration permits for permit hunts in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve will be available starting Monday, July 28, at the park’s Visitor Center in Copper Center and the Slana Ranger Station. The Visitor Center is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced today that RAFAEL DOBARD, age 39, and QUINCY JONES, age 33, both former New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD") narcotics detectives, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown. DOBARD and JONES were each sentenced to eighteen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -A Sulphur man was sentenced to 180 months in prison and five years of supervised released for possessing multiple firearms illegally, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER - As part of a collaborative effort to protect wildlife and promote balanced development on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input to identify conservation measures to protect Gunnison Sage-Grouse within the bird’s habitat on federally-managed lands in Colorado and Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Travis Birdsong, 35, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie J. Foschio, to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40, a $5,000,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Beckley man pled guilty to a drug charge in federal court in Beckley. Jason Kaylor, age 31, pled guilty to distribution of heroin. Kaylor admitted that in October of 2013, he distributed a quantity of heroin to a person cooperating...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Hogsett continues aggressive fight against illegal firearm possession to protect Hoosiers.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: As part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department today announced up to $31 million to establish the initial phases of the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), a field laboratory dedicated to cutting-edge research on enhanced geothermal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Sebastian Restum, a Detroit Area businessman, was sentenced to 51 months in prison today and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,992,082 by federal judge Marianne Battani for the role he played in a conspiracy to commit mortgage fraud, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: A recent resident of Jackson, Wyoming died in a single vehicle rollover Wednesday, July 16, in Grand Teton National Park. Bernardo Bravo, 45, formerly of the Phoenix, Arizona area,apparently drove off the Teton Park Road and rolled his 2002 Buick sedan down a steep embankment just a mile north of the park's Moose Entrance Station sometime in the early morning hours.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Washington - American Food Distributors Inc., operating in Denver, Colo., has posted a $260,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: What: “Customs Service and the Golden Gate," a new exhibit of artifacts, photographs, and video, on the history of the U.S. Customs Service and its national and global influence.
