News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: A commercial tour bus carrying 26 passengers and a driver crashed approximately four miles north of Colter Bay Village in Grand Teton National Park on Thursday, July 10, at approximately 4:10 p.m. Twenty-four people were transported by three Grand Teton ambulances, a Jackson Hole Fire/EMS ambulance and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2014 - Today, 29 Members of Congress sent a underscoring support for House-passed active forest management legislation, H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act. In the letter, the Members stress the need for Senate action to keep all of our Nation’s forests healthy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Javier Guerrero Molina (33, citizen of Mexico) has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with transporting and attempting to transport a minor child from Las Vegas to Jacksonville with intent that the child...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Fred Buenrostro pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit corruption and fraud charges stemming from a conspiracy to trade official acts for cash and benefits, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Inspector in Charge Rafael E. Nunez, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Andrew Adelmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used his Computer and the Internet to Download and Save Approximately 600 Child Pornography Files.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, July 11, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH LUCA, 68, of Meriden, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia,July 11, 2014- Discover what life was like in one of the New River Gorge's most renowned towns! Join National Park Service rangers and Operation Lifesaver on Saturday, July 19thfrom10:00 AM - 2:00 PMto explore the historic railroad town of Thurmond and to learn safety tips for...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork national park passport stamps designed specifically for the Historic Rugby (Tennessee) and Gateway to the Big South Fork (Crossville, Tennessee) Visitor Centers will be available starting Saturday, July 12. These two new stamps are part of a program available at nearly all of the 401 National Park Service units. These National Park Passport Stamps, which are free, are similar in nature to passport cancellation stamps stamped in a traveler's national passport.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The body of a man recovered from the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park on July 4th has been identified as that of Victor Tseng.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement following a briefing from Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer and Major General Yaacob Ayish about the current situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of the United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, in a 37 page letter to House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, detailed State Department efforts to obstruct the Congressional investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attacks.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today joined Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) to urge Labor Secretary Thomas Perez to reverse the department’s decision to unilaterally extend the Davis-Bacon Act requirements to survey technicians due to inadequate analysis and outreach to industry stakeholders.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: The BLM's news release of July 11, 2014 incorrectly listed a 45-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Paul Henry Ortega, 45, of Rio Rancho, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court this morning on an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm and driving while intoxicated. Ortega remains in federal custody pending arraignment and a detention hearing which have yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Sathish Kumar Chandhun Rajendran, 36, of Sterling, Virginia, pleaded guilty yesterday to engaging in unauthorized access to government servers that hosted a Fannie Mae website used to support federal mortgage loan modification programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, July 11, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Ramsey Z. Fakhouri, 22, of Troy, Michigan, was sentenced today in federal district...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - James Dunmore, 40, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced today to 10 years in prison on charges stemming from a series of burglaries he committed last year at George Washington University, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jordano Perdomo, 20, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2014
Release: To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the “Father of the Green Revolution," Dr. Norman Borlaug, Congressional leaders dedicated a statue of Borlaug in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol this spring. While those festivities were taking place, people worldwide were carrying on Borlaug’s legacy in different ways.
