News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Wildland fire managers declared the lightning-ignited Noatak River fire out July 23, 2014. The fire was located north of the Noatak River and east of Narvakrak Lake. At approximately 700 acres, rain extinguished the fire.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: This morning, Rocky Mountain National Park rangers were notified by a family member that Jay Yambert, 56, of Champaign, Illinois, was overdue. Yambert had planned to summit Longs Peak on the east side, via The Loft on Sunday, July 27. At 4:30 p.m. yesterday he was in touch with family and indicated that he would be late getting back to the trailhead. They contacted the park this morning when they had not heard from him.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced today two new programs to assist the sheep industry with the production and marketing of their products in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - TINA KUEHL was sentenced to 51 months in prison on multiple healthcare fraud charges and separate unrelated bank fraud charges and ordered to pay $200,000 restitution. Her company, Better Way Home Care, was sentenced to three years of probation and also ordered to pay $200,000 restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Luis Garcia Villa (Garcia), 22, of Michoacàn, Mexico, has been sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for his involvement in a toxic marijuana cultivation operation in the Sequoia National Forest, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. Garcia was also ordered to pay $3,328 in restitution to the U.S. Forest Service for damage sustained to public land and natural resources as a result of the cultivation operation.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today hailed passage in the U.S. House of Representatives of legislation that would level sanctions on the North Korean regime and its supporters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JEFFREY LAVELLE, owner and operator of J. L. Manufacturing pled guilty to multiple counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with a bribery/kickback scheme involving Boeing military aircraft parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Connie Lynn Whitley, 51, of Proctorville, Ohio, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington, West Virginia. Whitley worked for Uptowner Inns as the manager for their United States Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 28, 2014, Christopher McMillan, 29, New Town, N.D., was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve two years and six months in prison on the charge of assault of a dating partner resulting in substantial bodily injury. McMillan pleaded guilty to the charge on April 21, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Each spring and summer female sea turtles--loggerhead, green, and occasional leatherback--make a brief trip to the shores of Cape Hatteras National Seashore to nest. Approximately two months later, under the cover of darkness, up to 150 hatchlings emerge from each deep sandy nest in a mad dash across the beach to reach the safety of the Atlantic Ocean.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Robert Stevenson, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore sentenced Vinston Boxton-Moises (49, San Andres Island, Colombia, South America) to 18 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, knowing and intending that the cocaine would be unlawfully...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2014
News Release: Trail Exploring: Trees, the Largest Plants in Nature.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2014
News Release: WILLIAMS, Ariz. - Growth continued yesterday on all fires being managed for resource benefits with multiple objectives. Today crews continue to do preparation work ahead of managed ignitions and ignitions may occur on some fires. Fire managers continue to coordinate with neighboring forests, national...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 26, 2014
News Release: DOT 70-14 WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and other U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) officials today celebrated the opening of the first phase of the Silver Line—the largest expansion of Metrorail service in 20 years—connecting the nation’s capital to Tysons Corner and ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2014
News Release: Hagatna, Guam - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 266,268 visitors to War in the Pacific National Historical Park (NHP) in 2013 spent nearly $14.7 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 174 jobs in the local area.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2014
News Release: A hiker deployed bear spray and then discharged a hand gun on a bear Saturday morning in Glacier National Park, while another incident required an emergency rescue of an injured hiker.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2014
News Release: Dinosaur, CO and Jensen, UT- Fire crews at Dinosaur National Monument continue to respond to three fires reported yesterday. Quick response from multiple agencies and last night's high humidity have helped with suppression efforts.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2014
News Release: BERLIN, MARYLAND - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2,056,827 visitors to Assateague Island National Seashore in 2013 spent $84,350,400 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,052 jobs in the local area.
