News from March 2014
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is currently accepting applications from members of the local communities to volunteer at the Bodie Island Lighthouse and assist with tour operations during the 2014 season.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Ventura, CA - Santa Barbara Island is closed to public access due to damage from the recent storms to the pier landing ladder. The closure will be in place until a new ladder can be fabricated and installed. The closure is expected to last over a month.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that six individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: ASHFORD, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that just over one million visitors to Mount Rainier National Park in 2012 spent $36.8M in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported over 430 jobs in the local area, not including the 100-110 permanent and 180-200 seasonal staff working directly for the park and another 450-500 commercial concessions service employees in or near the park.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: COCHISE COUNTY, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 146,704 visitors to the three parks in Cochise County spent $8,001,500 in communities near the parks in 2012. That spending supported 107 jobs in the local area. The NPS sites in Cochise County are managed as the "Southeast Arizona Group" and include Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: COCHISE COUNTY, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 146,704 visitors to the three parks in Cochise County spent $8,001,500 in communities near the parks in 2012. That spending supported 107 jobs in the local area. The NPS sites in Cochise County are managed as the “Southeast Arizona Group" and include Chiricahua National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, and Fort Bowie National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Joshua Almeida, 33, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction on one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Almeida pleaded guilty Monday, Dec. 2, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 122,883 visitors to Andersonville National Historic Site in 2012 spent $6.6 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 99 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Jason Anthony Carter, 35, of Bristol, Va., was sentenced on Mar. 3, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 97 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of equipment...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Nearly a month after the first prisoners arrived, the north wall of the stockade was finally completed, providing Confederate officers a sense of security as the number of prisoners continued to increase. Over 7,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned here by April first; at the end...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials were joined by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Senator Lamar Alexander on Monday, March 3, to celebrate the contributions that public-private partnerships have made to the national park to help honor and preserve America’s cultural heritage. Secretary...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juan Carlos Hernandez, 44, of El Paso, Texas, made his initial appearance in Las Cruces federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with online enticement of a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and interstate travel to meet a minor with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity. Hernandez remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and detention hearing, which have yet to be scheduled.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- A new National Park Service report shows that 3,615,698 visitors to Independence National Historical Park, the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site and the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial in 2012 spent $195 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,736 jobs in the local area.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Tomorrow's House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing entitled "Raising the Bar: The Role of Charter Schools in K-12 Education" has been postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CLINTON IVAN RUTLEDGE, 42, of Woodward, Oklahoma, was sentenced last week to serve ten days of weekend imprisonment and three years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Rutledge was ordered to pay $21,163.63 in restitution to Farmers Insurance Group and serve 104 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced Leonel Martinez Caballero, 31, of Modesto, today to four years in prison, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Caballero pleaded guilty on Nov. 25, 2013 to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and traffic in counterfeit labels and counterfeit documentation and packaging.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2014
News Release: Good afternoon. Dr. Moniz, it is good to see you again and welcome to your first appearance before the Subcommittee.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, in advance of Thursday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the situation in Ukraine, Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - In honor of Women's History Month in March, WXXI's Homework Hotline hit the road and headed to Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY to film a segment for their "Getting Historical" series celebrating women's history. The PBS affiliate's program, Homework Hotline, is a live call-in show where kids get help with their homework problems right on the air.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The parent company of Hospice Compassus, which previously operated in Alabama, has agreed to pay the United States $3.92 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims to the government for patients treated at its hospice facilities, announced Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson.
