News from March 2014
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Niki Stephanie Nicholas is happy to announce that Big South Fork National River and Recreation will be staffing information centers on holidays and weekends in Rugby, Tennessee, and Stearns, Kentucky, from Memorial Day until Labor Day to meet visitor needs for information and orientation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Fire Island, New York -Together with the National Park Service (NPS), researchers from the State University of New York School of Environmental Science and Forestry have begun a White-tailed Deer Movement Study on Fire Island. In phases over the course of three years, researchers will fit 75 female deer with small GPS-enabled radio-collars to track how the animals move about the island.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Erika Susan Perdue, 43, of University Park, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 168 months (14 years) in federal prison and an eight-year term of supervised release following her guilty plea in September 2013 to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for the Hass Avocado Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Sex Trafficking of a Child, Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Trafficking of a Child, and two counts of Sex Trafficking by Means of Force, Fraud, or Coercion was sentenced on March 17, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 17, 2014, Earl Russell St. Claire Jr., 24, Fargo, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 25 years in prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of a controlled substance and also for attempting to escape from custody on June 15. 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Clinton Skippings, 57, of Hobbs, N.M., pleaded guilty today in Las Cruces federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, 5th Judicial District Attorney Janetta B. Hicks, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Commander Mike Wilson of the Lea County Drug Task Force (LCDTF).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Bourbonnais tax preparer, Robert J. DeAngelo, 62, of St. Pauls Drive, is scheduled to make his initial court appearance on Apr. 2, 2014, before U.S. Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal in Urbana. A grand jury indicted DeAngelo last week on three counts of filing a false income tax return and 14 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Four baggage handlers at San Diego International Airport were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges that they conspired to smuggle cocaine and methamphetamine onto aircraft by exploiting their ability to pass unchecked through security screening areas. It’s believed to be the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.,On Saturday, March 15 at approximately 8:00 a.m. the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a man who had fallen off the rim near El Tovar Lodge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Colorado man pleaded guilty today to a bank robbery in Lawrence, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management Colorado will offer 23 parcels totaling 18,836 acres during the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for 9 a.m., June 12, 2014, at the Colorado State Office in Lakewood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A former bank Savings Officer at Osage Federal Bank, now known as American Heritage Bank, was sentenced today to one (1) year and one (1) day in federal prison for stealing $147,466.30 from elderly customers’ bank accounts, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on today’s referendum in Crimea...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Following the issuance by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Inspector General of a report finding that the DOJ has not prioritized the investigation of mortgage fraud and has reported unreliable and inflated statistics regarding the scope of its prosecutorial efforts, Rep. Elijah E.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY -Many believe Women's Rights National Historical Park solely commemorates the first women's rights convention held in 1848. But part of the mission of the National Park Service is to educate people about their history and common heritage. Though the 19th-century struggle to gain voting...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Fly Girls Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA. Visit Springfield Armory NHS and be video recorded reciting or reading the Gettysburg Address.Join Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush and thousands of others in celebrating the anniversary of this powerful speech by President Lincoln. Enjoy Museum tours focused on the Civil War, followed by blank firing demonstrations of Civil War rifles by the Peter Brace Brigade, 54th MA Regiment of African American Living Historians.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2014
News Release: Scheme Caused Losses Of $26 Million Dollars To Signature Bank And Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Investors.
