News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: A dead grizzly bear was discovered along the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park on Thursday morning. At approximately 10 a.m. on May 22, a member of the park road crew was traveling down the Going-to-the-Sun Road when he came upon a dead grizzly bear located on the road about one mile above The Loop.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Devils Garden Loop Road and Trailhead Temporarily Closed for Construction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for three counts of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with a recent renewed investigation of a bombing attack on the Trans Alaska...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s record of bipartisan success, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved two bills, H.R. 316 and H.R. 724, as part of the committee’s effort to advance an “all-of-the-above" energy approach and effort to modernize government and clear burdensome red tape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Person Incapable of Consent.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Warren, Ill. man was sentenced today in federal court for armed bank robbery. The defendant, Derrick W. Holmes, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 76 months in federal prison for the robbery of Kent Bank, 996 West Fairview Road, Freeport, Ill., on Sept. 26, 2013. The court also ordered Holmes to pay restitution of $6,338 to Kent Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 23, 2014, Dustin Morgan, 36, of Maryville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 204 months in federal prison by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The sentence was the result of a conviction at trial in October 2013 on an...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, will hold a briefing next week to highlight the committee’s recent report on its investigation of federal programs addressing severe mental illness. The report follows a more than yearlong...

By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Frederick Hill, a spokesman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Chairman Darrell Issa, today released the following statement in response to a communication from the State Department that Secretary John Kerry will testify before the Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jason Edward Hallam, 33, of West Hamlin, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea today to the distribution of oxycodone.

By State Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...

By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Stanley W. Anderson, age 70, of Arvada, Colorado was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Following his prison sentence, Anderson, was ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release. Judge Arguello also ordered him to pay $5,226,300 in restitution.

By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, will hold a briefing next week to highlight the committee’s recent report on its investigation of federal programs addressing severe mental illness. The report follows a more than yearlong...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rathanak Van, 28, of Stockton, was sentenced on Thursday by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years and three months in prison for conspiring to commit a robbery and conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, man convicted of Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization was sentenced on May 19, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.

By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: The official launch of the Arches National Park quarter will be Friday, June 6, 2014. The ceremony will take place at the Arches National Park Visitor Center at 9:00 a.m.

By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Growing concern among farmers, ranchers, rural communities and agriculture interests has led U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee to seek answers on a wide assortment of environmental regulations planned by the Obama administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, May 23, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a federal grand jury returned ten one-count Indictments for conspiracy to commit...

By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- A 45-year old Braham man was indicted yesterday for mailing threatening letters. Johnnie Earl Long was charged with one count of False Information and Hoaxes and six counts of Mailing Threatening Communications.