News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Washington, New Jersey, man is charged with stalking a female minor and soliciting another to produce images of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Wednesday, Sept. 10, MARQUIS MITCHELL, 23, of New Haven, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico -Carlsbad Caverns National Park is closing early today due to potential flash flooding as a result of continuous rainfall. The main gate.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Jasper County woman was sentenced on Sept. 11, 2014, to over fifteen years in federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park invites everyone to volunteer and help protect the park’s native ecology on National Public Lands Day, Sat., Sept. 27. Everyone gets in for free, and volunteers at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will receive a free pass to use on another day of their choosing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local Union 906 pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $51,000 from union members in Topeka and Waco, Texas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell seeking more information regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and preparedness and response efforts at home and abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Gregory Lynn Shrader, 55, of Jay, Okla., was found guilty of willfully making a threat to kill by means of an explosive, transport of explosive material with the intent to intimidate, mailing injurious articles, and possession of explosive material by a prohibited possessor by a federal jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Tainan, Taiwan, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to commit crimes against the United States, money laundering, and wire and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Frederick Stokes, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possessing ammunition while being a convicted felon, was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WHAT: The St. Louis Symphony Landmarks Series takes over the Old Courthouse Rotunda on Friday, Sept. 19, for a free chamber concert. The noontime performance features Dvorak’s String Quintet in E-flat major, Viola Quintet, which he composed during the summer he spent in Spillville, Iowa, in 1893. The quintet is composed of violinists Xiaoxiao Qiang and Ann Fink, violists Kathleen Mattis and Christian Woehr and cellist Alvin McCall.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Sept. 15, 2014. The committee will review legislation to recruit minorities for energy jobs, oversee FCC budget and management, examine the effects of cross-border data flows, explore effective suicide prevention efforts, and continue the 21st Century Cures initiative with a discussion on the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mike Hurst, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Mississippi, was recently recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony held this week in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, Montana, on Sept. 11, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, SAMANTHA RENEE HEADCARRIER, 24, of Browning, was sentenced to a term of 120 months in prison, three years supervised release, and a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five people from the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office were among the 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, announced that the Subcommittee will convene a hearing to discuss Mexico’s continued detention of Marine Sergeant Andrew...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A 25-year-old Abilene, Texas, resident, Johnny Ray Martinez, was sentenced on Wednesday, by U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis, to 15 years in federal prison on a child pornography production offense, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The Nevada Department of Transportation reopened a northbound and southbound lane of Interstate 15 Sept. 12;therefore, Lake Mead National Recreation Area entrance fees will resume Sept. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Frederick Stokes, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possessing ammunition while being a convicted felon, was sentenced to 63 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Sept. 15, 2014. The committee will review legislation to recruit minorities for energy jobs, oversee FCC budget and management, examine the effects of cross-border data flows, explore effective suicide prevention efforts, and continue the 21st Century Cures initiative with a discussion on the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
