News from September 2014
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that the cycling and running legs of the Rev3 Triathlon will take place in the park on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. "The park provides opportunities for people to be inspired every day, but events like this demonstrate...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Sept. 10, 2014 14-072. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Commercial Stock Plan Approved. A new long...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Barry R. Grissom, United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, announced that law enforcement officers and victim service providers from throughout a multi-state region are in Kansas City, Mo., this week to attend the 11th annual Protect Our Children Conference at the Airport Hilton in Kansas City, Mo., from Sept. 10 to 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - CONCORD, N.H. - Robert Pineault, 39, of Manchester, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 60 months in prison in connection with offenses involving methamphetamine manufacture, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Wallace Adkins, 82, and his grandson, Timothy Harvey, 30, were sentenced to federal prison terms for their roles in the distribution of oxycodone in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Adkins was sentenced to one year and one day...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men were convicted by a trial jury today of their roles in a multi-million dollar drug-trafficking conspiracy and an unsuccessful murder-for-hire conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Approximately 1,000 law enforcement officials, including the DEA Los Angeles’s Field Division’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking (HIDTA) Southern California Drug Task Force, fanned out across the Fashion District in downtown Los Angeles and executed dozens of search and arrest warrants linked...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2014-Four scientists have been named to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame for discoveries in soybean genomics, sustainable farming, poultry disease control and crop micronutrients. ARS is the chief intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on September 8, 2014, by Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor urging immediate action to address corporate inversions. The statement was made in support of defeating the previous question on the rule to consider H.R. 3522. Defeating the previous question could lead to consideration of the Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: PIKEVILLE, KY - A federal Judge has sentenced a former Pikeville pharmacy manager to 72 months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to illegally dispense thousands of prescription pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on September 8, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tara C. Neda and Timothy S. Vasquez and Director of Administration Ruth M. Cox of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Mexico were among the 244 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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that Ray Allen Flener, 26, of Sesser, Illinois, was sentenced on Sept. 10...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Yessyka Santana, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Department of Education Office of Inspector General, Southeastern Regional Office, and Craig Caldwell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service, Birmingham Field Office, announced that.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced two bills that seek to fulfill the promise of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) that ensures access to a free, high-quality public education...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to President Obama’s address to the nation regarding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Cromwell, Conn. man pleaded guilty yesterday to child exploitation charges in federal court in Bridgeport.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service (NPS) and White House Historical Association (the Association) today hosted First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell as they announced the re-opening of the White House Visitor Center after two years of transformative renovations.
