News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26th, visitors are invited to witness the power of field artillery that defended the Union garrison during the Siege of 1862. Living History staff and volunteers will present artillery demonstrations at 1, 2, and 3 p.m., on the battle which led to General Stonewall Jackson’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Four Richmond County people were sentenced on April 22, 2015 according to Ripley Rand, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 6,261 jobs in local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Jaime Tovar-Montoya, a/k/a Jimmy Diaz Tovar (57, Colombia, South America), guilty of making false claims of U.S. citizenship and aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 21, 2015. Tovar-Montoya was indicted on April 15, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The National Park Service issued a permit to Scuba Training and Technology, April 15, authorizing the company to provide dive tours of B-29 Superfortress Bomber that is submerged within Lake Mead.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) tonight praised Committee action on a series of trade bills, including S.995, bipartisan legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Blue Ridge Parkway and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Announce $700,000 Centennial Challenge Funding.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, WV-A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,280,604 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area in 2014 spent $53,448,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 808 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $60,572,100.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held an oversight hearing on the devastating impacts of wildfire and the need to significantly increase forest management efforts on the National Forest System.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Tucson, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 673,752 visitors to Saguaro National Park in 2014, spent nearly $41.6 million in communities near the Park. That spending supported 610 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of more than $58 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: 2015 is the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to the goals of the ADA and its enforcement. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is urging everyone to be especially mindful of children protected...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department announced winners of its second annual Race to Zero Student Design Competition, a collegiate competition engaging university students to design zero energy-ready homes. A zero energy-ready home is a high-performance home that is so energy efficient it can offset all or most of its annual energy consumption with renewable energy. This significantly reduces a home's annual electricity costs while improving comfort, health, safety, and durability.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Rachel J. Knasinski, 33, of West Salem, Illinois, pleaded guilty to bank embezzlement charges brought in an Information filed in United States District Court in Benton, Illinois, on April 22, 2015, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 2.3 million visitors to Glacier National Park in 2014 spent $193 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 3,405 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced that THOMAS HOEY, JR., who led a large-scale cocaine distribution conspiracy for over five years...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Our goal - for the American people and U.S. businesses - is a TPP trade agreement that contributes to economic growth, sets high standards, and is sensitive to the needs of the developing and developed countries involved in the negotiations.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement on President Obama’s announcement that a U.S. counterterrorism operation resulted in the deaths of two hostages...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC-A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 430,928 visitors to Cape Lookout National Seashore in 2014 spent $20,901,800 in communities near the park. That spending supported 332 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $23,366,800.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that JOHNNY J.S. QUENGA, age 38, of Agat, was sentenced today to 12 months imprisonment, two years supervised release and 200 hours community service before Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, in the District Court of Guam.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Today in Midland, U.S. District Judge Robert A. Junell sentenced 29-year-old Matthew Lee Weidner to 121 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possessing child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
