News from April 2015
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, along with Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, today led 159 of their Senate and House colleagues in urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to increase access to the energy resources on our nation’s outer continental shelf (OCS).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: PETRIFIED FOREST, ARIZONA-A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 836,800 visitors to Petrified Forest National Park in 2014 spent $51,696,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 719 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $56,833,000. These figures are up significantly from 2013 during which 644,800 visitors spent $39,137,000 in the local economy and supported 480 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerry Gifford, 43, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution, Gilmer was convicted and sentenced today for unlawful possession of Buprenorphine, a narcotic medication, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Hatch, for holding today’s hearing. I also want to thank our nominees for joining us.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging THOMAS BIERD, 35, from Shawnee, Oklahoma, with embezzlement from the Citizen Pottawatomie Nation, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General Management Advisory titled, “Alarm System Maintenance at Residences Protected by the U.S. Secret Service."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CLINTON JAMES JONES, age 34, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Senior District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch on Wednesday sentenced Kirk T. Jordan, 39, to 30 months in prison for his conviction for felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent-in-Charge Hugo J. Barrera, and Virgin Islands Police Commissioner Delroy Richards.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Rome, NY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 60,819 visitors to Fort Stanwix National Monument in 2014 spent $3,206,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 43 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $3,910,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay $118,470.76 in Restitution to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Ashley Bonair Chambers, age 58, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced after having been convicted after a four-day jury trial in December 2014 of one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) joined a call of advocates from across the country to brief them on next steps for the Healthy Families Act, legislation that would expand access to paid sick days to millions...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: The White House launched the Climate Action Champions program in late 2014, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). After a competitive application process, DOE designated 16 communities as Climate Action Champions, including two Tribes: the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Michigan) and the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe (California). These Tribes were selected for their local leadership in climate mitigation and adaptation.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Firefighters are lighting a controlled burn next to Lake Roosevelt's Haag Cove near Kettle Falls this morning.About 20 National Park Service firefighters--with help from other federal firefighters-are introducing fire into about 30 acres of timbered parkland, so that flames will consume grass, brush, pine needle litter, and down timber.
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.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Manteo, North Carolina -A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2014 shows that over 2.8 million visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial spent more than $170 million in communities in and around the parks.This spending supported approximately 2,683 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of more than $212 million dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan today ruled that the substitute to the TPA bill offered by Ranking Member Levin could not be voted on in Ways and Means on the grounds that the Rules Committee has jurisdiction over the fast-track process and is outside of the Ways and Means Committee...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,693,005 visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in 2014 spent $136,838,700 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,672 jobs on island, and had a cumulative benefit to the local community of $170,878,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, PA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 1.9 million visitors to Valley Forge National Historical Park and 48,105 visitors to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in 2014 spent $24.2 million and $2.7 million respectively, in communities near the parks. That spending...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Keonna Thomas, a/k/a “Fatayat Al Khilafah," a/k/a “YoungLioness," 30, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with knowingly and intentionally attempting to provide material support and resources, including herself as personnel, to a foreign terrorist organization, to wit: the...
