News from February 2015
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH - Superintendent Melissa Memory announces that the National Park Service will host a special two-day Civil War living history event on Saturday, February 28 & Sunday, March 1, 2015, at Fort Pulaski National Monument. Civil War re-enactors and living historians from around the southeast will be on hand, portraying Confederate prisoners and Union prison guards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ras Foster, 25, of Brooklyn, New York has been sentenced on his conviction for distributing heroin in the Fair Haven, Vermont area. Foster previously pled guilty to this offense which involved selling heroin and crack cocaine in Fair Haven in March and April of 2014. One of the two charged sales took place in the parking lot of the Stewart’s convenience store.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Reaz Qadir Khan, 51, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Portland, pleaded guilty to the crime of accessory after the fact for the assistance he provided to individuals connected to the May 27, 2009, suicide bomb attack at the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in Lahore, Pakistan, that killed approximately 30 individuals and injured 300 more.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Luke Lubrin, 46, of St. Croix, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to one count of manufacture of marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the situation in Yemen...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: A former employee was was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for a 16-year scheme to defraud J.M. Smucker Company, of Orville, Ohio, of more than $4.1 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jose Luis Martinez, age 37, of Rogers, was sentenced today to 70 months imprisonment and three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Sexual Abuse as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on Feb. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced two brothers, Nelson Cartagena (41, Rockledge) and Dairo Cartagena (38, Rockledge), for their roles in a conspiracy to smuggle firearms to Colombia, and for unlawfully dealing in firearms. Nelson Cartagena was sentenced to 15 years...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Who was the REAL George Washington? Did he really chop down a cherry tree and just when is his birthday? Join the Backyard Ranger on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 10 to 11:30 am and 1:30 to 3 pm, and meet the man behind the myth that we know today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Last year, as we remember so well, Republicans reacted to the tax reform proposal from then-Chairman Dave Camp with a “blah, blah, blah, blah.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. A Jefferson County man was sentenced today to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: March 7 - June 17, 2015 in the Museum Building at 900 Beach Street and Aquatic Park. Free.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Public comment period open through March 26, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - In Austin last night, a jury convicted 44-year-old Bertram, TX, resident Jimmy Don Hardin of federal firearms and drug trafficking charges announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi; Donald Alway Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Derrick L. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: At a ceremony earlier this week in Washington, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder awarded the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor to several individuals, including fallen Senior Special Agent John Francis Capano, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and former Chief John Curly, Bellmore Fire Department, who exhibited exceptional courage in saving and protecting others and whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are setting traps to find out which ones are more effective at capturing and killing stable flies that annoy zoo animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Washington man charged with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance pled guilty to and was sentenced on February 9, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
