News from January 2015
By State Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the devastating Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is seeking volunteer musical acts interested in performing at the annual Big South Fork Spring Planting and Music Festival event scheduled for Saturday, April 25, 2015. The park is currently soliciting musical groups of the traditional Cumberland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wayne.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Ranger Tommy Barnes from the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area was part of a group of 12 individuals that represented seven state and federal agencies that won the 2014 National Forest Service Region 8 Regional Forester's Honor Award for "Leading in the Business Environment.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NOAH L. MYERS, 43, of Lyme, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Dwight Williams, 51, of Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 262 months in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that led to the death of a young woman.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and incoming Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following response to the president’s announcement on data security at the Federal Trade Commission...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and incoming Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following response to the president’s announcement on data security at the Federal Trade Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Steel A. Davis, 42, of Paradise, was arraigned today in federal court, charged with wire fraud in a scheme to obtain bonuses for purportedly referring individuals to enlist in the California National Guard, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Davis pleaded not guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George Jerrod Hazel sentenced Charles Johnson, age 20, of Beltsville, Maryland, and Madani Ilara Tejan, age 32, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to 51 months in prison and 68 months in prison, respectively, each followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing a convenience store in Waldorf, Maryland,.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announces that a Notice of Intent (NOI) has been published in the Federal Register on Dec. 29, 2014 announcing that pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the NPS is preparing a draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Thomas Edward Hill, 40, of Huntington, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Brian Murphy, 43, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced on January 8, 2015, to serve 45 months in prison by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge. Murphy was also ordered to pay $18 million in restitution to the victims in the case.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation about the recent World Parks Congress on Wednesday, January 21 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the park’s community building in West Glacier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Keival Lewis Kelley, also known as “Swell," 31, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and 24 months for a supervised release revocation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for armed robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Glacier National Park recently received a generous donation of 21 historic paintings from Glacier Park, Inc. The paintings, originally created for the hotels, motels and lodges in the park, include pieces by John Fery, Frank Stick, R.H. Palenske, Charles Defeo and Richmond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Benjamin K. Bray, age 30, of Davidsonville, Maryland, to eight years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and oxycodone and to being a felon in possession of an explosive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: PRESS ALERT: Gregory Owens, 58, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was arrested yesterday on charges filed in U.S. District Court of interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in connection with a home invasion shooting on Dec. 18, 2014, at a residence in Saco, Maine. Owens will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland today at 11:00 a.m.
