News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze today announced the selection of long-time public lands manager Kristin Bail to head the BLM's 15-year old National Conservation Lands program in the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Bail is currently the Forest Supervisor for the National Forests...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today reported out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee legislation honoring former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond. The bill now goes to the Senate floor for consideration by the full Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted an Ohio man for illegally receiving about 1,340 M228 grenade fuzes in Blount County last year, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Several dead prairie dogs and other rodents recently found in Devils Tower National Monument have tested positive for tularemia. This year, tularemia has been widely reported in Wyoming and some neighboring states.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with the Western Area Power Administration, will present the next Tribal Renewable Energy Series webinar, Best Practices in Procurement, on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announces the arrests of three men believed to be responsible for the Oct. 17, 2014, robbery of the Kearney Eaton Employees Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Salina man was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Salem, MA -The 104' gaffe-rigged schooner "Lady Maryland" arrived at Salem Maritime National Historic Site earlier today for an impromptu overnight visit on Central Wharf.The Baltimore-based schooner is the flagship of the Living Classrooms Foundation, a floating classroom providing thousands of students...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Vice-Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced the introduction of landmark legislation to appropriate more than $1.2 billion in emergency funding to address critical challenges facing our nation’s inner-city neighborhoods.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Chairman Rouzer and Ranking Member Costa for holding today’s hearing. Avian influenza has impacted poultry growers in my district perhaps harder than anywhere else in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Rory Slade Jenkins, age 55, of Hagerstown, Maryland today to 51 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Jenkins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) urged support for the multi-year highway bill to fund our nation’s bridges, highways and roads for three years without raising taxes or adding to the deficit. The bipartisan solution reauthorizes America’s highway programs for six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - This week, federal, state and local authorities arrested 23 individuals indicted for their role in an undocumented alien smuggling scheme operating in Eagle Pass, Crystal City, Carrizo Springs, Uvalde, San Antonio, Laredo, Dallas and surrounding areas in Texas. Authorities also arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald A. Feith announced that United States District Judge Landya B. McCafferty sentenced Courtney Stone to a term of 18 months in federal prison based upon her previous pleas of guilty to five counts of Wire Fraud and one count of Corruptly Impeding the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The Selection Panel for the Community Police Commission appointed by Mayor Frank G. Jackson will hold its second public meeting, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 at 6:00 pm at the offices of Hispanic Alliance, 3110 w. 25th St. Cleveland, OH 44109. The public meeting will consist of a brief presentation on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment that adds a seventh defendant to the six already charged in connection with a conspiracy to rob a jewelry store. The superseding indictment also adds a home invasion robbery to the carjacking and kidnapping charges included in the original indictment. The superseding indictment was returned on July 28, 2015 and unsealed today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to accelerating American manufacturing and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz’s support of STEM education to create the next generation of engineers and manufacturers, the Energy Department has announced up to $10 million available to establish one or more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: An employee of a nonprofit that served Cleveland’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood was charged with conspiring with a businessman to bribe a city employee in order to receive payment from a $25,000 city grant despite the project’s failure to achieve the equal opportunity employment goals required by the grant agreement, 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 DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $14.5 million in funding for five innovative projects as part of ARPA-E’s newest program, the Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation (TRANSNET). TRANSNET project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration announces the arrival of Special Agent in (SAC) Gary Tuggle. With an area of responsibility that includes all DEA offices in Pennsylvania and Delaware, Mr. Tuggle brings new energy and commitment to the enforcement priorities of the region for which he will oversee.
