News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Springdale, Utah: Brian Artmann, age 24 and a resident of Henderson, NV, died over the weekend after taking a fall in Zion National Park. Artmann and three fellow canyoneers were attempting to complete Heaps Canyon at the time of the accident. Artmann fell nearly 100 feet at approximately 7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 11. Due to the remoteness of the area, his companions were unable to get fully out of the canyon and notify the park until almost 11:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced Tony Lee Drum, 32, of Charlotte, to 188 months in prison for two counts of sex trafficking of minors and two counts of transporting minors across states lines for purposes of prostitution, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn also sentenced Drum to a lifetime of supervised release upon completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Daniel Chase Harris, 31, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 600 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release for his crimes including production of child pornography, use of a facility of interstate commerce to entice a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, receipt of child pornography, transportation of child pornography, possession of child pornography and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Muhammad Dalalli Sentenced for Role in Welfare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge U.S. District Court Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Shamorcus Brandan Nesbitt (28, Tampa) to 29 years in federal prison for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, interference with commerce by robbery, carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of firearm and ammunition. Nesbitt was found guilty by a federal jury on Feb. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man who pled guilty to the December 9, 2014 robbery of the Mid Penn Bank on North Front Street in Harrisburg has been charged with four additional bank robberies.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today underscored the importance of promoting fuel diversification and greater efficiency at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing she convened on the unique challenges facing isolated energy systems in places like Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for selling 33 firearms to a confidential informant, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement as U.S. negotiators concluded a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. During the last 18 months of negotiations, the Committee has held numerous hearings examining the nuclear negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Saralyn Ann Proschko, 46, of Victoria, and David Ray McGee, 47, of Wallis, have been charged in a criminal complaint with production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremiah Ray Johnson, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sheepsprings, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to two years of probation for his misdemeanor assault conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: The Commerce Department's Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program is signing up a new round of industry collaborators for the test bed used to evaluate advanced broadband equipment and software for emergency first responders.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released the Regulatory Side-by-Side Governing Permitting of Cross-Border Electricity Transmission Facilities between the United States and Canada, which presents a series of side-by-side tables that describe the U.S. and Canadian regulatory...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Last week’s disaster on the House floor demonstrates again the need to get serious about the Appropriations process. Instead of continuing along a track even the Chairman acknowledges is “next to impossible" to accomplish, Republicans and Democrats should develop a new budget deal that allows responsible investments in public safety and other critical priorities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on the bureaucratic delays and lack of transparency with the federal permitting process for seismic surveying in the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Since the Department of the Interior first initiated the regulatory process in 2009 to allow seismic surveying in the Atlantic OCS, not a single permit has been granted by the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Ten individuals in three states were charged in federal court yesterday with conspiracy to distribute heroin, in connection with a Lawrence-based heroin operation. The ten were charged in two related criminal complaints.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor supporting an amendment to the Every Child Achieves Act that would expand access to early learning programs. In her remarks, Murray highlighted...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Draft Environmental Assessment for the Western Dublin Recycled Water Project and will provide partial funding to the Dublin San Ramon Services District, extending recycled water distribution pipelines to serve landscape irrigation demands at several schools, parks, streetscapes and medians, and the common area of developed areas in Western Dublin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, Central California Area Office, will temporarily close the Capell Cove Launch Ramp at Lake Berryessa starting the week of July 20. Drought conditions and receding water levels are causing the Capell Cove Launch Ramp to become unusable. Reclamation wants to keep the ramp available for public use as long as possible, however, so the exact closure date is not yet known. The launch ramp will be re-opened when lake levels rise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Bertha Augustus Croom, age 60, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty on Monday, July 6, 2015 before United States District Judge Shelly Dick to defrauding the U.S. Social Security Administration for more than a decade.
