News from June 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-- The National Park Service announced today that Perini Management Services was awarded a $5.6 million contract to begin restoring the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site. This contract is for the first phase of a three-phase project. Phase one will restore the interior and exterior of Dr. Woodson's home and stabilize the adjacent buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A former law firm bookkeeper, who previously pled guilty to embezzlement charges, was sentenced last week in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Clint Michael Landry, 58, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced on Friday, June 5, 2015, by Chief United States District Court Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 10 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime period of supervised release for Attempted Enticement of a Minor, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued the following joint statement in response to today’s announcement from the Department of Education regarding Corinthian Colleges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Etienne Q. Devoe, 42, of Fairbanks, Alaska, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 126 months in prison to be followed by a five year term of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin, and conspiring to launder the proceeds from the sale of those drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host the Fourteenth Annual Don Redman Heritage Awards & Concert. This year’s event will honor and feature master jazz pianist, George Cables and legendary trumpeter, Dr. Eddie Henderson. The two men will be joined by the Howard Burns Quartet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh returned a 39 count indictment (attached) and the defendants were arrested for conspiring to manufacture and distribute cocaine and cocaine base (crack) in large quantities over a four plus years’ time frame.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement on ISIS’s advances in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former director of the masters of business administration program at Pittsburg State University was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. He was ordered to pay $148,430 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: In remarks directed to the crews of NOAA ships, Vice Admiral Michael S. Devany, NOAA deputy under secretary for operations, said, "Most Arctic waters that are charted were surveyed with obsolete technology, with some of the information dating back to Captain Cook's voyages, long before the region was part of the United States. Your work this summer is a crucial mission in our determination to make the Arctic seas safer for shipping, sustenance, and marine life."
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for candidates to serve on the Cotton Board.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: As a part of the Administration’s effort to help cut energy waste, the Energy Department and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will recognize the Denver Housing Authority and the cities of Denver and Arvada, Colorado today for their leadership in the Better Buildings Challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Michelle M. Clemons, 32, of Independence, Ky., was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 30 months in prison for three counts of wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Twenty-two year old Morgan Heimer remains missing on the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park;and a six day search by the National Park Service has turned up no additional clues as to his whereabouts.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education announcing critical debt relief for students impacted by the closure and bankruptcy of Corinthian Colleges, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The founder and chief executive officer of a firm that solicited more than $5 million from victims who thought they were investing in “reverse life insurance" policies has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: A woman who unlawfully used another person’s identity to file a fraudulent tax return and steal money from the government pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: CHEYENNE, Okla.--Dr. Mary Jane Warde, author and historian, earned a B.A. at the University of Tennessee, Martin, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at Oklahoma State University. For eight years, she was an Indian Historian/Indian Archivist with the Oklahoma Historical Society. During her tenure there, her work included collecting nearly eighty oral histories, mostly from Indian people, and helping design the Indian Gallery in the new Oklahoma Museum of History.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: The Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected ten projects to receive funding through NETL’s Advanced Combustion Systems Program. The program focuses on lowering costs and improving performance of combustion systems that generate electricity with near-zero emissions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - STEVEN HENRY KEMPER, Saint Louis County, was sentenced to 70 months in prison in connection with the Nov. 16, 2001, arson of his family’s home in Florissant, Missouri. Kemper’s 15-year-old son, Zachariah Andrew Kemper, was trapped in the basement and killed during the fire. Kemper...
