News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: As engineered nanomaterials increasingly find their way into commercial products, researchers who study the potential environmental or health impacts of those materials face a growing challenge to accurately measure and characterize them. These challenges affect measurements of basic chemical and physical properties as well as toxicology assessments.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park celebrates its 100- year anniversary this year. A celebration is planned for July 4th, but centennial activities will be offered throughout the summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Middle School teacher was charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester with attempting to purchase live video sex shows involving Filipino children.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: The year-long celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park's 100th Anniversary continues in July. Please see below for events taking place during the first two weeks in July. This is just a snapshot of all the numerous events. Check the park website regularly, www.nps.gov/romo or follow us on social media @Rockynps for updates on 100th Anniversary events and programs. We hope you can join us for one of these fun events!.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
Release: By Desiree Thomas, International Program Specialist, FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two convicted felons responsible for robbing a Dollar General in Whitehaven have been collectively sentenced to 260 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A man from Katy has entered a guilty plea to a federal hate crime related to the racially-motivated assault of an 81-year-old African-American man, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Honduran national was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Earlier today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which is still considering how to proceed with its June 2013 proposed rule to eliminate Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the gray wolf, dismissed a petition submitted in January to downlist the species from endangered...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: THE HAGUE - Officials from more than 25 countries gathered June 18-19 to discuss the use of virtual currencies by criminal organizations to complete illicit transactions and launder ill-gotten gains. The event was co-hosted by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Europol’s Cybercrime Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Two Palm Beach County residents were sentenced today to possessing and using counterfeit currency.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Restoration is well underway for NIST's 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine, the largest in the world. The three-story-tall deadweight, comprising a stack of stainless steel discs weighing about 50,000 pounds each, was disassembled last winter for the first time in fifty years.*
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston computer industry consultant was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for assuming the identity of an infant who died in 1966 and using that identity to obtain a Social Security number.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: As the July 4 holiday approaches, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reminding residents and visitors to Washington, D.C. that the city and surrounding communities are a “No Drone Zone."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2015 - Today, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Ranking Member RaúlGrijalva (D-AZ) sent a to U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze raising concerns with the BLM’s implementation of the Helium Stewardship Act (HSA), which passed Congress on a bipartisan basis and was signed into law on Oct. 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Shawn Dewayne Cox of Prairie Grove, Christopher Joseph Evans of Colcord, Oklahoma, Spencer Mason of Bentonville, and Erick Picker-Ramirez of Fayetteville were sentenced this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: Possessed 7,750 images and 180 videos depicting child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: A Mississippi man was sentenced to more than four years in prison for a conspiracy in which he defrauded a Tennesse bank out of $1.2 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, adn Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Dawan Nelson, age 33, of Houston, Delaware, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Sue L. Robinson to 88 months incarceration. Nelson had pled guilty to possessing 33 kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and dog fighting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man found with heroin in Huntington in 2013 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. David Darrell Walker, 37, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
