News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Richard Midgett, 50, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to a charge of distribution of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: For the past five years, the National Park Service has partnered with the Warren Lasch Conservation Center, a part of Clemson University, located in North Charleston, South Carolina, to conserve historic metals at Fort Sumter National Monument. Through the Adopt-A-Cannon Program the Fort Sumter-Fort...
By State Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing that examines U.S. policy in Syria. The hearing is entitled “U.S. Policy After Russia’s Escalation in Syria.".
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is completing a Preliminary Environmental Assessment to amend the existing Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. right-of-way, so the cooperative can upgrade the Montrose-Nucla-Cahone Transmission Line originally built in 1958.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that three defendants were sentenced on drug charges in federal court in Bluefield, West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to the White House’s memorandum on “Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment.".
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's El Paso Area Office and the David L. Carrasco Job Corps Center in El Paso.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAROLD HARRINGTON, also known as “Chopper" and “Chapo," 27, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participating in a drug robbery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Antonio Cottingham, 28, of Fairmont, West Virginia, with unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Witnesses: Mr. Peter Neffenger, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Honorable John Roth, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ms. Jennifer Grover, Director, Homeland Security and Justice, U.S. Government Accountability Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Jermaine Winters, 39, of Coleman, Florida, Senora Cotton, 24, of Chipley, Florida, and Rosetta Presley, 23, of Chipley, Florida, were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with the electronic filing of false...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Harry Dallas, 54, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with two counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on Sept. 16, 2015, Dallas robbed the Citizens Bank at 7327 Frankford Avenue and, on Sept. 20, 2015, robbed the TD Bank at 6635 Frankford Avenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Thaddeus Cheyenne Murphy, age 44, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 60 months (5 years) in federal prison for causing damage to a building by means of fire and explosion and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Farmington, Conn. businessman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield yesterday in connection with trafficking untaxed tobacco products.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Six Alaskans have been appointed to fill vacancies on the 15-member Bureau of Land Management Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land management issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Cory M. Yant (age: 35), Zachary C. Sternhagen (age: 31), and Kong P. Vang (age: 21) charging each of them with being felons in possession of a firearm...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico-San Juan National Historic Site invites you to celebrate International Kid's Day on Sunday, November 8th on the grounds of Castillo San Felipe del Morro from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.First proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, International Kids Day was established...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Gene Autry Brinager, Jr., 52, of Delbarton, Mingo County, West Virginia pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to lying on a form when purchasing a firearm from a federally licensed firearms dealer. In April of 2010...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a leading critic of the Keystone XL pipeline proposal who published a Feb. 26, 2014, New York Times op-ed urging President Obama to reject it, today hailed the announcement that Keystone’s parent company is...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT/ LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/MONROE/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and the Department of Justice announced that 16 grants totaling more than $2.4 million have been awarded to 15 agencies within the Western District of Louisiana.
