News from November 2015
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Experience the sights and sounds of the 1840s Victorian-era winter holiday season at the annual "Christmas at Fort Vancouver" special event on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015, from 10 am to 3 pm, at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of securities fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2015, which seeks to minimize confusing and misleading information that consumers encounter on food packages.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 20, 2015, Kinsman Bruce Wolfe, 63, of Semmes, Alabama, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge John A. Jarvey to sixty days imprisonment for his role in illegal, guided deer hunts in Southern Iowa, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin VanderSchel. Wolfe...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rozelle Summerise, 39, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 30 years in prison for nine armed robberies, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles will go into effect Dec. 1 on certain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office to protect critical big game winter range and prevent road damage.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation has issued a Record of Decision for the Newlands Project Resource Management Plan Final Environmental Impact Statement. The Newlands Project RMP outlines Reclamation management actions that will be implemented over a 10-year planning span.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2015, which seeks to minimize confusing and misleading information that consumers encounter on food packages.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Nov. 20, JOEL DELEON, 34, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for possession of heroin with intent to distribute.

By DOL Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Jose M. Hernandez Cruz, doing business as JA Siding Construction Services LLC

By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Permits for cutting Christmas trees on Bureau of Land Management lands within designated areas of the Grand Junction Field Office are now on sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Luzerne County man pleaded guilty today in Scranton before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to a federal heroin trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 19, 2015, Jose Manuel Dominguez-Anguiano a/k/a Manuel Francisco Zuniga, age 44, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 46 months in prison on the charges of conspiracy to distribute a mixture or substance containing cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 32-year-old man from Mexico has been ordered to prison after knowingly transporting an illegal alien within the United States for private financial gain, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Victor Manuel Moreno-Ruiz pleaded guilty Sept. 2, 2015, further admitting that during the course of the illegal conduct, a female illegal alien died.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Rio Grande Natural Area Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 9 in Alamosa has been rescheduled due to schedule conflicts. The next meeting has not been scheduled yet. An agenda and further details will be posted online prior to the meeting.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A woman who brought a concealed weapon into the federal building in Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court in Huntington to seven months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Whitney H. Borders, 34, of Huntington, previously pleaded guilty in August 2015 to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Two foreign nationals charged with orchestrating an international mail fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Damonan Irby, age 33, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 3, 4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone or MDMC.

By DOL Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Ramco Erectors Inc. and Isabel Facundo Garcia
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: Jose Francisco Garcia, 28, of Mexico, was sentenced to 60 months in prison on a one-count indictment charging him with Possession with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substance, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced. Following his prison sentence, Garcia will be on federal supervised release for 3 years. In addition, Garcia was ordered to pay a fine of $500 and a $100 special assessment.