News from September 2015
By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today regarding the threat by some Senate Democrats to filibuster the resolution of disapproval on the Iran nuclear agreement.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, Sept. 10, the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), together with Sandia National Laboratories, will present a kick-off webinar for the Energy Storage Safety Working Group on Safety Validation and Risk Assessment Research and Development. Information on current...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Detroit Gang Leader Sentenced to 35 Years for Violent Racketeering-Related Crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park announces the upcoming flight plans for September and October 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management Alaska will host the second workshop for the northeast National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) regional mitigation strategy on September 24 and 25. The workshop is open to the public and will take place at the Inupiat Heritage Center in Barrow, Alaska from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 24 and from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Sept. 25.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, September 8, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today delivered remarks at the National Press Club encouraging Congress to act quickly to reauthorize a strong Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and support the ongoing success of the healthier meals now being served in schools across...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Houston Woman Convicted of Producing and Distributing Animal Crush Videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 27-year-old Irving, Texas, man, Frank Olivarez, Jr., who pleaded guilty in December 2014 to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 144 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, will be closed on Mondays, beginning Sept. 14, 2015, and remain closed every Monday until Memorial Day 2016. On Tuesday November 3rd, Sagamore Hill will be closed and remain closed every Monday and Tuesday until Memorial Day 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kingsville, Mo., husband and wife were sentenced in federal court today for a $664,000 bank fraud scheme related to his work on a Lee’s Summit, Mo., subdivision.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee. Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider . Witnesses: * Mr. James Bopp, Jr., General Counsel, National Right to Life. * Ms. Melissa Ohden, Abortion Survivor. * Ms. Gianna Jessen, Abortion ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who participated in a heroin distribution conspiracy between 2013 and 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Sean L. Gist, 21, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Huntington to conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced Markeith DEVON WILSON, 27, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 121 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tyrell Skipper, 25, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON CALABRESE, 44, of Watertown, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to six months of imprisonment, followed by three months of home confinement and two years of supervised release, for his involvement in a series of fraudulent mortgage loan applications. CALABRESE also was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and $400,585 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Laquanda Boyce, age 33, of Nashville pleaded guilty on September 4, 2015, to conspiring with Michael Calloway aka Oso, 20, also of Nashville, to tamper with a witness, announced United States Attorney David Rivera. Boyce and Calloway were indicted in May of this year after trying to pay a witness to change his testimony.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National President of the Phantom Outlaw Motorcycle Club and “Three-Star General" of the Vice Lords street gang in Michigan was sentenced today to serve 35 years in prison for violent racketeering-related crimes. To date, 12 other defendants have been convicted of federal offenses related to their roles in this violent conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission will meet 1-3 pm on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Moore Auditorium (65 Acadia Drive) at the Schoodic Education and Research Center in Winter Harbor.The meeting is open to the public and will include an opportunity for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Columbia, Mo., men have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine after law enforcement officers seized several pounds of methamphetamine.
