News from September 2015
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 Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for transporting an individual across states lines for prostitution.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management recently opened a new area for public wood-cutting in Eagle County.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Barstow-Mojave National Preserve invites all 4th grade students to visit the park as part of the White House's new Every Kid in a Park program. Starting on September 1st, all 4th grade students can go to www.everykidinapark.gov to complete an activity and obtain a free annual entry pass to more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including national parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House today approved five bills to protect consumers, protect children, and improve public health.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Peter Douglas McGarry, 50, a native of Ireland, was sentenced today to 47 months in prison for possession of child pornography and accessing child pornography on the internet with the intent to view child pornography. McGarry possessed child pornography on a Microsoft computer storage...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Goldsmith Romero, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scott S. Dahl, the Inspector...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24-year-old woman from Houston has been convicted of creating and distributing videos depicting the torture and killing of puppies, chickens and kittens, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ashley Nicole Richards entered a guilty plea today, admitting she produced and distributed what is referred to as “animal crush videos.".
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Dr. Jennifer Perry will discuss recent findings about the settlement of the interior regions of Santa Cruz Island by the Island Chumash during the September From Shore to Sea lecture.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a markup for Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider H.R. 702, “to adapt to changing crude oil market conditions." This week’s vote continues the committee’s work on lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Major storms over the last few days caused significant damage to roads in the Tuweep area of Grand Canyon National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a markup for Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider H.R. 702, “to adapt to changing crude oil market conditions." This week’s vote continues the committee’s work on lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Another Marion man was indicted for the sale of heroin and fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Agent in Charge Joseph P. Reagan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Troy Wooley, 48, of Newport, Oregon, pled guilty to possession of child pornography and was sentenced today by Chief U. S. District Judge Ann Aiken to 120 months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Eulogio Rodriguez-Fernandez, 58, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, and Santos Macedoni Barragan, 31, of Moorefield, West Virginia, were convicted of cocaine trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - The owner of a Morris County, New Jersey, freight shipping company was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for billing a medical devices and pharmaceutical company more than $3 million for services that were never provided, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Farrell Larson, 67, of Meadow, Utah, was sentenced today to five years of probation and 100 hours of community service for fraudulent transfer and concealment of assets in a bankruptcy, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Larson to pay restitution in the amount of $47,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Bassam Arif Al Zarkani, 33, of Dumas, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 27 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in July 2015 to one count of attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that it has awarded $100 million in contracts to eight companies to develop and demonstrate technologies that reduce fuel consumption, emissions, and noise under the second phase of its Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions, and Noise (CLEEN II) program.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2015
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - Volunteers are needed Sept. 19 to help expand the popular hiking and biking trail system adjacent to Meeker, Colo.
