News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: New National Program Encourages Families and Classes to Visit National Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Christopher James Everding (28, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to entice a child to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is launching the Every Kid in a Park Initiative. The immediate goal is to provide the opportunity for each and every fourth grade student (or 10-year old) across the country to experience their public lands and waters in person throughout the 2015-2016 school year.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has released the 2014/2015 Economic Dispatch and Technological Change Report to Congress. In this report, the Department of Energy is responding to Sections 1234 and 1832 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which directed the Secretary of Energy to conduct an annual study of economic dispatch and potential ways to improve such dispatch to benefit American electricity consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging three people in an investment scheme, involving a Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based company, that defrauded more than 300 investors from around the country. Troy Wragg, 34, a former resident of Philadelphia, PA, Amanda Knorr, 32, of Hellertown, PA...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Arrest part of an international undercover investigation by Toronto, Ontario police.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tested water and sediment in Lake Powell, including the San Juan arm of Lake Powell. Testing was conducted to assess contaminant levels resulting from the Gold King Mine spill. All contaminants tested met drinking water standards and sediment results met recreational screening levels as well. Sampling results from Lake Powell are posted on the EPA website at.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Schwana Debnam, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the defendant applied for and received Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA") benefits...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: DENVER - When an employee of a Utah based company discovered possible evidence of securities fraud, he spoke up about his internal investigations and concerns the company was making false representations to potential clients. The company responded by discharging him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., today returned a guilty verdict against Francisco Melgar-Cabrera, 31, on Hobbs Act robbery and felony murder charges stemming from the armed robberies of two Albuquerque-area restaurants and murder of Stephanie Anderson in June 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Ordered to pay $56,543.93 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement today after the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced new guidance for the use of cell-site stimulators, commonly referred to as “Stingrays":
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: SALEM, MA- This fall the National Park Service will begin three separate projects to enhance the visitor experience along historic Derby and Central Wharves at Salem Maritime National Historic Site. These projects include the launch of a new public program, "Cinema by the Sea," the removal of the non-historic...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 20-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The Two Hundred and Ninety-Ninth meeting of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission will take place on Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, at 1:00 P.M., in the meeting room at Headquarters, 99 Marconi Station Road, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts to discuss the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael Theodore Bennett, age 46, of Baltimore, an employee at the Baltimore City Landfill, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to steal from a program receiving federal funds, wire fraud and failure to file a tax return in connection with a scheme in which employees stole scrap metal from the Baltimore City Landfill for personal gain.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - OLAJUWON DAVIS and BRANDON ORLANDO BALDWIN were each sentenced to 84 months in prison on charges of planning and conspiring to ignite explosive devices during the Ferguson protests and procuring firearms for convicted felons.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Kimberly, Ore. -- Recently discovered fossils at Oregon’s John Day Fossil Beds National Monument reveal a new species that scientists believe was the last non-human primate in North America.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 36-year-old Agustin Sergio Deleon Garza to life in federal prison for his role in the kidnapping of a Mexican businessman in December 2013 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s Houston Division.
