News from April 2016
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is soliciting applications for grants to establish broadband in unserved rural communities through its Community Connect program. Community Connect is administered by USDA's Rural Utilities Service and helps to fund broadband deployment into rural communities where it is not economically viable for private sector providers to provide service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Basilio Amaury Bron, Jr. (35, Fort Myers) to seven years and three months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the handgun and ammunition that had been used in the offense.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park joined the new Find Your Park GeoTour launched today by Geocaching HQ in Seattle, Washington. In honor of the National Park Service Centennial and the Find Your Park campaign, Geocaching HQ created a customized presentation - a GeoTour - of geocaching opportunities at national parks and partner places across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An owner of a blood diagnostic company located in Essex County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to nine months in prison for paying a doctor cash bribes for patient lab work referrals, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Possessed 70 Counterfeit $100 Bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Granby, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Kyle Christopher Largen, 30, of Granby, was sentenced by...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: In the spirit of celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is adding two ranger-guided waterfall hikes to those previously scheduled for Waterfall Week this week.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Redding Field Office is requesting public comments regarding a proposed weed and vegetation management program.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Oak Ridge, TN - Manhattan Project National Historical Park is recruiting teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) program this summer. The TRT program is a professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers to spend the summer (June 6 through July 18) acquiring new skills in experiential...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - Beginning April 18 through the month of July, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the Bureau of Reclamation and California State Parks, is scheduled to perform routine Safety of Dams Program exploratory drilling along portions of Folsom Reservoir’s Dike 4, 5 and 6. The dikes are earthen embankments on the northwest shore of Folsom Reservoir, near the intersection of Auburn-Folsom and Eureka Roads in Granite Bay.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Neisha Necel Williams, 35, of Los Angeles, Calif., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a cocaine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Randal Wilson was indicted on multiple fraud charges involving his misappropriation of over $80,000 from the Ethical Society of Police, an association of black St. Louis police officers.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: Getting rid of gray discoloring in foods such as fresh noodles, breads and refrigerated biscuits is now possible, thanks to a new white hard wheat breeding line developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Euris Daniel Paulino Guerrero, 24, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to two counts of distribution of the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl and one count of...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The public is invited to celebrate Earth Day by watching the PBS documentary, “America Revealed" episode “Electric Nation," narrated by Yul Kwon at the Anasazi Heritage Center on Friday April 22, 2016, at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. Admission to the museum and to view the documentary is free.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2016
News Release: ROBERT L. CAPERS and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorneys for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, respectively, announced today that special telephone numbers have been set up to receive complaints of possible violations of federal election laws relating to the upcoming primary elections in New York City and other counties in their districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Arthur McCants, III, 68 year old resident of Eight Mile, Alabama, was sentenced today before the Honorable District Court Judge William E. Steele.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2016
News Release: PLAINS, Georgia - Former President Jimmy Carter was bestowed the award and title of honorary national park ranger at an intimate ceremony Sunday by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. This is the highest civilian honor awarded by the agency, and is reserved for individuals whose contribution to the National Park System is exceptional.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2016
News Release: The Four-day multi-agency search for missing 25-year old Tim Ritarita of Sevier County, Utah concluded when his body was located at a depth of 143 feet in the Kane County, Utah portion of Wahweap Bay in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2016
News Release: PLAINS, Georgia - Former President Jimmy Carter was bestowed the award and title of honorary national park ranger at an intimate ceremony Sunday by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. This is the highest civilian honor awarded by the agency, and is reserved for individuals whose contribution to the National Park System is exceptional.
