News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: King Salmon, Alaska - A new National Park Service report shows that 37,818 visitors to Katmai National Park and Preserve in 2015 spent $58,343,144 in communities near the park. That spending supported 765 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $83,062,677.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: PSA Launched in Advance of Saturday’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing on prospects for peace and security in South Sudan...
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the future of American foreign policy priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted two northeast Alabama men for burglarizing a U.S. Post Office in Joppa, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: On April 26, 2016, Jeremy R. Colwell, a thirty-three year old man from East Alton, Illinois, was charged by complaint in federal district court, in East St. Louis, for three counts of Conveying a False Threat, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - On Saturday, April 30th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will provide the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. This is the eleventh opportunity in six years that DEA has offered this free service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Drop-Off Locations will be Located throughout the Roanoke Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin today sentenced JOHN DENNIS HASTERT, 74, of Plano, to 15 months in federal prison. Hastert pleaded guilty last year to one count of illegally structuring cash withdrawals in order to evade financial reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Birmingham man for stealing someone’s identifying personal information and using it to fraudulently obtain credit, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Postal Inspection Service Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), introduced H.R. 5090, legislation that would prevent the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) from permitting a foreign air carrier to operate between European countries...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distribution of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced William Roland Baker (65, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Baker was also sentenced to a term of 10 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: FBI, Navajo Nation Look for Sexual Assault Suspect.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced William Roland Baker (65, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. Baker was also sentenced to a term of 10 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to a year and a half in prison for a federal drug crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Donovan Hardison, 26, previously pleaded guilty in January 2016 to possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A convicted felon and member of the 92nd Street Hoover Crips gang has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm - a.22-caliber revolver that he sold.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a bill to protect seniors in Medicare from high out-of-pocket costs in Part D plans. The bill, called the “Reducing Existing Costs Associated with Pharmaceuticals for Seniors Act of 2016" (RxCAP), would eliminate all cost-sharing for beneficiaries above the current out-of-pocket threshold of about $7,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man previously convicted of rape pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield yesterday in connection with unlawfully selling a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) announced plans to introduce a government reform package Wednesday during a hearing of the committee he leads, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
