News from April 2016
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: DOE co-funded the $2.065 million Menominee Tribal Enterprises project in Wisconsin, matching the Tribe’s $1.03 million investment to install the new combined heat and power system, which generates steam and electricity using renewable biomass fuel to power the Tribe’s sawmill and lumber drying operation. Photo from Menominee Tribal Enterprises.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico has been sentenced in federal court to 14 months in prison for violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Dale J. Sexton (47), formerly of Barneveld, New York, was arrested this morning at his residence in Bradenton, Florida, for filing false income tax returns and for impeding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in its administration of the internal revenue laws. Sexton was named last...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks at an event hosted by the National Governors Association (NGA) and Jobs for the Future to discuss efforts to expand apprenticeships. Last...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Olufunsho Adeshina, a native of Nigeria residing in St. Louis, was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment for his participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2015 shows that the spending by more than 56 million visitors to national parks in the National Capital Region resulted in 16,917jobs and contributed almost $1.6 billion to the region's economy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Since 2011 the National Park Service has been working with physicians to promote parks as places where patients can walk to improve cardiac health.The Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative has been a successful way to introduce visitors to the outdoors and to experience natural and cultural wonders of our nation's parks, while becoming healthier as they do so.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 1,002,373 visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 2015spent $63,192,300in communities near the park.That spending supported 979 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $77,644,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of distributing cocaine base, in the form commonly known as "crack," United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: What’s not to like about an automated government system that’s faster, simpler and more user-friendly than the paper-based system it supplements?
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, man will appear in federal court today to face charges that he conspired to defraud millions from the Post 9/11 GI Bill, a federal education benefits program designed to help veterans who served in the armed forces following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Interior, SD -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 4.2 million visitors to national park sites in the Black Hills/Badlands area in 2015 spent $276.2 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 4,677 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $355.6 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Graves, Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, and Chairman Rogers for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Santiago Sanchez, 39, of Mexico, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for trafficking large quantities of crystal methamphetamine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Sanchez pleaded guilty in December 2015 to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Who Were the Women Who Settled Nebraska will be presented at Homestead National Monument of America,Thursday April 28, 2016 at 7 p.m. Dr. Rebecca Wingo, from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be sharing new research on women homesteaders during this special presentation at the Homestead...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: KIMBERLY, OREGON - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 196,276 visitors to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in 2015 spent $9,146,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 141j obs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $10,759,100.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former member of the Mount Olive Township Board of Education (MOBOE) today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud the school district of $371,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston doctor pleaded guilty today to a federal crime involving the illegal dispensing of fentanyl. Dr. Iraj Derakhshan, 72, entered his guilty plea to violating reporting requirements mandated by federal drug laws for dispensing controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dylan Lee Hamrick, 23, of Belington, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Clarksburg today to drug and firearms offenses, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Resource Advisory Council/ Recreation Resource Advisory Council will host a meeting on Thursday, May 5, 2016, from 8:00 a.m.-3:45 p.m.
