News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: FAIRBANKS - The Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern Interior Field Office will release a new vintage-style poster and postcards of the Steese National Conservation Area for Earth Day 2016. The posters and postcards will be available to the public at no cost from all BLM offices and public rooms in Alaska after the poster's unveiling at the Fort Wainwright Earth Day celebration on April 26.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is excited to announce a new art exhibition for May, 2016 -National Parks in Duct Tape! The exhibit features landscape pictures made from duct tape by tape artist Chad Farnes. This National Park Service Centennial art exhibit will be at the Homestead Education Center from May 3 -28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman and the local restaurant she owns have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Christopher Craft, 41, of Woodbridge, pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
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 a press conference to commemorate the one-year anniversary of introducing the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would raise wages for...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Utah Senator Says, "If we want to prevent future inversions, we should spend less time tinkering around the regulatory edges and engaging in partisan rhetoric and more time trying to find common ground to actually fix our tax code.".
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: General Electric, Circleville Lamp Plant, Circleville, Ohio
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on April 21, 2016, Eric Lee Webb, 31, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that MICHAEL DAVID PITTS, age 41, has pled guilty to a Bill of Information which charges him with wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Amedisys, Incorporated, a home health and hospice care company with a substantial presence...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an auction Tuesday, April 26 at 10 a.m. to sell 40 parcels, totaling 846.16 acres. Parcels vary in size from 1.25 to 247.6 acres and are located in the Las Vegas Valley.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a cash reward for information leading to a conviction of persons responsible for vandalism in the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Uintah County, UT & Moffat County, CO - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 291,800 visitors to Dinosaur National Monument in 2015 spent $17,079,100 in communities near the park. That spending supported 233 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $19,279,500.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: This morning, 33-year-old Joshua Alan Taylor of El Paso was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for accessing, receiving and possessing child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Unlicensed Pilot Flew Through Three No-Fly Zones.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with robbing a Citizens Bank in Brighton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that three Eagle Butte, South Dakota, men convicted for their roles in burning down a 98-year-old church on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation were sentenced on April 18, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: Sanoh America Inc., 1849 Industrial Dr., Findlay, Ohio
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Weston, 36, of Portland, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to seven years in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Keenan Powell-Ryder, 20, of Gainesville, Georgia, made his initial appearance April 20, 2016, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged in a complaint with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. At a preliminary hearing held today, probable cause was found to arrest Powell-Ryder, who was subsequently released on an appearance bond with numerous conditions of release.
