News from April 2016
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: On April 13, I attended the premiere screening of the documentary film “Red Power Energy," the first in the Denver-based International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management’s 2016 Indigenous Film Series. Shown on the oversized screen at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Phipps Theater, the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposed land exchange that could increase public access and big game winter range in Grand and Summit counties. The BLM will prepare an environmental impact statement to evaluate the proposal, and is initiating the scoping process.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Clinton, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing child pornography over the Internet. Benjamin A. Bowers, 27, of Clinton, pleaded guilty before...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016, and continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park (ADIP) programs with the public in May. All ADIP and Hawaiian cultural programs are free, but park entrance fees apply. Programs are co-sponsored by Friends of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and Hawai'i Pacific Parks Association. Mark the calendar for these upcoming events.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: RAWLINS, WY. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the public comment period on the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre (CCSM) Phase I Wind Turbine Development Environmental Assessment (EA) and Draft Finding of No New Significant Impacts (FONNSI) until May 6, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Springdale, UT- A pair of California condors appear to be nesting again in Zion National Park. Park staff first observed the pair entering a cavity in Zion Canyon on Feb. 26, 2016. Since then, the pair has been regularly observed in the cavity and the surrounding area. Biologists from The Peregrine Fund, the private non-profit that releases and monitors condors, has confirmed that GPS locations and daily behavior of both parents indicate regular incubation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., real estate developer, Gene T. Hardwick, 73, entered a plea of guilty yesterday to a single count of bank fraud related to a $3.9 million bank loan he received in 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Scranton has indicted a federal inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Allenwood for assaulting two federal corrections officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A former office manager with Dykon Explosive Demolition Company pleaded guilty today to embezzling from the Tulsa-based precision drilling and blasting contractor who estimated their total losses to be $884,890.08, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Auxvasse, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing 21 firearms and three firearm silencers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), chairman of the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, along with Rep. Charles Boustany, chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy, and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), today introduced a resolution, under the Congressional Review ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Finance Democrats today sent a letter.pdf) to Senate Finance Committee majority members calling for bipartisan action to help protect honest taxpayers from tax fraud -- whether it’s by identity theft or unscrupulous tax return preparers.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - Two Bismarck companies have been cited by federal safety inspectors for failing to protect workers from fall hazards of up to 18 feet at a residential home construction site in the 4600 block of Greyhawk Lane in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ probation, the first year of which to be served as home confinement, on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Eliseo Ortiz orchestrated tax fraud scheme while incarcerated at Stillwater Correctional Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Defendant Failed to Turn Over Payroll Taxes Withheld from Employees.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., will hold a press conference following the Senate’s vote on S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act. The press conference will begin at 10:30 a.m. EST on Wednesday, April 20 in the Senate Radio and TV Press Gallery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On April 18, 2016 a federal jury in Eugene, Oregon, convicted Kenneth Medenbach, 63, of Crescent, Oregon, for unlawful occupying federal lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Washington - This week, representatives from USDA's Rural Development team will be celebrating Earth Day by visiting newly funded projects that will improve rural water quality and safety in 33 states across the country. USDA is investing $183 million in 60 water and wastewater infrastructure projects...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Greene County, Mo., Deputy Sheriff has pleaded guilty in federal court to receiving and distributing child pornography. Juan T. Jones, 28, of Springfield...
