News from August 2016
By DOT News Wire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Eight projects to pilot alternative revenue approaches to support the Highway Trust Fund
By DOT News Wire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: PHMSA Issues Public Invitation to Comment on Application for Federal Preemption on California Meal and Rest Break Requirements. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today published a Public Notice and Invitation to comment on an application from the National Tank Truck Carriers ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Transfer Supports the Development of Expanded Port Facilities
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of EITAN BENJAMIN FELDMAN, 30, to 18 months in prison for illegally dealing in firearms without a license. The defendant pleaded guilty on April 29, 2016, and was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in United States District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Applications will be accepted starting Thursday, Sept. 1, for those interested in obtaining a permit for a non-commercially guided snowmobile trip into Yellowstone National Park during the 2016-2017 winter season. A permit is required for all non-commercially guided snowmobile groups to enter the park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is participating in a national traffic safety campaign to reduce impaired driving on roads in Acadia National Park and throughout the neighboring communities on Mount Desert Island. Beginning September 3 and continuing through the fall, park rangers will be conducting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Mother and Son Plead Guilty to Orchestrating $16 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme at Two Miami Pharmacies.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominations of 15 growers and shellers (handlers) to serve on the American Pecan Council. Members of the council will be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the federal marketing order with oversight by AMS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Tyrone Anwan Broadnax, 35, a multi-convicted felon who has sold drugs and perpetrated violence in Savannah for many years, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 168 months in prison for trafficking cocaine, crack cocaine, and ethylone, a Schedule I psychedelic controlled substance.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, at 4:00 p.m., Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will host a free InstaMeet event to celebrate the National Park Service Centennial. An InstaMeet is an interactive, in-park event, allowing visitors to meet up, take photos, and get to know each other. Once the visitors meet, they will accompany a park ranger on a historic building tour.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RYAN WELCH, 22, of Salem, Mass., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to three years of probation, the first six months of which WELCH must spend in home confinement, for distributing a synthetic hallucinogenic drug at Wesleyan University. Judge Bolden also ordered WELCH to perform 200 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced the guilty plea today of a Roanoke man to a federal drug charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jermaine Johnson, age 42, of York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane to seven years in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that John T. Hines, 50, of Swanville, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to unlawfully possessing four firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory L. Clark, age 26, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a Naperville man on child pornography charges for allegedly recording minor boys having sexual acts performed on them.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Pamela B. Lewis has been sentenced for stealing over $1.2 million from her employer, an accounting firm, and her employer's client.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: Travis Felty Previously Pled Guilty to Federal Charges Related to Manufacturing Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: THURMONT, Md. -Catoctin Mountain Park celebrated the 100th birthday of the National Park Service with a Centennial Extravaganza at Camp Greentop from 10-3 on Saturday, August 27.The event was planned and hosted by the park and its partner, the Catoctin Forest Alliance (CFA).It was designed to showcase significant eras in the history of Catoctin Mountain through exhibits, demonstrations, programs and interactive activities presented by park rangers, volunteers and partners.
