News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: National Park Service Announces Special Programs and Events in August.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ronald Alan Cook, a 45-year-old resident of Manchester, has been sentenced to 71 months in prison for robbing the Bank of New Hampshire at 705 Hooksett Road in Manchester on Nov. 10, 2015, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Timothy Slater Named Special Agent in Charge of Denver Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former “Inca" of the Springfield Latin Kings gang was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An associate of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office is accepting public comments on its proposal to lease 16 parcels totaling about 17,000 acres at the Feb. 9, 2017, quarterly oil and gas lease sale.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC) has made recommendations on tangible ways in which the Energy Department can support distributed energy storage (DES) market deployment through technology developments and technical analyses. The EAC’s recommendations on National Distributed Energy Storage in...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a net loss of $1.6 billion in the third quarter of fiscal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Jucorey Deonte Pruitt, aka Corey Deonte Pruitt, 25, of Charlotte, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to a perjury charge for lying under oath during a federal trial, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided Pruitt’s plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansas City, Kan., men were sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for taking part in a plot to commit an armed robbery at a drug house, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: The Maple fire is approximately one-quarter acre in size and was detected Monday evening, August 8 by a smoke jumper aircraft passing over the park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - On Thursday, Aug. 11, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and United States Forest Service will conditionally approve a modified mine plan to allow the production of molybdenum from the Thompson Creek Mine for approximately 10 more years. Molybdenum is used as a component to reduce corrosion...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jucorey Deonte Pruitt, aka Corey Deonte Pruitt, 25, of Charlotte, appeared in court Aug. 9, and pleaded guilty to a perjury charge for lying under oath during a federal trial. U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer presided over Pruitt’s plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Eight Individuals Charged in Multimillion-Dollar Compounding Pharmacy Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Since 1981, Norman Smith has spent countless days and nights, in every imaginable weather condition, observing, capturing, banding, and color marking snowy owls at Logan International Airport. He has collected data on roosting, hunting, and behavior while the birds are on their wintering grounds. Most...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Today, a federal grand jury has returned a 30 count indictment charging 17 defendants with multiple narcotics offenses for their role in a drug trafficking organization that distributed thousands of kilograms of illegal narcotics, including heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine throughout the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced to 300 Months in Prison for Sexual Abuse of Orphans While Working in Malawi.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After 11 remarkable days that spanned 10 states (with a surprise swing through Florida) and 2,100 miles, #Ride4Gabe 2016 is now complete. From Maine to Alabama, Team Gabe inspired countless communities and individuals, raised awareness for Duchenne, and brought more people on the #Path2Cures.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with increased costs from unnecessary regulations, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. The chairmen request that EPA provide both committees’ with documentation related to the formulation of EPA’s current model for creating a regulatory regime for financial assurance for the hard rock mining industry.
