News from August 2016
By DOT News Wire | Aug 5, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Aug. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Belle Glade, Florida-based Billy R. Evans Harvesting, Inc., USDOT No. 1310998, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation found the company to pose an imminent hazard to public safety.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Belle Glade, Florida-based Billy R. Evans Harvesting, Inc., USDOT No. 1310998, to immediately cease all intrastate and interstate operations after a federal investigation found the company to pose an imminent hazard to public safety.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: FTA Launches National Online Dialogue to Seek Ideas for 5-Year Research Strategic Plan
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal yesterday today found Altius Willix (47, Winter Haven) guilty of conspiracy, attempted possession of methamphetamine, and assaulting federal officers, inflicting bodily injury. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of life imprisonment. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Jeremy Blaine Harris, 39, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 70 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Harris to serve five years of supervised release. Harris pleaded guilty on May 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: SAVANNAH GA- Liberty County resident Timecka Green, 32, was sentenced earlier this week by District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 10 years in federal prison for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy that operated in Liberty County and elsewhere. In May of this year, a federal jury convicted her of conspiracy to make and sell cocaine and crack cocaine, for possessing cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to sell and for making crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposal to bait-trap wild horses in northwestern Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin in order to administer fertility treatments and remove up to 50 horses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released the final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the operational exchange of up to 10,000 acre-feet between the City of Fresno and Fresno Irrigation District for water deliveries between Millerton Lake and San Luis Reservoir.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Search efforts continued in Grand Teton National Park for 16-year old Fauna Jackson, a member of Groundwork USA working on a service project in the park. Jackson was reported missing at approximately 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 4.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Evening programs are a proud tradition in our National Parks dating back to the first ranger programs.As we celebrate the National Park Service Centennial year, please join the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) National Historical Park to commemorate a century of campfire programs with the National Park Service. Sing songs and listen to stories from across America's National Parks as well as night-time themed canal stories!.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Dayton, Ky., man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - CHARLES MICHAEL SEGALOFF (a/k/a "Michael Makai," "Mike Sage," "Daddy," "Papa," and "Master"), age 60, of Lawton, Oklahoma was sentenced yesterday to twenty-four months in federal prison (the statutory maximum prison term allowable for the offense) for sending offensive material to an individual under 18 years of age, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Johnathan Quavehema, 23, of Second Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 14 years of imprisonment. Quavehema had previously pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit murder.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Recent floodwater from the Paria River has undercut the Lonely Dell Access Road in Lees Ferry.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Torres Produce satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Former Officer Willie Fred Knowles, 66, of the Homer Police Department pleaded guilty today to violating the civil rights of a woman identified only as K.M., announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana. Knowles also pleaded guilty to making false statements about the incident to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Tanga J. Tarnower, 73, of Navarre, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and 1 day in prison and ordered to pay $132,957.70 in restitution to the Social Security Administration after pleading guilty in April 2016 to theft of government money. The sentence was announced today by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: Winnemucca, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Winnemucca District, Humboldt River Field Office has issued a Decision Record and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Gold Acquisition Corporation (GAC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Pershing Gold Corporation, on its Relief Canyon project. The Relief Canyon Mine is located in Pershing County approximately 17.5 miles east northeast of Lovelock, in Packard Flat between the Humboldt and West Humboldt ranges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2016
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens announced today a civil settlement with a series of anesthesia businesses, collectively known as Sweet Dreams Nurse Anesthesia (Sweet Dreams). Sweet Dreams agreed to pay to the...
