News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: On Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016, Fort Pulaski National Monument will continue our celebration of the National Park Service's 100th Anniversary with the eighth event in our Centennial Series, a ranger led Wetlands Walk focusing specifically on the Tidal Marsh located within the boundaries of the monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ADDISON, Ill. - Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a United Parcel Service facility in Addison, a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services, fell 22 feet to his death at the same site.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) today highlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluating federal support for health care services provided by the nation’s hospitals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to five and a half years in federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Chester Estes, 41, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - #Ride4Gabe 2016 is in the midst of cycling across the Empire State. Today’s trek - 190.3 miles - began at 5:30 a.m. in Oneida, NY, and is set to conclude at approximately 6:15 p.m., in Niagara Falls, NY. As the cycling trio continues to pedal their way toward Alabama, here’s a brief digital recap of their travels so far.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluating federal support for health care services provided by the nation’s hospitals...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: The exhibit area at the Carl Hayden Visitor Center will be closed for renovation. The National Park Service and Bureau of Reclamation are collaborating to create brand new exhibits which will be installed later this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that on Aug. 1, 2016, Defendant FREDERICK A. OBAK (“OBAK")was sentenced by the Honorable Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, Chief Judge, District Court of Guam. Defendant was sentenced to serve sixteen (16) years incarceration followed by three years of supervised release, with credit for time served.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluating federal support for health care services provided by the nation’s hospitals...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is excited to announce that in celebration of the National Park Service's Centennial Birthday this year, the park will be hosting classical music performances by Music in the American West. These concerts will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Aug. 12, 13, and 14th.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - An indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Nestor Luis Reverol Torres, the former General Director of Venezuela’s La Oficina Nacional (ONA) and former commander of Venezuela’s National Guard, and Edylberto Jose Molina...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On July 28, 2016, Steven B. Davis, a 58 year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 180 months in prison, and 3 years of supervised release to follow the term of imprisonment, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Employer name: KWS Manufacturing Company Ltd.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Pearl Yonko, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on July 26, 2016, for conspiracy to transport stolen property through interstate commerce. Yonko was arrested in Laramie, Wyoming. She received 15 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSHUA ACOFF, also known as "Fat Boy," 27, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment for distributing crack cocaine, and an additional 12...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Raushi J. Conrad, 42, of Bristow, was arrested today on charges of conspiracy to pay and receive bribes, and acceptance of bribes by a public official.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking public comment on a deferred maintenance and repairs directive and standard. It aims to improve transparency and implement standardization and consistency across Reclamation on how deferred maintenance and repairs are tracked and reported.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Believe it or not, the District of Columbia's largest presidential memorial is not located on the National Mall. It's in the Potomac River. In the river, you say? Can't be. Indeed it is! Theodore Roosevelt Island is a living memorial dedicated to the 26th president. The 88-acre island includes a memorial plaza, statue, and fountains, surrounded by trails in the woods and marsh environs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Euris Daniel Paulino Guerrero, 24, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with two counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to distribute the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
