News from August 2016
By DOT News Wire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Requirement could save lives and more than $1 billion in fuel each year
By DOT News Wire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines for providing inaccurate information to passengers about how much compensation they could potentially receive for being denied boarding against their will, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: A Millersburg man was charged in a seven-count indictment with crimes related to fraudulently claiming more than $1.1 million in tax refunds to which he was not entitled, said U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come and enjoy "Big Night for Salamanders" as part of the Read with a Ranger program. The program starts at 10:00 am on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 at the Parkway Visitor Center.Read with a Ranger is a new 45-minute program...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in prison for possessing a loaded revolver after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the results of another federal prosecution relating to a multi-state heroin trafficking ring. On Aug. 24, 2016, Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced DARYL WALKER, age 42, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve 5 years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Charlie Patterson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: The FBI is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who was found deceased in a wooded area in Porcupine, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The unidentified body was found on Aug. 20, 2016 wearing white tennis shoes (size 10), blue sweat pants, and a grey FGCU (Florida Gulf Coast University) T-shirt.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: Paul Collins, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), will describe the effects that conservation efforts on the Channel Islands have had on breeding bird populations, during the September From Shore to Sea Lecture.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office and its partners will create a new trail within the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office partnered with the Hickory Police Department to present the Law Enforcement Guiding Adolescent Lives (LEGAL) program in Hickory, N.C. LEGAL is a youth-oriented community outreach initiative designed to offer young people guidance on having positive interactions with members of the law enforcement community.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: As Canadian negotiators met with U.S. officials and U.S. industry representatives in an attempt to resolve longstanding differences between the United States and Canada regarding subsidies to Canadian lumber production, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, renewed his call for a real and lasting solution to this longstanding problem.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Ieshia Jones, 27, of Winooski was sentenced today to time served, followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Chief Judge Christina Reiss further ordered that Jones be subject to a curfew with location monitoring for a term of six months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Briant Benson, 59, of El Dorado Hills, pleaded guilty today to tax evasion, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert Lamar Gerald, 37, of Pensacola, was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison, after pleading guilty in April 2016 to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Assistant U.S. Attorney P.J. Meitl was named Prosecutor of the Year during the Texas Narcotic Officers Association (TNOA) 2016 Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, this week, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: On Monday, September 5, Traverse City native Rachel B will be sharing her special brand of “empowerment pop" with visitors at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). Rachel will be performing from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Platte River Campground Amphitheater, and the concert is free with a park pass.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 29-year-old John Michael Rymers was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was charged with a federal weapons violation for allegedly selling handguns and ammunition out of his home in the North Lawndale neighborhood.
