News from August 2016
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 14 research and development projects to advance energy systems that will enable cost-competitive, fossil fuel-based power generation with near-zero emissions. The new projects, which span 11 states, will accelerate the scale-up...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 23, of Starkville, Mississippi, was sentenced today to serve 96 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah-Indian Creek Corridor campground fees will increases at Bureau of Land Management (BLM) developed sites starting on Sept. 1, 2016. Fee increases will be phased in following the approval of the 2015 Final Business Plan for BLM Monticello Field Office campgrounds. The Utah Recreation Resource Advisory Council approved the fees on Sept. 10, 2015 and the BLM approved them in December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Joe Manuel Gonzalez (66, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to structuring financial transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana residents - emergency workers, employers and the public - recovering from the impact of the recent floods should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio, 52-year-old former Houston police officer Juan Carrillo and his 43-year-old wife Rosa Lidia Carrillo of Cypress, TX, were sentenced to 15 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for transporting undocumented aliens announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden and U.S. Border Patrol Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: It's the centennial year for the National Park Service and the agency invites people of all ages to discover the national parks in their community through volunteerism. Volunteers who contribute 201.6 hours of service between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016 can earn a Centennial Volunteer Challenge Coin. Will you accept this volunteer challenge?
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Alyssa Timbana, 19, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Timbana was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Jan. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Man with Spiderweb Tattoo on Ear Robs Northeast Albuquerque Bank.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017 student design competition, which challenges collegiate teams to design, build and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and attractive, will take place October 5 - 15, 2017, in Denver, Colorado, Energy Department and Denver officials announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: A Lake Powell houseboater died while attempting to rescue her two-year old son, who had fallen overboard, on August 23. The cause of death is presumed to be drowning, but is pending coroner's confirmation. This is the sixth fatality in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Criminal Set Fire to a Food Market, After Looting a Liquor Store and Assaulting the Owner; Caught Because Police and Prosecutors Took the Time to Review Surveillance Footage.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. -. The Bureau of Reclamation will release additional water from Trinity Reservoir for the lower Klamath River to help protect returning adult fall run Chinook. salmon from a disease outbreak and mortality. Supplemental flows from Lewiston Dam will commence on August 25 and extend into...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Since the Great Depression, both the Tennessee Valley Authority and the US Army Corps of Engineers (COE) were interested in damming the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River for hydropower. Specifically, the COE proposed building a dam at the Devil's Jump rapid in McCreary County, Kentucky, which would have created the tallest dam in the eastern United States with an impoundment covering almost 40,000 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: A Stark County man was indicted on charges that he knowingly transferred false identification documents, such as counterfeit Social Security cards and counterfeit state identification cards, knowing that said items were produced without lawful authority, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of operating a chop shop trafficking in stolen auto parts, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: On September 17th, 2016, rangers will be conducting a monarch butterfly survey at Montezuma Well and they need your help! From 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., rangers will lead volunteers through the process of catching, tagging and releasing migrating monarch butterflies as they head south to Mexico for the winter.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office (YAO), in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, is announcing an upcoming research project involving low-level helicopter flights in the Yuma area. The helicopter will be towing a large hexagonal frame over the Yuma agricultural production...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury issued a four-count indictment charging Justin Roman, 26, of California, with trafficking multiple kilograms of cocaine into the Cleveland area, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia - A jury yesterday convicted Dr. Frederick Douglas Burton, 68 of Conshohocken of two counts of mail fraud and attempted mail fraud for lying to help a friend apply for social security disability benefits.
