News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Philip Hooge announced today that the 13-knot vessel speed limit in lower Glacier Bay will be raised to 20 knots through the water due to a decrease in the number of humpback whales in the area. This change goes into effect beginning at 5AM Tuesday...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting a hearing examining the current regulatory framework for cosmetics. Under current law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has very limited authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: HARLAN, Ky - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Kentucky State Police Post 10 issue this public safety advisory.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $19 million contract on August 11 to American Hydro of York, Pennsylvania. The contract calls for replacing and updating equipment for pump generating units 5 and 6 at the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Rachel Lynn Howze, age 30, Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty today before United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner in Harrisburg, to obstructing an official federal proceeding while serving as a U.S. Probation Officer in Pittsburgh.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Sergey Silver, 41, resident of Wasilla, Alaska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 66 months in prison, to be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release, for possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Silver pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Anthony Darnell Boyd, Jr., a/k/a Tony Fortune, Tone Tone, Big Tony, Jermaine Jefferson, and Paul Dreber, age 37, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, with two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms. The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Force and Coercion to Prostitute Girls as Young as 13 Years Old.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Superintendent George Price has announced the selection of Dr. Nita Tallent as the Chief of Natural Resource Management and Science for Cape Cod National Seashore. Before her selection, Nita served as the program manager for the National Park Service (NPS) Mojave Desert Network Inventory &Monitoring...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Aug. 19, 2016, Jason A. Kiedrowski (age: 39) of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and pleaded guilty to a count of entering a financial institution with the intent to commit larceny in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Sylvia Price, a/k/a “Deez Nuts," age 50, of Suitland, Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy and to aggravated identity theft, in connection with her activities in the Simple City Criminal Organization (SCCO), a racketeering enterprise...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: President Obama will host the 2016 White House Tribal Nations Conference on Monday, Sept. 26, in Washington, D.C. The President’s final Tribal Nations Conference will continue to build on his Administration’s firm commitment to strengthening the government-to-government relationship with Indian Country and improving the lives of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting a hearing examining the current regulatory framework for cosmetics. Under current law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has very limited authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting a hearing examining the current regulatory framework for cosmetics. Under current law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has very limited authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Paul Spencer Ruble, 63, a doctor from Thomson, Georgia, pleaded guilty today in federal court before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to a charge of conspiracy to unlawfully dispense controlled substances and launder money.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Buffalo National River Invites Everyone to #FindYourPark.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 18, 1952 an astonishing maritime event began when a ferocious nor'easter split in half a 500-foot long oil tanker, the Pendleton, approximately one mile off the coast of Cape Cod. Massachusetts.Incredibly, just twenty miles away, a second oil tanker, the Fort Mercer, also split in half.On...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Executive Appointments. FBI Director James B. Comey has announced the following leadership appointments: Amy Hess Named Special Agent in Charge of Louisville Division. Ms. Hess most recently served as the executive assistant director of the Science and Technology Branch. Ms. Hess entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Two Marion men were sentenced to prison for selling a mixture of heroin and fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death last year, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2016
News Release: Three Marshalltown residents who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were convicted by a jury on Aug. 16, 2016, after a five-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
