News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, the National Park Service is pleased to be partnering with the First Flight Society to celebrate the 113th anniversary of the first powered flight, the centennial of U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Aviation, and the centennial of the National Park Service. The anniversary event will take place at Wright Brothers National Memorial and entrance fees to the park will be waived for the day.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today voted against the 21st Century Cures Act because Republican leaders stripped bipartisan, bicameral child welfare legislation out of the final bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Ruben Uy Lim, age 53, of Parkville, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. In addition, Lim has admitted taking hundreds of videos of underage girls at...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: A Mexican national was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison for kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JEREMY DWAYNE LAVORCHEK, age 28, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 272 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $37,958.33 in restitution for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE SCHEDULE...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Throughout the month of December, weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will continue conducting a prescribed burn that includes approximately 20 acres along the Perea Nature Trail in the Rio Salado Riparian Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Chris Myers announced that another man accused of participating in a transnational organized crime advance fee "lottery scam" fraud, which bilked at least 80 mostly elderly U.S. residents out of millions of dollars, has been arrested in Jamaica.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sayreville, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import heroin from India into the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposed land exchange in Rio Blanco and Moffat counties that could consolidate public lands and increase public access.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Four Boston-area men appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, in connection with gun trafficking in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Employer Name: CPE Feeds Inc. CPE Feeds Inc. 2102 Lubbock Road. 2102 Lubbock Road. Brownfield, Texas. Brownfield, Texas. Citations issued: Nov. 28, 2016. Investigation Findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected CPE Feeds in June 2016 as part of...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DEC. 8, 2016 - People who live in rural areas are more likely to own their own homes, live in their state of birth and have served in the military than their urban counterparts, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes funding for the U.S. Department of Defense. The final bill also includes provisions from the DHS Accountability Act of 2016 that Senator Carper has co-sponsored and long fought to pass. The Senate approved the legislation by a vote of 92 to 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Former Controller of Holt of California Admits Embezzling $4.8 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Three individuals were sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday for their roles in an interstate vehicle theft ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 45-year-old man who resides in Conroe has been taken into custody following the return of an indictment alleging he stole more than $484,000 from his former employer, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $3 million in funding for three projects to speed the adoption of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies at facilities across the federal government. As the nation’s largest single user of energy, the federal government is leading by example and these projects will reduce carbon emissions, while strengthening America’s economic, energy, and environmental security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, AL - Robert Francis Kelly (55), of Minersville, Pennsylvania, pled guilty earlier today to a one count indictment for possessing more than five kilograms of cocaine with the intent to distribute, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: PORTERVILLE, Calif. - The Sequoia National Forest and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a public meeting/workshop Thursday, Jan. 19, from 9-11 a.m., at the Kern River Ranger District Office (105 Whitney Rd., Kernville) to obtain public input into the development of preliminary 2016/2017 grant-cycle applications to the State of California Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division (OHMVR).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Ava, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography.
