News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, in partnership with Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, California Department of Water Resources, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife is preparing to place salmonid spawning gravel in the Sacramento River, immediately below the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District Diversion Dam and Market Street Bridge, in Redding.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Syria cease-fire agreement...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today praised the formation of a multi-agency action plan to comprehensively examine the safety of crumb rubber used in artificial turf fields and playgrounds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Obama unilaterally designated three new national monuments in the California desert: Sand to Snow National Monument, Mojave Trails National Monument, and Castle Mountains National Monument. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement in response to the plan unveiled in Munich for a “cessation of hostilities" in Syria...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -In a partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and Google, Grand Teton National Park's David T. Vernon Collection of American Indian artifacts will be featured in the Google Cultural Institute, a digital platform which makes hundreds of culturally significant objects in the National...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with the welfare of unaccompanied children entering the southern United States, Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell. In light of reports...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan Bucklew has sentenced James Dale Little (43, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to serve a life term of supervision and to register as a sex offender upon his release. A federal jury found him guilty on Oct. 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: DNA Later Tied Him to the Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: A former Internal Revenue Service Revenue Agent was convicted today in U.S. District Court in Seattle of two felony counts related to receipt of a bribe, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. PAUL G. HURLEY, 43, of Seattle, was convicted following a two day trial. The jury deliberated for three days in reaching its verdict. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour scheduled sentencing for May 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MIGUEL DIAZ, also known as “Smooth," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - An Arlington, Texas, businessman has been sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence following his guilty plea in August 2015 to a federal felony tax offense, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Chief District Court Judge Wilma A. Lewis on Feb. 11, 2016, sentenced Craig Muller, 31, to 5 years in federal prison for a possession of a firearm in a school zone, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Additionally, the court imposed a sentence of life in prison without...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2016
News Release: As per the agreement reached with all signatories in the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP), bison capture operations are scheduled to begin February 15 at Stephens Creek near the north boundary of Yellowstone National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: When it comes to early diagnosis of Lyme disease, the insidious tick-borne illness that afflicts about 300,000 Americans annually, finding the proverbial needle in the haystack might be a far easier challenge-until now, perhaps. An experimental method developed by federal and university researchers appears capable of detecting the stealthy culprit Lyme bacteria at the earliest time of infection, when currently available tests are often still negative.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: "Operation Syndicate" nets 9 federal convictions for poaching and other crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, Miguel Esperanza-Vazquez, 60, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Nielsen, 44, of Las Vegas, Nevada, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Melissa Torres, 29, and Sally Evans, 28, both of Stockton, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. for their involvement in the distribution of methamphetamine and firearms from a residence in Stockton, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources released a Majority staff detailing information uncovered during the Committee’s ongoing investigation of the EPA’s Gold King Mine blowout near Silverton, Colorado in August 2015.
