News from February 2016
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - He took the right step, and was fired for it.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Location: Wright Brothers National Memorial. Partners: First Flight High School, Middle & Elementary School Choir, Elizabeth City Schools, First Flight Society. Description: In partnership with the First Flight Society, we will celebrate the 113th Anniversary of Flight, which occurred on December 17th...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Washington-A Filipino citizen and the captain of the tanker ship, T/V Green Sky, pleaded guilty today to one felony count in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard investigation into pollution crimes aboard the vessel.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will holding an open house on Thursday, March 10, at the park's Stearns Ranger Station from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. (ET) to update the public on proposed plans to address contaminated mine lands drainage in the park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Washington D.C.: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is one of 25 national parks selected to receive a 2016Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks. This grant will be used to encourage first-time visitors to "Find their Park" in their own backyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Law Enforcement Training, Impact of Crime in Small and Rural Communities and Heroin Overdose Epidemic among the Issues Discussed.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service is working with several partners to highlight Alaska's trapping history and heritage as part of the 2016 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous celebration. The program is also a kick-off event in the year-long series of activities during the Centennial of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Michael Calloway a/k/a Oso, 21, of Nashville, Tenn., was sentenced Friday to serve 15 years in prison, after previously pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition, conspiracy to tamper with a witness and attempting to obstruct justice, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Former Family Assistance Analyst Ordered to Pay $181,398.76 in Restitution to U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: A man who sold counterfeit merchandise at a “Clearance Sale" located on 16th Ave. S.W. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Defendants Held Victims at Gunpoint in Backyard of Residence in Northeast Washington.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Monday released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the steps the Department of Health and Human Services can take to monitor unaccompanied minors in the United States who illegally crossed the southern border.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE CARABASE, 41, of Enfield, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to two counts of tax evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Arcata Field Office is inviting public comments on a draft grant application to the state of California's Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division. The field office is requesting funds for law enforcement and ground operations at the Samoa Dunes Recreation Area. Funds would be used in fiscal year 2017 (Oct. 1, 2016 - Sept. 30, 2017).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: On Aug. 25, 2016, the National Park Service turns 100 years old. To celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s national parks, Cape Hatteras National Seashore (NS) has planned many exciting programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former owner of two daycare businesses in Parkville, Mo., and Platte City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to failing to pay $891,572 in payroll and other taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: On Aug. 25, 2016, the National Park Service turns 100 years old. To celebrate the 100th birthday of America’s national parks, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (NHS), has planned many exciting programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the conviction of a former systems administrator who hacked into the computer system of an industrial facility to disrupt and damage its operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Lisa M. McManaman, 47, of Providence, a former registered nurse in the intensive care unit of the Providence VA Medical Center, pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing prescription drugs from the VA Medical Center and to failing to disclose on her employment application with the VA that she was previously terminated from a similar position at another hospital in Rhode Island.
