News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -. The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a modification to the Friant-Kern Canal. that would connect a new turnout to the city of Fresno’s Surface Water Treatment Facility, in northeastern Fresno. The Final EA/FONSI...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Ezra L. Ealy, 21, a convicted felon, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for possessing a sawed off shotgun and ammunition while on the streets of Fort Pierce by U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra, sitting in Fort Pierce.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is accepting applications from sorghum associations and farm organizations interested in nominating sorghum producers to the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board. Applications are due by March 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today the creation of a Civil Rights Unit whose primary focus will be the civil enforcement of federal civil rights laws in Massachusetts. The new unit, which will operate within the office’s Civil Division, will also collaborate with local community members, advocacy groups and other federal and state agencies in the area of civil rights.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park is partnering with the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE), Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge (CMOR) and the Southern Appalachian Girl Scout Council to celebrate National Girl Scout Day on Saturday, March 12. The opening ceremony will begin at AMSE at...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Garberville, Calif. - North coast residents and visitors will have the chance to get a close look at live raptors and learn more about them in a Birds of Prey presentation Saturday, March 12, at 3 p.m., at the Redwood Playhouse, 286 Sprowel Creek Rd., in Garberville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gregory Owens, 59, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was found guilty today by a jury in U.S. District Court of interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in connection with a home invasion shooting in Saco, Maine on Dec. 18, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: On Sunday, February 28 at 2:00 p.m. Washita Battlefield National Historic Site invites students, parents, and the community to the Artifacts Share Stories presentation. This presentation focuses on artifacts that will be on temporary exhibit at the park.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS, KAN. - An Overland Park man pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding investors in his businesses, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Federal Monitor Finds Seattle Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Efforts in Initial Compliance with Consent Decree Requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Swedish has asked approximately 3,000 patients to be tested for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C Out of an Abundance of Caution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant is one of eight convicted as part of significant drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS, KAN. - A Topeka man Tuesday pleaded guilty to a federal charge of using a gun to commit a robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Christopher Coombs, 44, of Westbrook, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to five years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute alpha-PHP (a bath salt) and obstruction of justice...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 16, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon today announced a proposed rule designed to provide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants increased access to healthy foods by requiring stores that accept SNAP to stock a wider array of food choices.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Musicians will be competing for a record $3,350 at this year's Tallgrass Prairie Fiddle Festival. Music fans will be able to listen to and watch musicians;fiddlers and acoustic bands, as they compete at this year's music festival, held at Homestead National Monument of America near Beatrice, Nebraska, Saturday, May 28, 2016.The money will be spread over four categories;The Legends Division for the previous winners, Senior and Junior Divisions and the Acoustic Band Category.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Opportunities to live and work on the banks of two scenic Northern California rivers are being offered by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MATTHEW DRAGONE, 31, of Middletown, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of bank robbery and admitted that he robbed or attempted to rob a total of seven Connecticut banks last summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ronald McMillian, of Washington, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of trafficking in heroin and fentanyl, which resulted in serious bodily injury, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
