News from July 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bill to protect federal employee whistleblowers from retaliation - a bill that won unanimous bipartisan support from Democrats and Republicans on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee - was blocked Thursday by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Roman Olvera, 29, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for distribution of controlled substances and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK - Visitors to the popular public use cabins in the White Mountains National Recreation Area will be able to view cabin availability and make reservations online starting July 20, 2016, when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) switches its reservation system to the federal government’s reservation and payment website Recreation.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Three members of a Grant County methamphetamine trafficking ring, including the ringleader, pled guilty late yesterday afternoon to methamphetamine trafficking charges. The three were part of a group of 12 defendants who were indicted in April 2015, as the result of an investigation that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - On July 12, 2016, Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III sentenced convicted drug dealer Marvin Rocedreck Brown, 42, of Union, Mississippi, to 240 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $1,500 fine for conspiracy to launder drug proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: I want to thank the Majority Whip - Steve Scalise - for joining us today to accept this Interim Update as prepared by the Select Investigative Panel.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, this week introduced identical bills in both chambers of Congress to facilitate a life-saving road for the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska. Without the road, local residents continue to be at the mercy of high winds, dense fog, and strong storms that prevent safe and timely transportation during medical emergencies.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - A new coyote has been added to the National Park Service's study of L.A.'s urban coyotes. Coyote 149, or C-149, is an adult female residing near the L.A. River in Northeast L.A. She is estimated to be three years old and was lactating, meaning she recently reared pups.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Defendants Conspired to Bring Drugs into SW Virginia from China, Florida, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the July 2016 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other law enforcement authorities this morning arrested six people charged in three federal indictments that allege illegal firearms sales and drug distribution.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn and Majority Members of the Select Investigative Panel today released their Interim Update to the House of Representatives at a press conference with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has advanced four bills that will modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Throughout the last year, the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) has conducted the Disrupter Series to discover how federal policies both help and hinder the growth of emerging technologies and the jobs they create.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn and Majority Members of the Select Investigative Panel today released their Interim Update to the House of Representatives at a press conference with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Ruben Cruz, 26, originally of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III, to 180 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assault with intent to commit murder and the use of a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal lawsuit filed today seeks nearly $25 million in damages from the owner of a Mountain Center residence and the property’s caretakers for alleged negligence that led to the 2013 Mountain Fire, which burned for more than two weeks and scorched over 27,500 acres, more than half of which was in the San Bernardino National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeffrey Turns, 32, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty before the Honorable John E. Jones, III to committing two bank robberies and federal firearms violations.
