News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2016
News Release: Dinosaur, Colorado - Fire crews from Dinosaur National Monument and several other agencies are responding to a fire located north of the Yampa Bench Road, approximately two miles wet of Haystack Rock. This fire, called the Bench Fire, was spotted by the lookout in the Round Top Fire Tower after a storm...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2016
News Release: Join us on Sunday, August 7 at 6:00 p.m. to enjoy a musical performance by Calliope Brass on the porch of the historic Theodore Roosevelt home. An all-female brass quintet, Calliope Brass will be performing popular songs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries including works by Scott Joplin, John Philip Sousa, Irving Berlin, and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the attack in Munich...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 22, 2016, Robert W. Webster, 66, of Davenport, Iowa, after three days of trial, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to three counts of an Indictment charging one count of conspiracy to commit bribery involving governments receiving federal...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, CA - On Saturday, July 23, 2016, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' and Inyo County Sheriff's Office, in cooperation with other partners, continued searching in the vicinity of Mt. Whitney for missing hiker John Lee, a 68-year-old male from Mentone, CA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 22, 2016, Robert W. Webster, 66, of Davenport, Iowa, after three days of trial, pleaded guilty before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to three counts of an Indictment charging one count of conspiracy to commit bribery involving governments receiving federal...
By State Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the terrorist attack on a peaceful demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) issued the following statements after President Obama signed into law the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (S. 524), a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to fight the nation’s growing opioid epidemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY: Ever wonder what it would have been like to eat like the First Family? Well, here is your chance! Join us on Sunday, August 14th, 2016 to learn how the Roosevelt family prepared and ate their meals. Children can take part in a rare chance to walk around the Sagamore Hill kitchen and discover some old fashioned gadgets. Afterward, they can even whip up some true Roosevelt recipes!.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 23, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park Rangers responded to two major incidents today.At approximately 10:30 a.m. Teton Interagency Dispatch Center was notified that an individual fell in Valhalla Canyon and was believed to be seriously or fatally injured.Park rangers responded with a reconnaissance flight...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Our thanks go to the thousands of law enforcement and homeland security personnel who contributed to the security of the Republican National Convention, the Convention site, and the City of Cleveland this week. Today I visit Philadelphia to inspect the security for the Democratic National Convention that takes place next week.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Columbia, Missouri, July 22, 2016 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack urged all State Health Officers to use the resources and opportunities provided through their Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) agencies in their substance misuse prevention efforts. Vilsack made this announcement at a town hall in Missouri to discuss the opioid epidemic, which accounted for more than 28,000 deaths nationwide in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The owner of more than 30 Miami-area skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, a hospital administrator and a physician’s assistant were charged with conspiracy, obstruction, money laundering and health care fraud in connection with a $1 billion scheme involving numerous Miami-based health care ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: A Dallas-area tax return preparer continually and repeatedly prepared federal income tax returns that contained false or inflated deductions and credits, according to a 2015 lawsuit filed by the Justice Department. Now a federal court has permanently barred the defendants in that case from preparing federal tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: California-based medical device manufacturer Acclarent Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, has agreed to pay $18 million to resolve allegations that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs by marketing and distributing its ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Criminal charges were unsealed against multiple defendants relating to their participation in a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme, involving the takeover or compromise of cell phone customers’ accounts and the “cloning” of their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Three Palm Beach County, Florida, residents were charged with conspiring and attempting to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: Jury Found Defendant Guilty of Abusing his Authority by Retaliating Against a Civilian A former deputy with the Bullitt County, Kentucky, Sheriff’s Office was convicted today by a federal jury of two counts of willfully depriving a Bullitt County resident of his constitutional rights under color of law, ...
By Fed Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today issued a proposal detailing the method that will be used to adjust the thresholds for exempting certain consumer credit and lease transactions from the Truth in Lending Act and Consumer Leasing Act.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 22, 2016
News Release: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today issued a proposal detailing the method that will be used to make annual inflation adjustments to the threshold for exempting small loans from higher priced mortgage loan appraisal requirements.
