News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Late last night, Rocky Mountain National Park staff were notified that a group of ten people were requesting assistance on Kiener's Route on Longs Peak. The group consists of a variety of military personnel affiliated with Fort Carson. This group was involved in a climbing training. A few members reported...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to find their park during a special event celebrating the National Park Service Centennial. Visitors are encouraged to learn about Civil War signaling, participate in hikes with park rangers, and learn about the history associated with Signal Point. These programs take place atop Signal Mountain on Saturday, June 18 between 9 am and 4 pm in Signal Point.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Fred Keys 53 of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to RICO conspiracy and also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. Keys faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $10,250,000 in fines.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is celebrating the 100th birthday of the National Park Service (NPS) with a series special summer events. There will be free concerts, “star parties" with astronomers, a Research Rendezvous lecture series, a naturalization ceremony, and more.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: The FAA today posted an advisory circular (AC) on oil and gas extraction on airport property. The AC does not create new requirements, but describes how existing statutory and regulatory requirements apply to proposed oil and gas extraction on or beneath airport property at federally-obligated airports.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: The U. S. and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have announced the intention to establish an international consortium to promote the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment today charging DERRICK WHITE, also known as “Fly," 51, of Hamden, MALCOLM HAYNES, also known as “Black," 25, of New Haven, and HOWARD BOOKERT, 18, of Hamden, with one count of armed robbery of a postal employee. The indictment also charges WHITE and HAYNES with one count of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of DAVID HOBSON, who served as an investment adviser in the Providence...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for May 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - A south Puget Sound area resident who tried to hide his illegal drug dealing behind what he falsely claimed was a ‘medical marijuana dispensary’ operating consistent with state law, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release for two federal charges related to drug distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Southern District of Mississippi along with two DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys, a DOJ Civil Rights Division Paralegal, and two FBI agents were among 160 recipients recognized by Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 32nd annual Director’s Awards Ceremony held in Washington D.C. on June 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Gangster Disciples Fugitive Arrested by FBI Denver Fugitive Agents.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites. The two projects were competitively selected from the five Brine Extraction Storage Test (BEST) projects awarded in September 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On June 2, 2016, Ali Suarez, 21, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 60 months in prison, following Suarez’s guilty plea on March 2, 2016, to a felon in possession of a firearm charge announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Suarez was ordered to serve three years of supervised release after his prison term and to pay $100 to the Crime Victim’s Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DAVID GLENN MOORE, JR., age 49, of Catoosa, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea yesterday to an Information filed on May 26, 2016 charging MOORE with WIRE FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: Nine members of conspiracy convicted of terrorism charges in largest multi-defendant ISIL-related case in United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, CALIFORNIA-DNC Parks & Resorts at Sequoia, Inc., has been selected to receive a new 10-year concessions contract to operate overnight accommodations, food and beverage, and other services at Sequoia National Park (Wuksachi, Lodgepole and Bearpaw areas). The new...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment Thursday against Vivian Wang, 53, of Lilburn, Georgia, and Frank Luo, 48, of Las Vegas, Nevada, charging them both with wire fraud and charging Wang with aggravated identity theft, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The defendants were arrested today at their residences in Georgia and Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2016
News Release: MISSOULA - Rachel Leanna Ross, 25, of Collierville Tennessee, and Lauren J. Hoskins, 26, of Somerville, Tennessee, were arraigned in federal court yesterday on a six-count superseding indictment charging them with various drug distribution crimes.
