News from March 2016
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Contacts Name:ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-0937. National Park Service Announces. Park Advisory Commission Meeting to be Held March 17th. Middletown, VA.-Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park announces the next meeting of the Park Advisory Commission will be held on Thursday, March 17, 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Dorian Garcia (31, Naples) to six years and six months in federal prison for wire fraud. As part of his sentence, Garcia will forfeit pieces of artwork that were purchased with proceeds of the fraud, along with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Callers Claiming to be a Deputy U.S. Marshal Threaten with Federal Arrest Warrant.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Yosemite Child Care Center/Yosemite National Park Child Care Center (YCCC/YNPCC) is a non-profit organization inside the park that was run from about 1997-2009 by then-director Charity Brocchini. When allegations were made of financial impropriety at its two child care centers, the NPS Investigative Services Branch and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General launched a multi-year investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Harvey Blake, age 57, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg, for passing $17,400 in counterfeit $100 bills in four central Pennsylvania counties between October 2014 and March 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Bowie, AZ - Fort Bowie National Historic Site is seeking to fill two visitor service volunteer positions. The first term is April 3 to June 30, 2016, and the second term spans June 26 to Sept. 30, 2016. Candidates should complete the application form found on www.volunteer.gov. Enter Fort Bowie in the keywords search box.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: As the number of employees who telework trends upward-and new kinds of devices are used in telework-the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is updating its guidance to include the latest technology available to strengthen an organization's remote-access data security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A 55-year-old resident of Farmington, New Hampshire, Susan Durrance, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for a mail fraud offense that involved the theft of more than $396,000 from her former employer and three counts of filing false tax returns for failing to report the embezzled funds on her federal tax returns, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: During the next few weeks, National Park Service fire crews will be conducting a series of prescribed fires within Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The prescribed fires, as defined in the approved Fire Management Plan, will all be located within the boundaries of the park. Fires will occur on the Tennessee side of the park.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led nearly 100 Democrats on a letter sent to the House Appropriations Committee, requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, S.D. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) arrived Saturday, March 12 to investigate the fire scene at Top Lot Processors, located at 702 North Industrial Ave., Arlington, S.D. 57212.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture changes in destination of 100,000 tons of hard red spring wheat from unknown destinations to China for delivery during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on March 11, 2016, Nicole Lynn Zabel, 41, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine between January of 2010 and April of 2015. Zabel will serve five years on supervised release following the prison term.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Contact: Office of Communications (202)720-4623. Agreement is expected to further increase beef exports to Peru, which topped $25 million in 2015. LIMA, Peru, March 14, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced today that the U.S. government has reached...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will monitor the primary elections in Chicago and surrounding suburbs on March 15, 2016, Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a jury has found a Mississippi man guilty of two drug trafficking crimes based on his efforts to distribute methamphetamine and crack cocaine in late 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: DANVILLE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the guilty plea of a Henry County man to a federal firearms charge.
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement today after House passage of two bipartisan measures, H. Con. Res. 75 and H. Con. Res. 121, addressing genocide and war crimes in the Middle East...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Allen Prout, 44, of Providence, was sentenced on Friday to 13 years in federal prison on firearms and robbery conspiracy charges relating to his June 2014 plan to rob a drug dealer and on a robbery conspiracy charge relating to his involvement in an armed robbery in September 2012.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy's Better Buildings Home Upgrade Program and Home Energy Information Accelerators work with partners across the nation and are making important progress in lowering the costs of energy upgrade programs, while improving overall program effectiveness and enhancing access to information on home energy performance for consumers. These efforts help homeowners save money, while creating local jobs and improving the environment.
