News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Defendants accused of ordering materials, manufacturing and distributing "Spice".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently announced that it is seeking public nominations for open positions on 34 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), including six in Oregon and two in Washington State, which advise the BLM on public land issues. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominations for the National Honey Board.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Sign Up Now for the 2016 River Ranger Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: South Dakota Man Sentenced to 40 Years for Producing and Distributing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on March 21, 2016, Timothy Howell, 49, Mountrail County, ND, was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 12 years and 7 months in prison for Possession of Materials Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors. Judge Hovland also ordered Howell to serve a lifetime of supervised release, pay $500 in restitution, and also pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that, on March 16, 2016, two Kodiak brothers were indicted separately by a federal grand jury, for federal firearm and drug trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A drug supplier for the Grape Street Crips street gang was sentenced today to 176 months in prison for his role in distributing large quantities of crack-cocaine in and around Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tricia Renee Thames, 36, a Wheeling, West Virginia native currently residing in Swedesboro, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for unlawful possession of firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Verona, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years imprisonment, followed by 25 years supervised release, on his conviction of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Victim Was Six Years Old. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Brok Chase, 29, of Ft. Drum, New York pled guilty today to all four (4) counts of a criminal information alleging he made images of a six year old victim engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. The defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Alex White, 31, of Mobile, was sentenced today on charges involving drug distribution and using a gun during and in relation to his drug trafficking activities. White pled guilty to the charges in October of 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering a free public webinar that will address the feasibility of a flexible platform that is needed when designing the framework for the next generation Energy Management System (EMS) and analytics. The base for such a platform has...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: Full-Day Event Celebrates the NPS Centennial and the 1895 Schooner C.A. Thayer.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2016
News Release: The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering a free public webinar that will present a new robust optimization model for transmission planning. This model considers the addition of new renewable generation, and the retirement of existing generation capacity as sources...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2016
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell today joined with hundreds of community members and local leaders to dedicate the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which was designated by President Obama on July 10, 2015, to protect nearly 331,000 acres of public...
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) released the following statement as the two continue work to respond to Iranian aggression with new sanctions on its ballistic missiles program and a measure to reauthorize the existing Iran Sanctions Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2016
News Release: Charges Against Liverpool, NY Man and Syracuse, NY Woman Involve 16 Month Old Infant.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announcement of proposed regulations to update safety requirements for natural gas transmission pipelines...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announcement of proposed regulations to update safety requirements for natural gas transmission pipelines...
