News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cristopher Santiago Sanchez-Becerra, 32, of Stockton, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison in connection with his role in a conspiracy to stage car accidents in order to defraud insurance companies, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Thousand Oaks, CA - The National Park Service is launching a local effort to recruit volunteers to help out in and around the Santa Monica Mountains starting in 2017, officials announced on the eve of #givingtuesday, the global day of giving. Residents can volunteer in a number of ways, from becoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Three Mahoning County men face federal firearms charges, U.S Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Washington -The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) will hold a public meeting in Denver, Colo., April 19-21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A previously convicted Chelmsford man has been ordered to forfeit more than $6.7 million in connection with his June 2016 conviction for recruiting veterans as figurehead owners of a construction company in order to receive specialized government contracts.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: When the kilogram, the world’s basic unit of mass, gets a new definition in 2018, it will be based not on a physical artifact but a constant of nature. However, researchers will still need to “realize" the new definition, or translate it into a physical object, to make it possible to distribute the new...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Ketchum, ID - The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are announcing the availability of the proposed wilderness management plan for the Hemingway-Boulders and White Clouds Wilderness areas. A wilderness management plan guides the preservation, management, and use of wilderness to ensure it...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: JOHNSON CITY, TEXAS - Due to the continuing threat of inclement weather for Dec. 3, Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park will postpone “Christmas Through the Years in LBJ Country" until Saturday, December 10. Gather the family and come out to Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park to celebrate...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, released the following statements on the U.S. Department of Education’s final regulation on the accountability provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Washington - Pear producers in two states will vote from Feb. 15 through March 1, 2017, on whether to continue their Federal marketing order.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Luray, Virginia: The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the Virginia Association for Environmental Education (VAFE) recognized Shenandoah National Park as a Virginia Center for Environmental Education Excellence at the Virginia Environmental Education Conference, held in Williamsburg...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that a criminal Information has been filed in federal court in Pittsburgh charging Ryan Kyle with a hate crime based on the victim’s race. This is the first federal hate crime filed in Western Pennsylvania since the enactment of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Buffalo National River, Harrison, AR - Park Staff at Buffalo National River recently completed winterizing the park’s facilities. “With cold weather approaching, water systems and restrooms have been winterized to prevent freezing and broken pipes." said Superintendent Kevin Cheri. Water systems will resume operation in mid-March 2017, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that Michael A. Liberty, 56, of Windermere, Florida pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to illegally making political contributions in the names of others to a presidential candidate’s primary campaign committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kenneth Dale White, Jr., 31, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to obtain controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL COLON, also known as “Paul Kane," 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Making Illegal Campaign Contributions for the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Chocolate, favored beverage of priests across the Spanish empire, will be celebrated at the ruins of the mission church at Tumacácori National Historical Park between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 10th.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Anthony Odell Lee, 33, of Millry, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court this morning for his illegal possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a prior felony offense. In September of 2016, Lee pled guilty to the charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2016
News Release: Convicted on drug, firearm and money laundering charges.
