News from October 2016
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2017 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists, researchers, and policymakers from 32 eligible countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Grow Discovered by Cameras Monitoring Mountain Lions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Maryland Man Indicted With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: 10th FBI-Wide Operation Cross Country Recovers Five Juvenile Victims in Washington State.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Arches and Canyonlands national parks are expecting record visitation during the fall recess of Utah public schools, October 20 - 23, associated with the annual Utah Educators Association (UEA) Convention and Education Exposition. Officials are advising visitors to expect heavy traffic, crowded trails, and limited parking.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Cummings Releases Backgrounder on Latest Republican Allegations about Secretary Clinton’s Emails
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Brookline man was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of conspiracy and securities fraud after tipping off two friends in connection with an insider trading scheme that netted more than $1 million in illegal profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Edmond Deslatte, 46, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., pleaded guilty Friday to making a false statement to a federal agent in connection with an investigation into his disability benefits payments, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Nevada Department of Corrections - Silver State Industries hosted a saddle-trained horse adoption event on October 15 at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) south of Carson City, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to six years in federal for robbing two Wichita gas stations, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Houston James David Green, 24, of Chunchula, Alabama, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison this morning. Green had entered a guilty plea to two charges, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: DENVER - David Michael Ansberry, age 64, originally from California, was arrested over the weekend in Chicago, Illinois, in connection with the placing of an improvised explosive device in a shopping area in Nederland, Colorado, the FBI, Boulder County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), the Nederland Police Department, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to six years in federal for robbing two Wichita gas stations, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to two bank robberies.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: [Boise] The Idaho Sage-Grouse Action Team has been named the winner of the Public Lands Foundation’s Landscape Stewardship Award for 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In abiding to a recent court order that vacated the Obama Administration’s withdrawal of a proposed rule to list the North American wolverine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has reopened public comment on a proposed threatened listing.House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury found Lamar Ivory (25, Jacksonville), also known as “Thug Life," guilty of possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Oct. 13, 2016, a Burlington jury convicted Michael J. Foreste, aka “Beast," of Valley Stream, New York of 10 charges related to his oxycodone trafficking in Vermont over a six-year period. Specifically, the jury convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Casey County, Kentucky felon recently pleaded guilty in United States District Court before District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to multiple charges including being an armed career criminal, possession and distribution of a controlled substance, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: New York, NY - The Statue of Liberty National Monument is asking the public to comment on a proposal to construct a secondary security screening facility on Liberty Island to replace the existing security screening tent. The new building(s) would house security screening operations for visitors with...
