News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) this week kicks off its annual Red Ribbon Campaign, the nation’s largest drug prevention effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darrel Salazar, 48, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to brandishing a firearm during an attempted armed bank robbery. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division and Chief Gorden E. Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is proposing supplementary rules for public lands at Cache Creek, located in Chaffee County, Colorado. These supplementary rules would regulate mineral collection within the Cache Creek parcel to reduce safety concerns and impacts to natural resources, and improve mineral collection recreation opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County drug dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christopher Priestley, 38, of Bloomingrose, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The YMCA of Reading & Berks County has entered into a settlement agreement with the United States to resolve an allegation that a YMCA facility located at 631 Washington Street in Reading, Pennsylvania, contains architectural barriers in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Defendant Broke Into Victim's Residence in Northwest Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Robert Duquette, 74, of Hudson, pleaded guilty today in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of Theft of Public Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Justice Department reached an agreement today with the University of New Mexico (UNM) to ensure that UNM responds swiftly and effectively to allegations of sexual harassment, including sexual assault, involving students. The agreement resolves the department’s findings of UNM’s non-compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen Livermont announced today that Pipestone National Monument has scheduled a prescribed burn during the period of Oct. 20, 2016 - Nov. 18, 2016. When appropriate wind, temperature, and humidity conditions exist between these dates, approximately 75 to 100 acres of the tall grass prairie will be burned. When the above conditions are forecasted for a specific date additional information will be provided to park neighbors and the media.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - The U.S. Justice Department filed a proposed consent decree today to resolve allegations that Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by using inaccessible classroom and other technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, in cooperation with Colorado Parks and Wildlife invite you to share your views about Browns Canyon National Monument at several upcoming listening sessions. The two-hour listening sessions are designed to increase understanding of how people interact with the monument, what is meaningful about it and the role it plays in the way people live, work and play.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX. The project will be managed by a team led by the Gas Technology Institute (GTI), Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), and General Electric Global Research (GE-GR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Ten Year Prison Sentence; Defendant also Required to Forfeit $70,000 In Drug Proceeds and Five Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: On Oct. 13, 2016, Undray Webb, 27, and Durand Harper, 27, both of Cahokia, Illinois, received federal prison terms for armed robbery, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former guard at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth was sentenced to two years on probation Monday for taking bribes, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. In addition, he was ordered to serve six months home confinement and pay $4,800 in fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, 41-year-old Samuel Velasco Gurrola faces mandatory life in federal prison after a jury convicted him this afternoon of his role in a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: Vice President Joe Biden this afternoon issued the administration’s plan for how the cancer moonshot will launch into orbit. Among the action items included in the report are recommendations offered by the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon Panel last month.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a pitch-to-pilot event at its Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico. This unique event was designed to identify and fund innovative water treatment technologies for enhancing existing freshwater supplies in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Sharon man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with illegally selling tobacco products and laundering the proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General David Hunt expressing concerns with the apparent erosion of the Inspector General’s independence by FCC action.
