News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Stephanie Finley stated that: “The Western District of Louisiana remembers all of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of our country. It has been 15 years since the terror attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and the tragic...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: At approximately 10:45 am on Sept. 10, 2016, Richard Cavalieri, 67, of Niantic, Connecticut, suffered a 15-foot fall while hiking down the Precipice Trail in Acadia National Park. At 11:45 am, the first park rangers and Mount Desert Island Search and Rescue team members arrived at the scene, which was located about one-quarter mile from the top of Champlain Mountain.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On September 8, 2016, Timothy Ryan Zollman, 31, of Van Wert, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 120 years in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for committing two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2016
News Release: At approximately 2 pm on Sept. 10, 2016, park rangers and the Bar Harbor Fire Department responded to a report of smoke coming from the rear of a motor coach traveling up Cadillac Summit Road. The driver of the motor coach, operated by Stagecoach Tours and Charters, stopped in the road about a half-mile...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez paid tribute to Officer Clint Corvinus of the Alamogordo Police Department this morning during the Officer’s public memorial service at the Tays Event Center of the New Mexico State University in Alamogordo, N.M. The U.S. Attorney delivered the following remarks.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: Release Date: September 9, 2016. Contacts: Jody Mays, jody_mays@nps.gov, 229-924-0343, ext. 115. NR16-06. National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Annual Convocation, USS Pueblo Ceremony, and Avenue of Flags to honor POWs and MIAs. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action (POW/MIA)...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -Flight 93 National Memorial will honor the 40 passengers and crew of Flight 93 on the 15th anniversary of September 11 with two days of special programs, culminating in the annual service of remembrance on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: In those first few moments of his life, I knew something was wrong. I only had a moment to touch him before he was whisked away to the NICU. After a year and a half, we finally had a diagnosis. A RASopathy called Noonan Syndrome. No treatment. No cure.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: In those first few moments of his life, I knew something was wrong. I only had a moment to touch him before he was whisked away to the NICU. After a year and a half, we finally had a diagnosis. A RASopathy called Noonan Syndrome. No treatment. No cure.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: In those first few moments of his life, I knew something was wrong. I only had a moment to touch him before he was whisked away to the NICU. After a year and a half, we finally had a diagnosis. A RASopathy called Noonan Syndrome. No treatment. No cure.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called for the details of the Syria ceasefire agreement to be made available to the United States Senate. Yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the U.S. and Russia have reached a ceasefire agreement in war-torn Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: FBI Arrests Serial Bank Robber. The FBI announces the arrest of Jose Tamayo, 50, of Miami, Florida, for his alleged involvement in three bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery. The bank robberies include: * Aug. 13, 2016, TD Bank at 9005 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami Shores;. * September 4, 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Eyob Tilahun, 30, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for defrauding the United States Treasury. Tilahun’s conviction and sentence arise from his operation of a fraudulent tax return preparation business known as Tax King, LLC.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement of an agreement between the United States and Russia to reduce violence in Syria and jointly target violent extremists there...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: On September 7, 2016, Natasha C. Mann, 29, of Carterville, was sentenced for her role in a federal drug conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement regarding the U.S.-Russia deal for a ceasefire in Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: A Cranston, Rhode Island, resident pleaded guilty yesterday to aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, wire fraud, theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha for the District of Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” vehicles, the Justice Department announced today. Liang’s plea agreement provides that he will cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Interior and the state of Ohio announced today that Rutgers Organics Corporation (Rutgers) has agreed to complete the cleanup of the Nease Chemical Superfund Site (site) near Salem, Ohio, estimated to cost $18.75 ...
