News from September 2016
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: The Senate and House conferees will have a meeting regarding S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. The purpose of this meeting is to hear opening statements from the conferees. No bill text or amendments will be considered at this meeting of the conferees.
By State Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, September 8 to examine the National Security Council’s increasing role in foreign policy and its lack of oversight. The hearing, entitled “Reforming the National Security Council: Efficiency and Accountability, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting a conference next week that will bring together first responders and experts who will provide their insights on last year’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino and important lessons learned that can be applied to other large-scale incidents.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA -On the shores of Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park, the August 25th grand opening of Xunaa Shuká Hít was a powerful day filled with the brilliant sights and sounds of joyous hearts celebrating the Huna Káawu's return to homeland.Hand-carved dugout canoes, spectacular regalia, Tlingit oratory, traditional ceremonies, rhythms of drums and dances, and an air of excitement made it a day to remember!.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who is handling the case, stated that federal law enforcement agents first encountered Ray related to his role in a mail fraud scheme involving stolen United States Treasury checks. In that case, Ray cashed more than 120 forged checks worth more than $400,000...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Air Force has applied to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to continue to use the site of its Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) and to expand it by about 300,000 acres of additional public land. As a result of the withdrawal application, the BLM has segregated approximately 300,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Three Flint residents pleaded guilty to tampering with a witness by physical force to prevent the witness from testifying in a federal criminal case, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Robert Brunk, 25, of Richmond, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. United States District Judge Steven J. McAuliffe sentenced Brunk to 120 months’ incarceration followed by supervised release for life.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: With a hurricane and tropical storms hitting both the East Coast and Hawaii this week, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, today urged the Senate to pass the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters, or the SANDy Act when it reconvenes next week.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Lake Chelan National Recreation Area may implement as many as three prescribed fires in the Stehekin Valley during the fall of 2016. Depending on conditions these may begin as early as September 7.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: With a hurricane and tropical storms hitting both the East Coast and Hawaii this week, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, today urged the Senate to pass the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters, or the SANDy Act when it reconvenes next week.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today announced public input opportunities for six regional reviews that will analyze the existing energy corridors designated for oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution facilities on Western Federal lands under BLM or U.S. Forest Service management.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Delvin Macarthy, aka “Brian Macarthy," 37, of Alexandria, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Macarthy was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $734,458 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Terrance Williams, a/k/a “TA," pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni to his involvement in a racketeering conspiracy for which he participated in an attempted...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Aug. 29, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: With a hurricane and tropical storms hitting both the East Coast and Hawaii this week, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, today urged the Senate to pass the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters, or the SANDy Act when it reconvenes next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Cary L. Wright, age 38, and Tanya A. Wright, age 29, both of Greenville, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Greenville, to a conspiracy to commit mail theft, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: Due to potential impacts from Tropical Storm Hermine, visitor services and facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial, will be temporarily suspended. Starting on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, the following are in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: The victim had given birth just two weeks before her death.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 2, 2016
News Release: (FORT WORTH, - Texas - Following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, late yesterday a federal jury convicted seven defendants, including members and associates of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated...
