News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah is issuing a second call for nominations for one open position on its Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC). The nominee will fill the vacated position with the term expiring June 22, 2018. The BLM will consider nominations until Oct. 3, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today moved forward on its collaborative effort to conserve Greater Sage-Grouse and its habitat by issuing Instruction Memorandums (IMs) that clarify how aspects of the BLM’s land use plans will be implemented. These seven IMs relate to oil and gas leasing and development, grazing, and the collection and use of land management data.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Joshua David Gibson, 32, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Gibson to 90 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release. Gibson pleaded guilty to the charge on June 28, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Receives Field Trip Grant from the National Park Foundation.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited York Metal Toll Processing Inc. for exposing employees to uncorrected electrical, crushing and respiratory hazards, as well as recurring amputation hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Flew from Seattle to Colorado to Sexually Molest 14-year-old Boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 44-year-old Nuevo Laredo, Mexico man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking related violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Joshua David Gibson, 32, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Gibson to 90 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release. Gibson pleaded guilty to the charge on June 28, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Health Canada, through the Regulatory Cooperation Council, have jointly developed a 2016-2017 Workplace Chemicals Work Plan. The purpose of the work plan is to ensure that current and future requirements for classifying and communicating the hazards of workplace chemicals will be acceptable in the United States and Canada without reducing worker safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man on federal supervised release was sentenced yesterday to more than 12 years in federal prison for possessing more than 35 grams of “ice" methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-It's not often that we get to step back in time, but this will happen throughout September in New River Gorge National River and in nearby parks. Many park guided activities highlight the area's rich cultural stories this month. Be it the American Indian living history demonstrations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Christopher Orozco-Amores, of Guatemala, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - The DEA announced the recent conviction of Luis Alfonso Felix-Hernandez, an already incarcerated subject who was found guilty of multiple federal charges after it was discovered he was continuing his drug trafficking operations from within prison walls. Information provided to federal agents...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels has selected Dean McKenzie as the new director of the agency's Directorate of Construction. McKenzie served as director of OSHA's Office of Construction Services from 2012-2013, then became the deputy director in 2013, and has been the acting director since January of this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka “Guccifer," 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who unlawfully accessed the private online accounts of at least 100 Americans and caused the public release of this information on the Internet, was sentenced today to a total of 52 months in prison for unauthorized...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man on federal supervised release was sentenced yesterday to more than 12 years in federal prison for possessing more than 35 grams of “ice" methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Release Date: Sept. 2, 2016. Contact: Kelly Carroll. Phone: 671-333-4050. War in the Pacific National Historical Park Launches Second Year of Every Kid in a Park. Receives Field Trip Grant from the National Park Foundation. War in the Pacific National Historical Park encourages all fourth graders...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that CARL D. WRIGHT, age 46, of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to one count of bank fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344, and to four...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lawrence W. Bell, Jr., 30, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to robbing two financial institutions two weeks apart in 2015 and brandishing a pistol during each robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Redwood National and State Parks encourages all fourth graders to visit the park this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The program gives fourth grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 public lands and waters nationwide for a year. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov...
