News from September 2016
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading House advocates for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, today issued a statement on progress to advance the landmark legislation that would accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new cures and treatments.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service's Calumet Visitor Center has new days and hours of operation for the fall and winter. The visitor center will be open from October 1 -31 Wednesday-Saturday 9:00-5:00 and Sunday 12:00-5:00. Nov. 1, 2016 -April 30, 2017, the Calumet Visitor Center will be open Friday and Saturday from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The visitor center will be open extended hours during special event weekends in the winter.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region announces that Donald Bader has been selected as the Area Manager for the Northern California Area Office (NCAO) at Shasta Dam.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mosher, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2016, by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division announced that Moshe Mirilashvili, a Board-certified, state-licensed doctor, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for distributing heroin and illegally possessing a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee favorably reported nominees Dr. Christopher Brummer and Brian Quintenz to serve as Commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The nominees may now be considered by the full U.S. Senate for final confirmation.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading House advocates for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, today issued a statement on progress to advance the landmark legislation that would accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of new cures and treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: UTICA, N.Y. - -Ryan Canfield, 40, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced today to serve 12 years in prison, to be followed by six years of post-imprisonment supervised release, for conspiring to distribute the controlled substance methylone.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016 (H.R. 5303), comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to address the needs of America’s harbors, locks, dams, flood protection, and other water resources infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sent to prison four members of one of Birmingham’s largest cocaine- and heroin-trafficking rings, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: MIDDLETOWN, Virginia -The National Park Service has been celebrating its 100th anniversary this year by urging Americans to “find their park." The Jim and Cheri Maitland family of Rives Junction, Michigan recently made the 500 mile, 8-hour trip to ‘find’ Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 27-year old resident of McAllen has entered a guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2016 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released details of the $26.8 million in Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program grants announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today at the New York Times Food for Tomorrow...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Moab, Utah--The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Moab Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) analyzing a proposed ROW application for Grand County to construct and operate a water load-out facility adjacent to State Route 279 on the north side of the Colorado River.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe this morning stating his opposition to the proposed removal of Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) absent meaningful safeguards to guarantee the future of the population. You can read the letter at.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Once again we express our appreciation and enormous respect for the successful security effort by the United States Secret Service and the New York Police Department at last week’s United Nations General Assembly.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Coast Guard’s and Department of Justice’s Enforcement Action Addresses March 2014 Oil Spill from Kirby Oil Barge Involved in Collision with Cargo Ship Kirby Inland Marine L.P. has agreed to pay $4.9 million in Clean Water Act civil penalties and to implement fleet-wide operational improvements to settle ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: An associate of the Vice Lords street gang pleaded guilty today to witness tampering for obtaining and disclosing private health information of Vice Lords shooting victims and victims’ family members to a member of the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The owner and manager of a New Jersey feedstock collector and processor pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction for his role in a scheme that generated over $6 million in fraudulent tax credits and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) renewable fuels credits (RIN credits) connected to the purported production of biodiesel fuel.
