News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: -Program serves as a model for communities struggling to break cycle of drug trafficking, drug abuse and associated violence.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Halfmoon Farms LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in prairie soils that had little or no exposure to human or animal activity.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) is seeking public comment on an application to convey Federally-owned mineral interests of public lands in Escambia County, Florida. On Sept. 21, 2016 the BLM published a notice of realty action in the Federal Register.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: A Mexican national was charged with possessing more than six pounds of heroin and two pounds of cocaine, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury charged Sean Hill, age 26, of Baltimore, today to with 11 counts of commercial robbery committed over a three month period. The indictment was returned on Sept. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced Louisville’s selection as the fourth city in America to take part in a comprehensive law enforcement and prevention “360 Degree Strategy" to assist cities dealing with the heroin and prescription drug abuse epidemic. Timothy J. Plancon, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that Jamell Lamon Cureton, 24, and Malcolm Jarrel Hartley, 23, pleaded guilty to murder and related charges, for their respective roles in the 2014 double-murder of Douglas and Deborah London in Lake Wylie, S.C. Cureton also took responsibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Filipe Villar-Arias, of the Dominican Republic, has pleaded guilty to reentering the United States after having been deported previously.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order suspending the air carrier certificate of Western Air Express, based in Midland, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: One Defendant Also Pleads Guilty to A Third and Unrelated Murder.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives supporting the Global Development Lab Act (H.R. 3924), which unanimously passed the House...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Seventy years ago the U.S. made a commitment to its coal miners that this country would protect their health benefits and pensions. Today tens of thousands of mineworkers and their families, including a lot of widows, are in serious danger of losing that security.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Roberto Carlos Lopez, 30, of Mesa, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 84 months in prison, followed by a term of lifetime supervised release. Lopez had previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a California man who tried to pass through Kansas City on a Greyhound bus with more than five pounds of methamphetamine taped to his midsection was indicted by a federal grand jury today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Priority is to investigate and prosecute heroin dealers who face a mandatory 20 year minimum sentence for causing overdoses.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Vicksburg, MS. - Starting on Jan. 1, 2017, Vicksburg National Military Park will increase entrance fees for visitors in order to fund important maintenance and improvement projects within the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement after the Committee favorably reported out two pension related bills, the Miners Protection Act of 2016 and the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that THERESA A. FREEMAN, 65, of Atlantic City, N.J., pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud unemployment insurance programs in a “fictitious employer scheme.".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on the status of the federal government’s inconsistent and unsuccessful wolf management efforts in the United States. The panel, which included local and state witnesses, focused on red wolves in the Southeast, gray wolves in the Northwest and Western Great Lakes and Mexican wolves in the Southwest.
