News from April 2017
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 101,600 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for his part in robbing a local bank, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Steve Butler, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, announces the successful resolution of complaints made by a person with disabilities who could not access a local restaurant. The United States Attorney’s Office recently entered into a settlement agreement with the owner and operator of Old 27 Grill in Fairhope.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder today announced an extensive effort to disrupt and dismantle the Kelihos botnet - a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers under the control of a cybercriminal that was used to facilitate malicious activities including harvesting login credentials, distributing hundreds of millions of spam e-mails, and installing ransomware and other malicious software.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Cresson, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of conspiring to commit money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 4, 2017, a federal grand jury returned an eight-count superseding indictment against seven individuals involved in distributing Oxycodone. The original indictment named Lance Bruette (age: 34) of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Andrew Barnett, 36, and Summer Provencio, 36, both of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to conspiring to create and pass counterfeit U.S. currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that late on Friday (April 7, 2017), a federal jury found Brad Smith, age 33, of Franklin, New Hampshire, guilty of six counts of producing child pornography after a three-day trial.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Fatalities among workers in the landscaping industry are a growing concern in the Southeast. From 2012 to 2016, 64 people employed in the industry in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi died as a result of workplace injuries. In Florida, industry fatalities have nearly tripled since 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Garden Grove man who convinced a 13-year-old girl he met online to send him explicit videos - and then traveled to Canada to have sex with the victim - was ordered this afternoon to serve 87 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Celebrate National Park Week at Cabrillo National Monument.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) today announced receipt of its first shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste since WIPP reopened in January. The shipment from Idaho is an important milestone for WIPP and for DOE host communities that have had to store TRU waste since WIPP suspended operations in February 2014 when a truck fire and unrelated radiological event temporarily closed the facility.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: ALTUS, Oklahoma -- The Bureau of Reclamation awarded an $8,906,175 contract to Meridian Contracting, Inc. on September 9, 2016 for the W.C. Austin Project (Project), Safety of Dams Modification.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - It’s time to get outside! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) - Pocatello Field Office (PFO) will open the Chinese Peak - Blackrock Trail System on Saturday, April 15 to motorized and mechanized travel (bicycling). The trail system is closed to protect wintering deer from Nov. 16 through April 14. Travel is limited to designated routes only and all unsigned routes are closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alexander Jordan Miller, 21, of Elk Grove, was arrested on Friday, charged with production of child pornography and possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Miller is scheduled to be arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Little Sahara Recreation Area (LSRA) would like to inform the public that the water supply at the LSRA campgrounds was turned on Thursday, April 6, 2017, just in time for those who are planning on visiting LSRA during the Easter weekend. Due...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Gulfport, Mississippi tax return preparer pleaded guilty today to obstructing the internal revenue laws and aiding in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain for the Southern District of Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Bruceton Mills, West Virginia woman has been convicted of embezzling $87,529 from West Virginia University, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 7, 2017, NATHANIEL SMITH, 30, of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by 15 years of supervised release, for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2017
News Release: California Twice Convicted Felon Sentenced to Prison for Operating Fake Law Firms That Promised to Help Struggling Homeowners.
