News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Thousand Oaks, Calif. - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2016 shows that 906,605 park visitors spent an estimated $39.4 million in the local community while visiting Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. That spending supported 557 jobs and contributed $54.3 million to our local economy.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking information regarding the process by which EPA closes out its grants.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement urging President Trump’s FDA Nominee, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, to provide answers to follow-up questions Senators submitted following his nomination hearing, held April 5th.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Charged with attempted murder of a federal employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David E. Haskell, age 28, of DeKalb, Texas, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Texarkana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: April 25, 2017 Event at Civic Plaza to Promote DEA’s 13th National Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, April 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: A Miami-Dade resident was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, after he shot a man in front of a convenience store in Miami Gardens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Nicholas Feminella, age 21, of Ithaca, New York, pled guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to one count of transportation of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to a 15-year fraud scheme to obtain $366,716 in federal financial aid through U.S. Department of Education programs, stealing $136,000 in federal grant funds from the National Science Foundation, and making a false statement to receive a United States passport.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mary B. McCord, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division of the Department of Justice (“NSD"), announced that FUYI SUN, a/k/a “Frank," a citizen of the People’s Republic of China...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Tom Wheeler, Acting Assistant Attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, announced today that four former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center (“JCDC")...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Bought and Sold Ivory from Whales, Elephants and Walruses in Violation of Federal Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Man Charged in Northeast Albuquerque Bank Robbery.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: DEWEY BEACH, Del. - This afternoon, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, finished his state-wide Climate Change tour by meeting with Center for the Inland Bays's Executive Director Chris Bason to discuss efforts to create living shorelines in order to protect vulnerable beach communities from rising seas.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: This summer the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra's 15th Anniversary Concert will premiere a new work titled "Denali World" that was composed by Alan Chan, who was a 2016 Artist-in-Residence at Denali National Park and Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Roger Wheaton Webb, 53, of Fairfax, was sentenced today to five years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Sonia Santaella Vieira, age 55, Adalberto Viera, age 60, Claudia Santaella Ferreira, age 53, Sidnei Ferreira, age 58, all of Myrtle Beach, SC, and Amanda Santaella Ferreira, age 27, of Miami, Florida, and Colby Musser...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 11,375,658 visitors to Mississippi’s National Park Service units in 2016 spent $390 million in local communities. That spending supported 5,580 jobs in the state and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $447 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with a scheme to defraud the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of tobacco excise taxes and submitting false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday requesting information about the status of the department’s Pandemic Influenza Plan.
