News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Arrest in UK of Suspect in Bomb Threat Delays Flights at Hartsfield (Threats Occurred in January 2015).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the third installment of the "Better Buildings Challenge SWAP," featuring two cities that have already faced off on the national stage this year-Atlanta and Boston. In this online video series, the cities swap energy management teams to gain new insights, save money and improve their buildings through greater energy efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Lynwood man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for pocketing bribes in exchange for allowing food service workers to bypass sanitation certification training and testing mandated by the state of Illinois and city of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Cheektowaga Man Sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A new National Park Service report shows that 2.78 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2016. That record visitation and spending supported 18,000 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Bill Day (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Winner, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact With a Child was sentenced on April 11, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that RICHARD DALE HENRY, age 63, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas this week charges Terry Lynn Anderson, 66, and Rocky Freeland Anderson, 36, of Dallas, with offenses related to their participation in an insurance fraud scheme, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a loaded handgun in a carry-on bag at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint this morning, April 20.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is pleased to debut a video series highlighting important scientific advances that occurred because of ARS research. This first YouTube video highlights ARS' role in large-scale commercial production of penicillin. While discovered in England, the ability to mass-produce penicillin occurred in the United States at an ARS lab in Peoria, Illinois.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD- Join us on Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 11:00 am at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park’s (C&O Canal) Great Falls Tavern as we celebrate Park Rx day with a Volunteer-in-Parks speaker series presentation by Susan Howard, a seasoned international public health professional...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dejuan Wingard, 22, of Chicago, pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property this morning. Judge Henry Autrey accepted his plea and set his sentencing for Aug. 1, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The historic Tumacácori Mission church will once again fill with the sound of music, brought to us by Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts’ premier community chorus. On Sunday, April 30 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., the Santa Cruz Singers, under the direction of Christina Wilhelm, will present a concert...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 2.78 million visitors to national parks in Alaska spent nearly $1.3 billion in the state in 2016. That record visitation and spending supported 18,000 jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended to June 12, 2017, the deadline for submitting nominations for the 2017 Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards. The prior deadline was April 28.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s March 2017 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge this week sentenced seven people from Jefferson, Walker, Marion, and Franklin counties for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine across northwest Alabama, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton, and Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Marco Antonio Ochoa, aka Alfredo Ochoa Valladares, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin and United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Jan. 30, 2017, in which Ochoa admitted he participated in the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana Clifford D. Johnson announced that Mark Nagel, 37, of Hammond, Indiana was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Rudy Lozano after pleading guilty to two counts of producing child pornography.
