News from August 2017
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Energy Department today released three wind market reports demonstrating continued growth in wind energy nationwide. America’s wind industry added more than 8,200 megawatts (MW) of capacity last year, representing 27 percent of all energy capacity additions in 2016. In 2016, wind...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Bruce E. Kenney, III, 61, of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 months incarceration on each of the two counts, to be served concurrently, for wire and tax fraud charges, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison for hostage taking two Honduran nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Arthur Vann, age 65, of Aiken, South Carolina, was sentenced to four years’ incarceration for participation in a Conspiracy to defraud investors, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs, of Columbia, also ordered Vann to pay over $3.2 million in restitution to fourteen victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 26-year-old resident of Laredo has entered a guilty plea to receiving child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Celeste P. Bermudez, 42, of Methuen, Massachusetts, today to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for theft of federal program funds, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. Gomez also ordered Bermudez...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the below statement following the D.C. District Court of Appeals 2-1 decision striking down an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that restricts the use of hydrofluorocarbons ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - All climbing routes on cliffs used by nesting Peregrine Falcons in Zion National Park have been re-opened. Closures were initiated March 1, 2017 in order to protect Peregrine Falcon nesting areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: A man who robbed a bank and led police on a high speed chase pled guilty on August 7, 2017, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: U.S. Army Officer Was Murdered Near Fort Meade on Aug. 24, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement on today’s Internet Day of Action.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement on today’s Internet Day of Action.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Energy Department today released three wind market reports demonstrating continued growth in wind energy nationwide. America’s wind industry added more than 8,200 megawatts (MW) of capacity last year, representing 27 percent of all energy capacity additions in 2016. In 2016, wind ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Harrisonburg, VIRGINIA - A former staffer with Harrisonburg Votes, a political organization affiliated with the Democratic party, who was paid to register area voters during the weeks leading up to the 2016 National Election, was sentenced today in federal court for causing 18 fraudulent Virginia Voter Registration Forms to be submitted to the local registrar’s office, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Mexican citizen pleaded guilty to reentering the United States illegally.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Shawn Penn, age 41, of Pasadena, Maryland, pled guilty today in federal court to making false claims and false statements. Penn falsely represented to her employer that she was working as a security guard at a government facility, when she was actually elsewhere.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On August 7, 2017, Mr. Dan Brouillette was sworn in as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today asked United States Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue several questions regarding USDA’s removal of the phrase ‘climate change" in the agency’s communications ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) checkpoint today.
