News from August 2017
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: On Friday morning, Aug. 25, park rangers were notified by a ranger on a backcountry patrol that a 54 year old male hiker (hometown unknown) had suffered a leg injury above Black Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Additional rangers were sent to assist. Team members, in addition to five bystanders, helped move the man to a nearby alpine meadow where the man was flown at 3:45 p.m. by St. Anthony Flight for Life to Boulder Community Hospital.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: TOPAZ, Calif. - Fire crews are responding to the Slinkard Fire, located in the Slinkard Valley, west of Topaz and south of Hwy 89 in Mono County, California. This appears to be a lightning-caused fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Sanjay Gupta, 51, of Fords, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday for illegally hiring twelve unauthorized aliens to work at his company, Doon Technologies located in Iselin, New Jersey. U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal robbery laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Captain with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office was arrested and charged today in connection with helping Carlos Rafael, the owner of one of the largest commercial fishing businesses in the U.S., smuggle the profits of his illegal overfishing scheme to Portugal.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke woman, who repeatedly abused a 5-year-old child in her custody, pleaded guilty this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke to a number of charges related to child sexual exploitation and child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted today by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced two hearings as part of the committee’s continuing “Powering America " series. The series provides committee members the opportunity to explore the challenges of electricity markets and to consider reforms related to electricity generation, distribution, consumption, and grid resiliency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Justin D. Green, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI), Miami Field Office; Mark Selby, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - In three separate federal indictments unsealed on Tuesday Aug. 29, 2017, 16 U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employees working in locations across the metro-Atlanta area have been charged with accepting bribes to deliver packages of kilogram-quantities of cocaine in a wide-reaching sting operation.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the agency to go further in evaluating whether credit monitoring services used by private and public entities in response to data breaches provide effective consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Dane Mitchell, 25, of Boston, Massachusetts, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA Oversight: Unimplemented Inspector General and GAO Recommendations."
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA Oversight: Unimplemented Inspector General and GAO Recommendations."
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today raising serious concerns over the lack of transparency at the Agency. The letter was signed by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
Release: BOISE, Idaho - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm in the carry-on baggage of a passenger departing Boise Airport (BOI) Wednesday morning.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA Oversight: Unimplemented Inspector General and GAO Recommendations."
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS-In addition to the 417 National Park Service units, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial being one ofthose, the National Park Service is also proud to support communities across the country through 54 communityassistance programs. Recently, the Directory of NPS Community Assistance Programs was released.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced two hearings as part of the committee’s continuing “Powering America " series. The series provides committee members the opportunity to explore the challenges of electricity markets and to consider reforms related to electricity generation, distribution, consumption, and grid resiliency.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the agency to go further in evaluating whether credit monitoring services used by private and public entities in response to data breaches provide effective consumer...
