News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Dilshod Khusanov with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and al-Nusrah Front, both designated foreign terrorist organizations. The defendant, arrested...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore Acting Superintendent Steve Mietz stated that, beginning today and going through Monday evening, September 4, an extreme fire danger alert within the Seashore is in effect. The alert is in effect due to potential high fire danger from extremely high temperatures, humidity in the single digits, and offshore winds.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, August 31 - Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today announced that on September 14 the Senate’s health committee will meet to hear testimony from health care stakeholders representing doctors, hospitals, insurers, patients, and insurance commissioners.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at the Hanford Site recently installed a new cover for a wastewater storage basin as long as a football field and nearly twice as wide.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the selection of two projects to receive $2 million total in Agricultural Water Conservation and Efficiency grants for fiscal year 2017. Combined with local cost-share contributions, the projects are expected to implement about $14 million in agricultural water management improvement projects during the next 24 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the conviction of KEVIN JAMES PETROSKE, 36, of Hibbing, Minnesota, for producing, attempting to produce and possessing images and videos containing child pornography. Following a three-day trial before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, the jury found PETROSKE guilty on all counts. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Red Scaffold, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, and Assault Resulting in Substantial Bodily Injury to an Intimate Partner.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alessandra P. Serano (619) 546-8104 or Joseph Orabona (619) 546-7951.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: The Conduct Occurred During Camping Trips to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park Arranged by the Defendant.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 75 parcels, totaling approximately 94,000 acres in Duchesne, Uintah and Emery counties at its December quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Dana J. Boente, 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 | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - David McShan, 39, of Steubenville, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 74 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for his role in running a Steubenville-area heroin-trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964, Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714, Helen Hong (619) 546-6990, Billy Joe McLain (619) 546-6762.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area may implement all of the pile burns, and up to 3 of the following controlled burns during the fall of 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Drunk drivers make Labor Day weekend one of the most dangerous driving weekends of the year, so the U.S. Park Police (USPP) and the National Park Service (NPS) plan to increase patrols on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway over the long weekend.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette each visited the Hanford Site recently to view cleanup progress and meet with workers, elected and Tribal leaders, and other stakeholders.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will convene a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, to discuss the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The hearing, “The Children’s Health Insurance Program: the Path Forward" will take place at 10 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: Camp Verde and Clarkdale, AZ - Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will hold two public meetings in September to discuss a proposed fee increase to their park specific annual pass. The current park pass has been in place since 2015, but does not meet agency fee standards. The proposed fee...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Geovane Jose Ferreira, 34, a Brazilian national, was charged today in federal court in Boston with one count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien.
