News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BAKER, NV - The National Park Service has approved fee changes for cave tours and campgrounds within Great Basin National Park. The fee change will take place on Jan. 1, 2018. A public comment period was held in 2016, where most comments came back in support of the proposed fee changes. The fees at Great Basin National Park have not changed in over five years. Attached is a table showing the old fees and the new fee changes that will be implemented in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Tonya Leshun Hall, 43, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for lying in federal court, following her guilty plea to a criminal contempt charge, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney presided over the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Nevada quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 33,483.72 acres of the 388,697 acres offered.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Williamstown, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for receiving images and videos of child sexual abuse and for producing child pornography using a hidden camera in his bathroom, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Preston Anthony King, 23, of Burleson, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 12 years in federal prison and 20 years of supervised release. The sentence follows King’s guilty plea in August 2017 to one count of enticement of a minor, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man convicted of three counts of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on December 4, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announces that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on Dec. 11, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- Chief Judge Gregory K. Frizzell will administer the ceremonial oath of office to United States Attorney R. Trent Shores on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, at 2:00 p.m.
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: .S. government officials for many years that they would bring to justice the perpetrators of this crime and the crime of burning our embassy in 2008. They both also made these promises to me.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Conviction Arises Out of Attempt to Purchase Six Kilograms Of Cocaine from Undercover HSI Agents for $150,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Multi-jurisdictional Investigation Dismantles Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Tank 17 closure - the second waste vessel closed at the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Colorado Home Healthcare Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that seven Springfield, Mo., residents are among 11 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute at least a kilogram of heroin in Greene County, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric Hargan and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma urging the Trump Administration to extend open enrollment for the individual insurance market from December 15 until Jan. 31, 2018 to give consumers more time to purchase health insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Was Extradited from Israel to Face Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Brandon Gray, 22, of New Hampton, New Hampshire, was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 70 months in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography and cyberstalking, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley of the District of New Hampshire announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Community leaders, stakeholders and thought leaders across the country are praising Republican efforts to overhaul the tax code. From benefiting middle-class workers, to helping women in business get ahead, take a look at what they’re saying...
