News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The first community snowshoe hike of 2018 will be at the meadows area of South Fork State Park, 6:00p.m., Saturday, January 6.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: We will not publish EM Update newsletters on Tuesday, Dec. 26 and Tuesday, Jan. 2. We will return to our regular publishing schedule on Tuesday, Jan. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 18, 2017, Marvin Benally, 47, of Leupp, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 264 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release and sex offender conditions. Benally had previously pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact of a child.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers recently demolished a sanitary sewage treatment facility, moving the DOE’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) closer to completing major cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) by 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Texas man was sentenced last week to 240 months in prison for conspiring to transport methamphetamine and cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement today in response to House Republican’s release of an emergency funding package that does not including Medicaid funding relief for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Berlin, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of making a threat against the Vice President of the United States, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Kirk Patrick Keshler, 60, of Garland, Texas, appeared today in federal court in Dallas and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, to one count of transportation of child pornography. The announcement was made today by Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement today in response to House Republican’s release of an emergency funding package that does not including Medicaid funding relief for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - On or about January 8, 2018, weather dependent, Beach Drive will reopen to all use between Park Road/Tilden Street NW and Broad Branch Road/Blagden Avenue NW. Segment 3 of the Beach Drive reconstruction, which closed on Aug. 28, 2017, will remain closed to vehicles, bikes and pedestrians from north of the Blagden Avenue bridge to Joyce Road NW until fall 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Well-Known Mountain Lion Was Exposed to Multiple Poisons.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of the Ways and Means Committee today introduced several bills to deliver immediate, targeted relief from Obamacare taxes that will be in effect in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jose Luis Vaca, age 32, of Claremore, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $3,000.00 fine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Harrold, South Dakota, man charged with Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty and was sentenced on Dec. 18, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Open Internet Preservation Act, introduced today by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa - On Dec. 19, 2017, David Marken Aikoriegie and Myles Jordan Maricle Pena, both of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer on charges related to a series of gun store burglaries in the Des Moines area, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 54-year-old David Thayer Girard, formerly of San Antonio, to 15 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former broker of two New York investment banking firms today admitted accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribe payments in exchange for more favorable stock allocations, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to robbing a branch of the RTN Federal Credit Union in Brookline and a branch of the Mansfield Bank in West Bridgewater in November 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the Open Internet Preservation Act, introduced today by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
