News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Join the National Park Service and partners on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, for a day of special events celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Eric Campbell, age 36, formerly of Lewis County, was sentenced today to 72 months imprisonment for possessing methamphetamine and for possessing pseudoephedrine knowing it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt of the New York Division and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: MOAB, UT - The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees four days in 2018 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the inclusion of a partisan Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reauthorization bill in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to be considered next week...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) recently renewed their alliance to continue promoting safe and healthful working conditions for female construction workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman convicted of Criminal Contempt was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After years of challenging the rule, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement of a proposed rule that would withdraw a controversial regulation that would have revised organic livestock and poultry production standards.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Today the Bureau of Land Management issued two coal lease modifications totaling 1,721 acres at the West Elk Mine, located in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forest in Gunnison County, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), sent a letter to the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Affairs Director Sarah Flores to demand clarity after she made inconsistent statements regarding the release of text messages between two FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to the press.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: A Chardon man was charged with filing false tax returns after embezzling nearly $161,000 from estates he managed, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981, Benjamin Katz (619) 546-9714 or Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9604.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: A Toledo woman was indicted for obstructing an investigation into the sex trafficking of minors, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man formerly employed by Kentucky Country Day of Louisville as a physical education teacher and assistant coach with the school’s athletics department was sentenced this week, in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to 72 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release, for violating child exploitation laws, announced United States Russell M. Coleman.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the inclusion of a partisan Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) reauthorization bill in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to be considered next week...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Former Florida State Health Care Administration Official Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison for Accepting Bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two Randolph residents were convicted yesterday by a federal jury of distributing thousands of pounds of marijuana and laundering the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Filed Tax Returns for Seven Years Reporting $0 in Business Income.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Where: Kīlauea Visitor Center Auditorium. Kīlauea Star Party. Join Astronomer Dean Regas, co-host of PBS Star Gazers, as he hosts Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park’s first-ever Star Party at Kīlauea Overlook. Learn about an endangered resource and sacred cultural connection: our dark night skies. Journey...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alessandra P. Serano (619) 546-8104 or Connie V. Wu (619) 546-8592.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: FARGO - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer announced that on Dec. 15, 2017, following a four-day trial, a federal jury convicted Kevin Lee Olson, age 56, Fargo, ND of Threatening Interstate Communications by knowingly transmitting an e-mail, for the purpose of issuing a threat to injure another person, and with knowledge that the communication would be viewed by another person as a threat.
