News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 25-year-old Lancaster, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for violent crimes in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Britt Featherston today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture cancellations of optional origin sales of 136,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Derek Fields, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging TONEY KELSEY, also known as “Blaze," 25, of Hartford, with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and three counts of sex trafficking of minors.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, ID. - On Saturday, Feb. 25, University of Idaho 4-H Club members from the Treasure Valley area will select wild horse weanlings (aged 6 - 11 months) to train for the next several weeks in preparation for a trail challenge on April 1 at 10 a.m. at the Boise BLM Wild Horse Corrals. Following the trail challenge, these horses will be showcased and offered for adoption during the Idaho Horse Expo on April 21 - 23, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Energy Department’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected seven projects to receive $5.9 million to focus on novel ways to use carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from coal-fired power plants. In addition to federal funding, each project will also include non-federal cost share of at least 20 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Derek Fields, 30, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General Phyllis Fong to gather information about a severe staffing shortage in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), exacerbated by the Trump Administration's federal hiring freeze.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Committee members Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Kurt Schrader (D-OR), and Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) sent a letter to the Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Robert L. Capers, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York announced today the arrests of nine defendants for their role in an international steroid distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 21, 2017, James Flippen Lewis, 28, of Laveen, Ariz., and a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 84 months in prison, followed by a term of three years of supervised release. Lewis had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Fitzsimmons, 54, of Whiting, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to social security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mario Talavera, 34, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 78 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on marijuana trafficking charges. Until his arrest in this case, Talavera, a U.S. citizen, resided in Juarez, Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CALIF.-Death Valley National Park will be hosting MarsFest 2017 from March 10 through 12. MarsFest explores and celebrates the extremes of Earth and space with a weekend of field trips, an expo, children’s programming, and a lecture series. Scientists from NASA’s Ames Research Center, Jet...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that STEVE COLLINS TURNER, SR., age 73, of Port Sulphur, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to mail fraud in connection with a false claim of $300,000 related to the BP Oil Spill.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: A New Job for the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Clarence William Bertram, 24, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court today to 24 months incarceration for crack cocaine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch (ISB) is offering $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for a theft of ammunition at Crater Lake National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
