News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Bureau of Reclamation advises the public to take precautions due to rapidly changing ice conditions at all reservoirs in North Dakota and South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two men were sentenced to federal prison today for drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Antoine Garfield Rushin, 44, of Detroit, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute heroin. In a separate prosecution, Bobby James Mitchell, 35, of Huntington, was sentenced to three years and a month for distribution of heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in mind. To start, DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), and mRNA is translated into proteins, which are essential for almost all biological functions. A central principle regarding translation has long...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Court Awards Government Over $12 Million in damages and Imposes Additional $10 Million in Civil Penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Yazzie-Tso, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 42 months in prison for his conviction on federal assault charges. Yazzie-Tso will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: TWIN FALLS, ID -- Through a partnership agreement between Pheasants Forever and the Twin Falls District Bureau of Land Management, 75,000 sagebrush seedlings were planted on 3,400 acres within the Shoshone Field Office, Craters of the Moon National Monument last fall. Of those seedlings, 36,000 were...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Justice Reyes admits to selling a sem-automatic rifle to an ATF agent while serving court imposed home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary B. McCord announced today that a Columbia, Mo., man has been charged in federal court for his role in making preparations to launch a terrorist attack with persons he believed were members of ISIS, but who were actually undercover law enforcement agents.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today announced a of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Man Wearing Walmart Vest Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tracy Whiting, age 24, of Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion to serve seven years in prison for the armed robbery of the Econo Lodge in Scranton on Feb. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a violation of federal firearms law, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Court Awards Government Over $12 Million in damages and Imposes Additional $10 Million in Civil Penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: PAROWAN, Utah - In celebration of Iron County’s legacy as a reservoir of the treasured Old Spanish Trail history, a ceremony marking the installation of the last of 85 new signs along 80 miles of the Old Spanish Trail is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Parowan Library, 16 S. Main Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL-The FBI Tallahassee office has received reports of efforts by scammers to target residents across north Florida through unsolicited telephone calls in which the caller claims to be a representative of a government agency including the FBI Jacksonville Division.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: UPDATE: Up to $5,000 offered for information leading to arrest and conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Detroit, MI - House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote today to Defense Secretary James Mattis outlining her continued concerns that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency remains without a permanent director following the departure of the previous director in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darrel Salazar, 48, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to seven years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for brandishing a firearm during an attempted armed bank robbery. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Chief Gorden E. Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD).
