News from January 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Field Office (RSFO) will hold a public open house on the Sweetwater Solar Energy Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport man pleaded guilty to calling a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and threating to shoot those there.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Statement by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on the Departure of Joyce White Vance from the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: An Indictment[1] was returned today charging Ansu Sanoe, 26, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with 2 counts of bank fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DELRONE MOORE, age 39, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to two counts of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A 19-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy on Fort Riley, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The defendant also was ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution for funeral expenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Park After Dark programs featuring ranger guided boat tours on scenic Biscayne Bay and a concert by singer/songwriter Grant Livingston take place from January 21 until April 15, 2017, at Biscayne National Park. Each family friendly program includes free s'mores and campfire. Telescopes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: An elected Trustee of New Haven, Michigan was charged today in a criminal complaint with demanding and taking a bribe in exchange for his official acts in connection with a municipal contract, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced. In addition, a former Trustee of New Haven was charged in a criminal information with accepting multiple bribes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Middletown, Virginia: National Park Service (NPS) Acting Northeast Regional Director, Rose Fennell, has named Jennifer Flynn as the new Superintendent of Shenandoah National Park and Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park in Virginia. Flynn, who has been the Deputy Superintendent of Shenandoah since 2009, succeeds Jim Northup, who retired on January 2 after a 36-year career with the NPS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Haughton man was sentenced last week to 151 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Zaid Bader Jacob, 47, of West Sacramento, is scheduled to be arraigned today after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging him with receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: “I thank the Gentleman. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport man pleaded guilty to calling a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and threating to shoot those there.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rafael Burgos, Alvin Torres, Jr., and Angel Pierluissi were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford for their roles in a Dunkirk, New York area cocaine conspiracy. Burgos, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexico, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner and the director of a Kansas City, Mo., day care center were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to file false attendance reports in order to fraudulently receive as much as $556,000 in federal benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a federal jury found a South Carolina man guilty last week of producing child pornography and traveling to Louisiana to have sex with a juvenile.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: In El Paso, 34-year-old Francisco Javier Pulido was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for the death of a Horizon City, TX, resident in September 2009 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr....
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $91,000 civil penalty against Amazon.com, Inc., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Bottom row from left to right: John Hopkins (NuScale chairman and CEO); Mary Jane Ross-Lee (USNRC NRR deputy director of engineering), Tom Bergman (NuScale VP regulatory affairs), Dale Atkinson (NuScale COO/CNO), Vonna Ordaz (NRC acting director of NRO), Mike Johnson (USNRC DEDO), Frank Akstulewicz (USNRC...
