News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: TEEN MALE DIES AT LAKE MOHAVE.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) is considering options for improving the Fall River Entrance Station, one of two major entrance stations on the east side of the park. The entrance station is located on US Highway 34, just inside the park boundary. The current station was constructed in the 1960s as part of National Park Service (NPS) Mission 66 enhancements and contributes to the Fall River Entrance Station Historic District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: VNS Choice Admits to Collecting Medicaid Payments for Hundreds of Beneficiaries Who It Failed to Timely Disenroll From Its Managed Long-Term Care Plan.
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing on draft legislation to reauthorize the State Department for fiscal year 2018. In 2016, Corker led congressional passage of the first State Department authorization ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement after the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced an initial set of negotiating objectives for the United States’ upcoming negotiations with Canada and Mexico regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Stephanie Knightly, 50, of South Paris, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to time served (about two months) for transferring a firearm to a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Keith Ford (40, Gainesville) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: With summer in full swing, our airports are bustling with travelers. Ask anyone at the airport and they will tell you: air travel is a hassle. Our aviation system is plagued with inefficiencies including indirect routes, seemingly endless delays, and time wasted on tarmacs. Modernizing our air traffic control system can improve this dramatically.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK - Two sub-adult black bears have been seen repeatedly in the Bartlett Cove Developed Area over the past 5 weeks. These bears have been seen at Glacier Bay Lodge trying to access the trash area, on the boardwalk, and under the buildings. Last week, a sub-adult bear entered an unoccupied...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director Randolph D. Alles regarding the Secret Service’s role in vetting Natalia Veselnitskaya, Rinat Akhmetshin, Rob Goldstone, and others who attended a June 9, 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: On Sunday July 16th, Mount Rainier National Park search and rescue crews responded to a report that a skier had fallen into a crevasse on the Emmons Glacier near 12,800 feet elevation. Upon descending into the crevasse, rangers located the skier who showed no signs of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Former Teacher Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Child Sex Tourism and Child Pornography Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment charging Aaron J. McDuffie, aka “G", 22, of Buffalo, NY, with possessing with intent to distribute and distributing quantities of heroin, fentanyl, butyryl fentanyl, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Keith Ford (40, Gainesville) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Roosevelt Jones, 52, of Selma, was sentenced today in federal court on charges involving his illegal possession of a firearm. Jones has three prior convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 50-year-old Fulshear woman has been sentenced to federal prison for her role as a leader and organizer in a scheme involving the billing of insurance companies for creams containing Ketamine without valid prescriptions, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury convicted Tamara Mitchell Nov. 9, 2016, following a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Sheldon Lamont Jackson (43, Jacksonville) to 15 years in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a loaded semi-automatic handgun in a carry-on bag at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint July 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Timothy Czeiner, age 30, of Wilmington, Delaware, pled guilty in federal court on July 10, 2017 to a four-Count Indictment charging him with gun and heroin offenses. Specifically, he pled guilty...
