News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Fire officials at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park are seeking witnesses to a fire Tuesday afternoon that burned about ¼ acre of native koa and ‘ōhi‘a forest behind a cabin at Nāmakanipaio Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announced that in federal court yesterday, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MICHAEL L. MILES and ROSLYN WYNN of Henderson, North Carolina for possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Drug Organization Sold Narcotics in Washington, D.C. Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Two California Men Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in Fake Law Firms that Promised to Help Struggling Homeowners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A grand jury today returned a superseding indictment that charges Matthew J. Higgins-Vogt, 24, of Decatur, Ill., in the April 3, 2015, armed robbery of the Circle K convenience store and the April 5, 2015, murder of Paige Mars, also of Decatur.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Jury Also Convicts Two on Conspiracy Charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 23 (Rep. David Valadao, R-CA), the “Gaining Responsibility on Water Act" or “GROW Act." The bill addresses underlying federal policy, regulatory and administrative failures that have contributed to the mismanagement of water supplies across the West.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Evansville - United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today that Kevin Kyle McCaffrey, 22, Hickman, Kentucky, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young for two counts of mailing threatening communications and one count of conveying false and misleading...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A lawsuit was settled today involving an electrical cable beneath Boston Harbor that runs across two shipping channels that the government alleged was not placed at the required depth when it was installed in 1990. The settlement will allow the Boston Harbor Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project to continue and ensure that modifications will come at no cost to the United States or Massport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Eric Scott, age 40, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in federal court in Greenville today. The Court also imposed a money judgment against Scott in the amount of approximately $ 1,300,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dereke Lamar Collins Carroll, 27, of Daphne, was sentenced today in federal court on charges involving his illegal possession of marijuana and ammunition. The federal indictment alleged that Carroll was previously...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, by voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Las Cruces, N.M. - On July 17, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District will conduct a public scoping meeting to gather input on an environmental assessment (EA) on right-of-way (ROW) applications submitted by El Paso Electric (EPE). The meeting will be held at the Farm and Ranch...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Communications and Technology (CAT) Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter today to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and CAT Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urging them to follow through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that AARON SHEEHAN, age 30, of New Orleans, and TYLER CONNER, age 27, of Dallas, each pled guilty today to conspiracy to traffic methamphetamine in New Orleans. SHEEHAN pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. CONNER pled guilty to conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Monday is the year anniversary of the mass murder in Baton Rouge of three of our law enforcement heroes and the wounding of three others, one critically. We should all take this somber occasion to remember and celebrate the fallen and wounded officers and to give some comfort - however small it may be - to their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - After three weeks of trial, a jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville convicted three individuals for conspiring to distribute controlled substance analogues and controlled substances from 2011 to 2015, including...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Examining Medical Product Manufacturer Communications:"
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the executive order extending the review period for lifting sanctions on Sudan by three months...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ A former laboratory technician at a medical clinic in Mission and an account representative for a toxicology testing company have been indicted in connection with a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
