News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - The following is a summary of misdemeanor immigration prosecutions from July 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Full fire restrictions on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming’s Natrona, Converse, Platte and Goshen counties will begin July 28 due to dry conditions and high fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Former Spring Hill Police Officer Christopher Patrick Odom, 27, of Spring Hill, Tennessee, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury and charged with a criminal civil rights violation for engaging in unwanted sexual contact while on duty as a police officer, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of a new regulatory framework for tobacco products...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), released the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement of a new regulatory framework for tobacco products...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement this morning after the Senate rejected the so-called “skinny" Trumpcare amendment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Armed Robberies took place throughout Albemarle and Greene Counties.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the failure of the Senate Republican effort to jam Trumpcare through the Senate.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers used explosives to safely demolish the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s (PFP) 200-foot-tall ventilation stack on July 15, reducing a Hanford Site landmark to rubble.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Chairman of a Macau Real Estate Development Company Convicted on All Counts for Role in Scheme to Bribe United Nations Ambassadors to Build a Multi-Billion Dollar Conference Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - KAY ANN LOCKE, of Edmond, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and signing a false federal income tax return, in connection with a $454,000 embezzlement from Delta Promotions Team Corporation, a metro company, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: The underground transmission cable that was damaged at the south end of the Bonner Bridge yesterday morning is continuing to cause electric challenges and outages on Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: EM Update recently spoke with new Acting EM Assistant Secretary Jim Owendoff on his vision and priorities for the EM program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man who dealt drugs and possessed a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activity was sentenced today to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Kenneth Kennedy Shannon, 52 age, from Vance, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston by United States District Court Judge David Norton to life in prison without parole. Shannon was sentenced as a result of his conviction for his leadership as the source of supply in a conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled the annual public meeting to discuss the Ruedi Reservoir Water Operations for the 2017 water year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump announced today that he had named John Kelly the new White House Chief of Staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted 10 men for being in the United States illegally after previous deportation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Ray Parmer.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Houghton, MI - On Aug. 17, join Isle Royale National Park and the Portage Lake District Library to celebrate the coming end of summer with a family free day aboard the Ranger III. Families may participate in one, two, or all of the scheduled events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that a federal grand jury charged Dennell Harrison, 43, and Taron Walker, 32, both of Dover, Delaware, with stealing and conspiring to steal firearms from Capital Pawn, a federally licensed firearms dealer, and with being felons illegally in possession of firearms. The maximum penalties for these charges are ten years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, or both.
