News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Following a successful concert in honor of the National Park Service centennial in 2016, Cape Cod National Seashore is pleased to welcome back the Cape Symphony for a free outdoor concert at 6:30 pm on Friday, August 25 at the recently renovated outdoor amphitheater at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas woman who worked as a laboratory technician at a local pediatric medical practice was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for unlawfully obtaining the personal identifying information of a patient’s parent and using it to apply for personal credit cards, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada. United States District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey also sentenced her to one year of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the below statement after Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas announced that they will halt construction on two nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer power plant in Columbia, South Carolina and seek to pull out of the 9-year, multi-billion dollar project.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PHILLIP STEWART, 46, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in Queens, N.Y., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 14 months of imprisonment for distributing ecstasy.

By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross welcomed the announcement from the Government of Ukraine that Ukrainian state-owned power generation company Centrenergo PJSC will purchase American thermal coal ahead of the upcoming winter season.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement following the announcement that the 2028 Olympic Games will be coming to Los Angeles, California.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Julis Denson (Orlando, 30), Marquis Denson (Orlando, 31), Capree Patterson (Orlando, 26), Alvin Kendrick (Orlando, 42), and Isaac Tolbert (Orlando, 38) have pleaded guilty to robbery and brandishing a firearm in relation...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross welcomed the announcement from the Government of Ukraine that Ukrainian state-owned power generation company Centrenergo PJSC will purchase American thermal coal ahead of the upcoming winter season.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Mexican man has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for his role in importing cocaine and methamphetamine into the United States, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Darries Leon Jackson, a.k.a.“Darryl Jackson," 58, of Morristown, Tennessee, was sentenced on July 31, 2017, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve life in federal prison for his conviction of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. There is no parole in the federal system.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement following the announcement that the 2028 Olympic Games will be coming to Los Angeles, California.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Learn about mail order brides and an American Indian perspective on the settlement of the West at the California Trail Interpretive Center. The Trail Center is presenting a variety of programs throughout August. The following programs are free and open to everyone:.

By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 150,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement following the announcement that the 2028 Olympic Games will be coming to Los Angeles, California.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Melissa Elliott Of Binghamton Convicted On 14 Counts.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will host the annual Feast Day celebration at Pecos Pueblo this Sunday, August 6th. Parishioners from St. Anthony’s will process to the entrance of Pecos National Historical Park where they will be met by representatives from the Pueblo of Jemez. Many local...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) along with the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment donated the breast meat from 116 resident Canada geese to D.C. Central Kitchen last week. The meat will be used in the healthy meals D.C. Central Kitchen prepares daily for multiple nonprofit partners, including homeless shelters, rehabilitation clinics and afterschool programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A two-count criminal complaint was filed against Matthew Paul Gumz, 39, of Barstow, charging him with taking a California condor in violation of both the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. Gumz made his initial appearance Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer L. Thurston and pleaded not guilty to both charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $185.8 million in airport infrastructure grants to 62 airports in 32 states across the United States as part of the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP).

By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: (CHEYENNE, Wyo.) - Last week at Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Bureau of Land Management, the Mantle Ranch Wild Horse Adoption and Training Facility, the Mustang Heritage Foundation, and Madison “Mustang Maddy" Shambaugh worked to show visitors from around the world the potential in every wild horse and burro.