News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Explore, Learn, Protect! Kids of all ages are welcome to come and learn at Junior Ranger 101 on June 24 at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore)! Families can take part in fun activities and learn the basics of being a Junior Ranger. Learn about lighthouses, NPS history, and animals, and do some solar viewing, ride a bike, and more! Complete the activities and earn your official Junior Ranger patch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ronald T. Showers, age 42, of Albany, was sentenced today to 54 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute heroin that caused the death of a 19-year-old woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 41-year-old Jacksonville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at 10 a.m. in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Defining and Mapping Broadband Coverage in America."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $32 million in funding for 16 projects as part of two new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programs: ENergy-efficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Datacenters (ENLITENED) and Power Nitride Doping Innovation Offers Devices Enabling SWITCHES (PNDIODES).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A local man has been ordered to federal prison for 50 years following his conviction of sexual exploitation of children and for knowingly making a false claim in the nature of preparing and filing a false tax return, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI) and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI. Benjamin Douglas Guidry pleaded guilty Sept. 29, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a “Legislative Hearing on S. 517, the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act." Below is the opening statement of Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, as prepared for delivery...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of J. Christopher Giancarlo to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRE CARTAGENA, 29, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 34 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Jesse B. Ingram, Jr. (35, Apopka) to 15 years and 5 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, attempting to possess with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on March 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Dale Pinkham, 57, of Buxton, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Portland to 20 years in prison following convictions for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Conspiracy to Possess Stolen Firearms and Attempted Witness Tampering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the attack on members of Congress, staff, and U.S. Capitol Police this morning...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WHITETHORN, Calif. - A free guided hike focused on forest recovery after wildfire is set for Saturday, June 24, in the King Range National Conservation Area on the California North Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: A Toledo man with a long criminal history was convicted by a jury of illegally having a firearm, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm today at the security screening checkpoint at Des Moines International Airport (DSM).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Nevada quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 5,760 acres of the 195,613.94 acres offered.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at 10 a.m. in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Defining and Mapping Broadband Coverage in America."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio late yesterday afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 46-year-old DTS Medical Supply Company (DTS) Office Manager/Medical Biller Kathleen Kelly-Tuorila to 17 years in federal prison for her role in an estimated $3.5 million Health Care Fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kristin M. Vargas, age 33, of Clifton Park, New York, was arraigned today on a 9-count indictment charging her with using and selling stolen social security numbers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) traveled to Southwest Virginia this weekend to tour mountaintop removal coal mining sites near the town of Big Stone Gap, Va., and to meet with residents of Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Tennessee who are directly affected by the destructive impacts of mountaintop removal mining.
