News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Luray, VA - Shenandoah National Park will waive entrance fees for all park visitors on Saturday, June 17 in celebration of Park Neighbor Day, an annual event held on the third Saturday of June to honor our neighbors who live in the counties and gateway communities surrounding the Park.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today announced it is investing $6.9 million in rare earth element (REE) research through two funding opportunities. DOE announced today that three projects have been selected to receive approximately $3 million for research aimed at producing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man who defrauded investors, renters, and a bank, and who attempted to illegally acquire a firearm, was sentenced today to 8 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MIGUEL TERRAZAS-ORDONEZ, age 40, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DENVER - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 10 parcels totaling 1,122 acres in Royal Gorge Field Office and the U.S. Forest Service’s Pawnee National Grassland at its September quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The BLM will hold the lease sale online via www.energynet.com.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price yesterday testified before the Senate Finance Committee to defend the drastic cuts in the President’s Budget and harmful changes in the American Health Care Act, or Trumpcare, repeatedly attempting to mislead members of the committee and at times outright lying about the effects of these policies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a New Iberia man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for sending threatening letters to government agencies across South Louisiana, including the governor’s office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Using two novel techniques, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time examined, with nanometer-scale precision, the variations in chemical composition and defects of widely used solar cells. The new techniques, which investigated a common type of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on June 8, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy Mannion sentenced Landy Then, age 25, of Pittson, Pennsylvania, to 18 months imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - As part of its mission to manage public lands for multiple uses, the Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment for public review that analyzes removing wild horses from areas outside the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area in northwestern Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a New Iberia man was sentenced to 33 months in prison for sending threatening letters to government agencies across South Louisiana, including the governor’s office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY FORBES, 35, of Allentown, Pa., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 228 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a violent kidnapping and jewelry store robbery in April 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Juan Salazar-Sanchez, aka “Mario Ayala Guzman" and “Manuel Barreto-Sanchez," 50, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 225 months in federal prison for his role in a heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admitted to Three Separate Crimes in Different Areas of District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ashley Herrera, 28, of Espanola, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 24-year-old woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following her conviction of the conspiracy to import methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Vanessa Hernandez pleaded guilty Sept. 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Steven Scudder, 62, of Centerville, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 14 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a fraudulent investment scheme. Scudder pleaded guilty to wire fraud on Jan. 19, and admitted that he used his position as an attorney to facilitate the fraudulent investment scheme operated by someone else.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Five men have been sentenced in connection with the February 2016 seizure of over one kilogram of fentanyl, announced David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
