News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: A new avalanche beacon training park is located at Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park. This avalanche beacon park opened in January, and is designed for back country enthusiasts to practice simulated avalanche searches using their own beacons/transceivers and probes. The wireless beacon training park has eight transmitters/targets and can be setup for single or multiple scenarios.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeannette Knightner, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute; and to distribute; heroin within 1,000 feet of public housing authority property, was sentenced to time served by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 34-year-old federal prison guard has pleaded guilty to bribery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dover, Mass., pain management physician pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his scheme to defraud Medicare and other health care insurers, and then using the proceeds of his illegal activity to support his extravagant lifestyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GROSS WILLIAMS, age 49, and his wife, KATHLEEN WILLIAMS, age 47, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - The National Park Service will initiate an Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Educational Certificate program for ORV users that visit Cape Lookout National Seashore in 2017. The free ORV Educational Certificate identifies the top resource protection and safety measures that the park requires all ORV users adhere to while visiting North and South Core Banks.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today announced the approval of a $22 million coal lease on the Greens Hollow tract in central Utah to Canyon Fuel Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Bowie Resource Partners, LLC. Coal mining in the area currently supports nearly 1,700 mining and related jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington - The National Park Service has completed an inspection of the Japanese flowering cherry trees around the Tidal Basin this morning in the wake of bitter overnight temperatures. Horticulturalists examining the trees found widespread damage in blossoms that had reached “puffy white," the fifth...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on violations of the federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: In a Separate Case, Baltimore County Man Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse of a Minor to Produce Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Sanders, Cummings Investigate Unusual Circumstances Surrounding FDA Approval of Muscular Dystrophy Drug
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - On March 2, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), State, and DOE cleanup project management and staff from the DOE sites in EPA Region 4 - Oak Ridge, Paducah, and Savannah River Site - met at the Savannah River Site (SRS) at the invitation of Manager Jack Craig to discuss their common...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management reminds the public that trail closures protecting wildlife winter range surrounding Durango will remain in place through Apr. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Brian Christoffels, 35, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: A Canton man was indicted on crack cocaine trafficking charges, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Seven people from Cleveland were indicted in federal court for a conspiracy in which they stole nearly $750,000 worth of cell phones and other electronics from shopping malls and kiosks in several states, law enforcement officials said.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - On March 2, workers at DOE’s Idaho site celebrated the completion of transuranic waste retrieval activities at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project’s Transuranic Storage Area-Retrieval Enclosure (TSA-RE).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and full committee Vice Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), today sent a letter to Dr. Stephen Ostroff, Acting Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration regarding the ongoing heparin contamination crisis.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders today requested answers from the National Football League (NFL) and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regarding troubling allegations, made public in a March 9th Washington Post article, that personnel of NFL teams, including doctors and trainers, violated various federal laws for decades involving the use and transport of controlled substances and other prescription drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement after President Trump announced that the administration will be reviewing the fuel economy standards under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for motor vehicles. These rules were previously put forth by the Obama administration.
