News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Roads in Yellowstone National Park will begin to close to oversnow travel the week of March 5. All oversnow travel will end for the season Wednesday, March 15, at 9 p.m. Spring plowing will begin after the roads close. Weather permitting, roads will likely reopen to automobile travel Friday, April 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Two Littlefield, Texas, men, Juan Carlos Lara-Ochoa and Jose Alberto Cibrian, were sentenced this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Union of the Comoros is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country consists of three islands-Grande Comore (also called Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuani), and Moheli (Mwali)-and claims a fourth, Mayotte (Maore), which France administers. In February 2015 successful legislative elections were held.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Timor-Leste is a multiparty, parliamentary republic. Following free, fair, and relatively peaceful elections in 2012, Taur Matan Ruak was elected president and head of state and Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao became prime minister of a three-party coalition government. In February 2015, Gusmao resigned and, in a peaceful transition, Dr. Rui Maria de Araujo of the opposition FRETILIN party (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor) became prime minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez, a/k/a “Shorty," was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain to spend the remainder of his life in prison for his role as a leader of a massive...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Burkina Faso is a constitutional republic led by an elected president. In November 2015 the country held peaceful and orderly presidential and legislative elections, marking a major milestone in the country’s transition to democracy. President Roch Mark Christian Kabore won with 53 percent of the popular...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led a governing coalition that included four smaller parties. In 2010 voters elected President Paul Kagame to a second seven-year term with 93 percent of the vote. Three other registered political...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: South Africa is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared among the executive, judiciary, and parliament branches. On Aug. 3, the country held largely free and fair municipal elections, in which the ruling African National Congress (ANC) received 53.9 percent of the...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Islamic Republic of Iran is a theocratic republic with a Shia Islamic political system based on “velayat-e faqih" (“guardianship of the jurist" or “rule by the jurisprudent"). Shia clergy, most notably the “Rahbar" (“supreme jurisprudent" or “supreme leader") and political leaders vetted by the clergy...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Madagascar is a constitutional democracy with a popularly elected president, a bicameral legislature (Senate and National Assembly), prime minister, and cabinet. The current president and National Assembly were elected in 2013, the first national elections after the 2009 coup against former president...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Colombia is a constitutional, multiparty republic. In June 2014 voters re-elected Juan Manuel Santos president in elections that observers considered free and fair. On Aug. 24, the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country’s largest guerrilla insurgency group, reached...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: On March 6-8, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning a prescribed burn within Otero County in southern New Mexico. Smoke may be visible, during and possibly for a few days, after the burn is conducted, depending on weather conditions. The prescribed burn is being conducted to reduce the risk of wildfire spreading to public lands and the Mescalero Reservation.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Cameroon is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. The country has a multiparty system of government, but the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) has remained in power since it was created in 1985. In practice the president retains the power to control legislation. In April 2013 the country...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and enjoys a high degree of autonomy, except in defense and foreign affairs, under the SAR’s constitution (the Basic Law). A 400-member Election Committee reelected Chief Executive, Fernando Chui Sai-On, in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Louis D. Lappen, Acting United States Attorney, announced the unsealing of a Forty-Two count indictment issued against Lawrence Jamieson, 57, of Malvern, PA, and John Brown, 25, of Norristown, PA. The pair was charged yesterday with enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct, manufacturing...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) is an authoritarian state led by the Kim family for more than 60 years. Shortly after Kim Jong-il’s death in late 2011, his son Kim Jong Un was named marshal of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army. Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, the late Kim Il-sung, remains “eternal president." The most recent national elections, held in 2014, were neither free nor fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Togo is a republic governed by President Faure Gnassingbe, whom voters re-elected in April 2015 in a process international observers characterized as generally free and fair. In 2013 the ruling UNIR (Unity) party won 62 of 91 seats in the National Assembly. International and national observers monitoring the election declared it generally free, fair, transparent, and peaceful, although there were logistical shortcomings.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Papua New Guinea is a constitutional, federal, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. Parliamentary elections took place in 2012, and local government elections occurred in 2013. In some parts of the country, electoral contests involved widespread violence, fraud, bribery, voter intimidation, and undue influence.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Belize is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. In November 2015 the United Democratic Party (UDP) won 19 of 31 seats in the House of Representatives following generally free and fair multiparty elections. Civilian authorities maintained effective control over the security forces.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Palm Beach County resident Frank Earle Noyes III was sentenced today to 384 months’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, after previously pleading guilty to the production of child pornography, in violation of Title, United States Code, Section 2251(a)(e) and enticing a minor to engage in an illegal sexual activity, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b).
