News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. Municipal and legislative elections held in March 2015 were generally free and fair. Election results were delayed, however, due to problems with the transmission, tabulation, and public dissemination of the vote count under the management of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Free and fair presidential elections took place 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: UTAH GANG INITIATIVE CASE EXAMPLES. U.S. v Jonah Robinson. Age: 18. Orem, UT. Robinson is charged with possession of a firearm/ammunition and possession of a stolen firearm in a two-count indictment returned March 1, 2017. Robinson, a self-proclaimed member of the Kearns Town Bloods, came to law enforcement’s...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Step back in time and make pie the 1860 way! On Saturday, March 25th, 2017, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will offer a 3-hour baking workshop, where participants will have the chance to bake and enjoy a slice of fresh fruit pie baked the 19th century way on a wood or coal burning stove.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of Latvia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. A unicameral parliament (Saeima) exercises legislative authority. Observers considered elections in 2014 for the 100-seat Saeima to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Swaziland is an absolute monarchy. King Mswati III and Queen Mother Ntombi, the king’s mother, rule as co-monarchs and exercise ultimate authority over the cabinet, legislature, and judiciary. There is a parliament consisting of appointed and elected members and a prime minister appointed by the king...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Kingdom of Belgium is a parliamentary democracy with a limited constitutional monarchy. The country is a federal state with several levels of government: national; regional (Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels); language community (Flemish, French, and German); provincial; and local. The Federal Council ...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Panama is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In May 2014 voters chose Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez as president in national elections that international and domestic observers considered generally free and fair. Varela assumed the presidency in July 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Bogalusa man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News 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: Equatorial Guinea is nominally a multiparty constitutional republic. Since a military coup in 1979, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has dominated all branches of government in collaboration with his clan and political party, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), which he founded in...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In 2015 citizens elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a four-year term in the first successful democratic transfer of power from a sitting president in the country’s history.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Angola is a constitutional republic. The ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) has been in power since independence in 1975. In August 2012, the government held the first presidential and legislative elections following the promulgation of the 2010 constitution. The MPLA received 71.8 percent of the vote, and in September 2012, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos began a five-year term as president under the new constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Mark McLeod Wygant, 46, of Chico, today to 10 years in prison for transportation of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Doctor and his Wife Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Russian Federation has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin. The bicameral Federal Assembly consists of a directly elected lower house (State Duma) and an appointed upper house (Federation Council), both of which lacked independence from the executive. State Duma elections during 2016 and the presidential election in 2012 were marked by accusations of government interference and manipulation of the electoral process.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
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
Release: Australia is a constitutional democracy with a freely elected federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair federal parliamentary election held in July, the Liberal Party and National Party coalition won a majority in the 150-seat House of Representatives and formed a government with Malcolm Turnbull as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Republic of Cyprus is a constitutional republic and multiparty presidential democracy. In 2013 voters elected President Nicos Anastasiades in free and fair elections. On May 22, voters elected 56 representatives to the 80-seat House of Representatives (Vouli Antiprosopon) in free and fair elections.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The body of a male visitor, approximately 45 years old, was discovered in Refrigerator Canyon along the West Rim Trail early Friday morning, March 3, 2017. Visitors hiking the trail came upon the body around 8:20 a.m. and called 911. It was reported that the individual was cold with...
