News from May 2017
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Energy Secretary Rick Perry stressed the significance of DOE’s cleanup efforts in remarks to EM employees in recent visits to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Idaho Site and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017 - “Beauty and the Beast - The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young women who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Xavier Watson, 24, of Brentwood, New Hampshire, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 121 months in prison and three years of supervised release following convictions for robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Watson pleaded guilty to the charges on October 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Peter Allen Murphy, age 33, from Mullins, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Possession With Intent to Distribute and Distribution of Heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Accomplishing the EM mission at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) depends on accurate, defensible and easily-accessible data stored using methods that meet federal requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admitted Committing a Dozen Offenses Over 19 Months.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved 17 bills, including a number of regulatory reform bills, the Boots on the Border Act of 2017, a bill to authorize the Blue Campaign to combat human trafficking and the Fair Chance Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHHAY LIM, age 47, a citizen of Cambodia, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to possession of firearms by an alien present illegally and unlawfully in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. I’m very pleased to welcome Secretary Perdue to the Agriculture Committee. It took a while to get you here but it’s nice to see you’ve hit the ground running now that you’re at USDA. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we’re ready to work with you.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Edward Tororis Carter has been sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The defendant sold seven firearms to an undercover federal agent, including the twelve-gauge shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: 7-Eleven located at 5549 Belmont Road in Chesterfield.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MAY 17, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released a series of travel-related products to highlight travel data during peak tourist seasons. The Measuring the Impact of Tourism to Local Areas blog and graphic feature car rental establishments (limousines, passenger vans, etc.) and compares the number of establishments with its population.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation began increasing releases from the Aspinall Unit, consisting of Blue Mesa, Morrow Point, and Crystal reservoirs on the Gunnison River, on May 14, 2017. The increased release will attempt to meet flow targets on the Gunnison River, designed to benefit endangered fish species downstream while continuing to meet the congressionally authorized purposes of the Aspinall Unit.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MIAMI - EM’s robotics needs and opportunities were part of a broader discussion on integrating such systems into hazardous work environments at a two-day seminar earlier his month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Hector Espola, 30, was charged today in federal court in Worcester with possession of oxycodone with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jayquan Tomer, age 25, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2227, the Modernizing Government Technology Act of 2017 (MGT), sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Information Technology Subcommittee Chairman Will Hurd (R-TX).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland Heights woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leading a $8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy in which participants provided forged documents and fraudulent forms to bill for services that were not provided, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on May 16 and May 17, 2017, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Caseita Jenkins, age 39 of Fort Valley, Georgia, Jennifer Wilson, age 38 of Moultrie, Georgia, Tonyal Loud, age 38 of Moultrie, Georgia, and Oceana Pace, age 26 of Moultrie, Georgia, for their participation in a conspiracy to cash fraudulently obtained U.S. Treasury Checks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MAY 17 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Corey Senior, 26, of New Haven, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal...
