News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will increase flows from Lucky Peak Dam on Monday and Tuesday, May 15 and 16.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Virginia woman, who conspired with others to commit wire fraud, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Strong City, KS - Come to Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve for the Memorial Day Weekend and enjoy three days of activities geared toward family fun and making memories. All activities are free of charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 19, 2017, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging ROBERT ABEL, 54, of St. Augustine, Florida, with one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of the Chicago Rush football franchise was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison for concealing debts in his personal bankruptcy case and overstating his net worth when acquiring the football team.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Laith Waleed Alebbini, 26, of Dayton, Ohio, with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Alebbini allegedly attempted to provide support in the form of personnel, namely himself, to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that AGUSTIN CIRINO, 29, of Hamden, has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with distributing fentanyl disguised as oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) Branch of Structural Fire has named Michael “Mike" Schell as the new operations program manager for the NPS Structural Fire Program, replacing Mark Gorman, who retired in 2016. In this position, Mike will lead and provide oversight for the NPS servicewide structural fire...
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: Thank you for your April 6th letter providing an update on the recent events surrounding the suspension of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Data Retrieval Tool (DRT), which allows students and parents to access and transfer the tax return information needed to complete...
By DOE Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Located on a deep, protected bay in southwest Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, Akutan is home to one of the largest fish processing plants in Alaska, located about a quarter-mile down the beach from the Village. Fishing is excellent in the waters around Akutan, and some of the largest halibut in the world have been caught in Akutan Pass on the west side of the island.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Angel Ruiz, 39, and Barbara Moses, 36, both of Buffalo, NY, were sentenced today, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., based upon their prior pleas of guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin. Specifically, Ruiz was sentenced to 72 months imprisonment, and Moses was sentenced to 9 months imprisonment for her role in assisting Ruiz.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a markup to advance legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) user fee programs, which...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Roswell, N.M. -- Calling all fourth graders to America’s public lands! Last year, to help engage and create the next generation of public land visitors, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) participated in the Every Kid in a Park program in partnership with other federal land management agencies. It was...
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Visitors to Chamizal National Memorial and passing motorists on Paisano Drive will notice that something is happening on the park grounds. The caution tape and construction equipment are part of a project to maintain the cement fence posts along the northwest corner of the park. These twenty-seven obelisks...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Toledo Resident Agency, the Toledo Metro Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Northwest Ohio Drug Task Force and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announce the arrest of two individuals for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and the seizure of approximately 39 kilograms of suspected cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Glenvert Green, age 25, of Washington D.C., was sentenced to 21 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann, for indecent exposure at the United States Penitentiary Allenwood where he was incarcerated in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 10, 2017heather Jean Reekr, Rodney Lee Crosby, Jr., a 35 year-old resident of Pisgah, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 27 months in prison following his conviction on one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney...
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say on Thursday following an executive order from President Trump to strengthen the federal government’s cybersecurity standards...
By US DOT Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), EPW member and Co-Chair of the Senate Oceans Caucus, held a public roundtable highlighting the current state of coastal infrastructure across the ...
