News from May 2017
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Murfreesboro, TN - Beginning Monday, May 22, the Stones River National Battlefield visitor center will open to the public at 9 a.m. and close at 5 p.m. daily. The gates to the tour road, Stones River National Cemetery, Redoubt Brannan, and McFadden Farm unit will continue to open at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Loyd: I am writing to request information about the ongoing relationship between Kellyanne Conway, who currently serves as Counselor to the President, and The Polling Company, Inc./ WomanTrend, which Ms. Conway founded in 1995. Based on public reports to date, it does not appear that Ms. Conway...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $266,000 contract on April 6 to T.L. Peterson, Inc. of Red Bluff, California, to pave a short segment of the Eden Harbor Road. The road is scheduled to be closed from May 15 until June 20.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Appearing on CNN’s “The Lead" with Jake Tapper on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded to new video that shows victims in the immediate aftermath of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime’s chemical weapons attack in Syria that provoked U.S. missile strikes authorized by President Donald Trump last month.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man who lived in his travel trailer was sentenced in federal court today for a counterfeiting scheme that victimized businesses across the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2017
Release: ATLA. NTIC CITY, N.J. - Safeguarding the public is what makes TSA officer Ralph Modugno proudest about his job. For the past seven years he has served as a transportation security officer at Atlantic City International Airport (ACY). Last week, while fulfilling his regular duty of keeping the public...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce Promised Citizenship to Members of Its “Migration Program" for a Price.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Rufus Seth Williams was indicted today on additional fraud charges stemming from his alleged use of political action committee (PAC) funds and official government vehicles for his personal benefit, Acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that a section of a tunnel used to store contaminated nuclear materials collapsed at the Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington...
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that a section of a tunnel used to store contaminated nuclear materials collapsed at the Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DENVER - As part of the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to prosecute sexual predators and protect innocent victims, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers are highlighting five recent child pornography cases that demonstrate both agencies’...
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that a section of a tunnel used to store contaminated nuclear materials collapsed at the Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial will open for the season Saturday, May 20. Put-in-Bay’s largest attraction has a full schedule of programs and events planned for 2017 despite the memorial column being inaccessible while it undergoes repairs. “We are giving the memorial...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Jill M. Evans, age 51, of Littleton, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 84 months (7 years) in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, FBI and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent a series of letters on Monday to pill distributors and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) following recent reports of extremely high amounts of opioids being distributed in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden...
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Scott Gottlieb as the next U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after the administration nominated two of three appointees to fill the vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service issued a prospectus Thursday, May 4, soliciting proposals for the award of a concession contract to provide interpretive river raft trips within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Proposals for the contract, which covers the 15-mile portion of the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, must be received by 4 p.m.Mountain Time on July 19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Fulton, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography after his lost cell phone, which contained images of child pornography, was turned in to law enforcement.
