News from May 2017
By EPA Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) responded to President Donald Trump’s claims on CBS Face the Nation yesterday that the Trumpcare bill guarantees protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) responded to President Donald Trump’s claims on CBS Face the Nation yesterday that the Trumpcare bill guarantees protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Bayfield, WI - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 183,797 visitors to Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in 2016 spent $29,270,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 456 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $35,700,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man charged with fatally shootingMemphis Police Department Officer Sean Bolton has pled guilty to federal charges of armed carjacking and being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. The defendant, Tremaine Wilbourn, 31, has pending state charges for capital murder. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney announced the guilty plea today.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt's cancellation last week of a scheduled keynote speech at a May 5 Oklahoma Republican Party (OKGOP) gala, EPW Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) along with Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley ...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host two free public tours of the Indian Lakes Off-Range Wild Horse and Burro Corral in Fallon, Nevada, on Friday, May 12. Tour attendees will be taken as a group by wagon around the facility to learn about it, the animals, and BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a three count indictment charging Matthew S. Jones, 30, and Beau K.C. Jones, 32, both of Jamestown, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $10,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: On April 27, 2017, Charlton Tierry Blain, 30, and Clifford Raoul Blain, 29, both of Highlands County, Florida, were sentenced to federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Treasury Department through the filing of fraudulent federal income tax returns; conspiracy to commit access device fraud; and unlawful transfer, possession or use of a means of identification.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that an assistant bank manager in Tallulah was sentenced to eight months in prison for stealing more than $24,000 from customer accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the inclusion of a permanent extension of health benefits for coal miners, as well as a waiver to allow Robert Lighthizer to legally serve as U.S. Trade Representative, in the federal spending bill released today. Wyden secured a commitment from Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch to extend the miners’ benefits, as well as the Lighthizer waiver, as part of the spending bill...
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued a statement about the spending deal reached by bipartisan and bicameral leaders. The deal includes a number of committee priorities, namely additional resources for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as provided by the landmark 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Michael Riebe formerly Owned Holding Funeral Home in Russell County.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Los Alamos - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Management - Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) awarded a Requirements Contract, utilizing Fixed Price and Time and Materials Task Orders, to S&K Logistics LLC, a certified small business of St. Ignatius, Montana, to provide technical and business support services. The contract will have a maximum value of $17.4 million over five years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that an indictment has been unsealed charging Anthony Todd Weverka, age 54 of Arapahoe, Nebraska, with Misprision of Felony. The charge alleges Weverka knew of the existence of felony offenses, specifically Solicitation to Commit a Crime of Violence...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Matthew Faron Blair, 33, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to forcibly assaulting a federal contract security guard assigned to protect the Social Security Administration office in downtown Fresno, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after President Trump said that he would “certainly consider" raising the U.S. gas and diesel tax to fund infrastructure development as part of his tax plan released last week.
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Cotton farmers in Alabama who use cover crops have a new, cost-cutting option. They can kill their cover crops and plant their cotton in the same pass through a field, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man involved in heroin trafficking in 2015 and 2016 in the Huntington area was sentenced today to two years and three months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmy Cheatham, also known as “Shoe," 24, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant GEORGINA J. CAMACHO, age 30, was sentenced in District Court to a 12-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay a mandatory $200 assessment fee, restitution in the amount of $26,237.43 and 50 hours of community service.
